| You can purchase a stock aquarium; there are some | | | | For example weirs could be fitted, holes drilled in the |
| great sizes and shapes. But what if you have an | | | | exact areas you want, inlets and outlets for closed |
| irregular sized corner or perhaps you are considering | | | | loops etc. My current aquarium was custom built and |
| having an in wall aquarium. In these instances you | | | | designed to be tall and deep but not long (46″ |
| either have to get a smaller aquarium for that corner | | | | * 26″ * 34″). It was designed with the |
| or design your system around a standard sized | | | | minimum amount of bracing so that the maximum |
| aquarium. There is another option. You could have a | | | | amount of light would enter the aquarium. It also had |
| custom aquarium built exactly to your specifications. | | | | four large holes drilled for the overflows at the time |
| A custom aquarium is more expensive than that of a | | | | of build. |
| standard size but that is to be expected. You are | | | | Two more examples were custom built the same |
| paying for a one-off, not a standard size. You | | | | time as mine. One of these is a cryptic zone tank |
| wouldn’t bother with a custom tank unless it | | | | and the other is the sump. The sump is split into |
| was large so the extra costs lessen as the tank | | | | several chambers for various aspects of filtration and |
| grows. For example a small 20 gallon custom tank | | | | nutrient removal. The cryptic zone is designed with |
| would cost double what a regular 20 gallon tank | | | | overflows and weirs. Of course a bit of do it yourself |
| would but a custom 200 gallon would be slightly more | | | | could have been performed and these could have |
| than a stock 200 gallon. | | | | been built personally, however I have to admit that I |
| Another aspect of a custom aquarium is that at the | | | | am not good with aquarium sealant. |
| time of building you can have extra’s fitted. | | | | |