16 FOOT AQUARIUM BUILD - Exposed Frame - The king of DIY 

The biggest aquarium RU-vidr and still builds everything himself. Legend.

The theme for this entire channel was done was summarized in one quote in this video- “you’re probably thinking , I can’t do this” and then Joey looks right at you through the camera “yes you can”. Good motivation!

Just watched, can believe I’ve been watching you 7 years.

"I just couldnt wait to put my wood in it" "I dont have as much wood as i thought I did" At the end of the day, every man thinks alike.

We all know this tank is done , running and stocked ...can't wait to see the complete tank ..good work Joey

My favorite parts are when I find myself taking a pause to think about the overall setup, and then I see Joey take a pause to think about the overall setup as well. I love this hobby!

Joey is also a motivational speaker “Oh I can’t do that” Joey: “Yes you can.”

Dimensions changed a bit. This will make sense in the next video!

I keep going back to watch your plywood tank builds from time to time. I love this builds. I’m working on my own plywood tank soon.

Don't worry about how often you upload Joey, we miss you while you're gone but we know you have a life outside of youtube. YOU actually helped me last night. I was at home depot trying to figure out what to put on top of my storage unit that's kind of more like a shed but the top is made of tarp and it's weather damaged so everything inside is now getting weather damaged. So I was trying to figure out what I can put on top of there and I thought of what you put on top of your 1000gal tank and now I have a plan. Haven't done it yet because I wanted to measure how much material I'm going to need so I'm probably going to do that today and get the supplies tomorrow. So thank you Joey for the extremely helpful tip! 😆

Awesome, can't wait for the next update. I'm curious how the blue epoxy will look...

This aquarium build is totally unique (in my experience) and I'm here for it! Nowhere else have I seen anyone making something like this.

Hello Joey, I love your videos and this 16 foot tank is amazing. I truly believe that if you added sand water fall and have it come down with moss with all of those community fish....this will probably be the most beautiful and creative community tank ever built.

would be a cool mangrove build

Awesome you referred to that 540g cube tank!! That was the very first videos I watched of yours!

The king of DIY, I really liked this video! I subscribed too!

I built a stand for my 5ft saltwater aquarium based on your designs using 2x4s. It's still going strong 5 years later 👍

Awsome build. Can’t wait to see the rest of it!

Team king and queen of DIY Love the tank Joey, that was my favourite tank you built back in the day you know that square one keep up the great work love all the videos you guys put out ❤see you guys on the next one

Best of luck with this wooden aquarium. It's quite the undertaking and most of us appreciate the amount of planning, and work, that you have put into it. Also a belated congratulations on your marriage. May it last forever. ❤❤😊😊😊

Can’t wait to see it finished! Keep it up Joey!💯💪🏼

Good build good ideas. Think I might make a smaller version. Can’t wait for the next one

Very interesting. Looking forward to seeing all the steps. Good Ol fashioned DIY videos. :) Thank you for sharing this.

The old plywood aquarium!!!!!! I never thought you’d mention that again. It was like a 6 part series an that’s when I first found you 😮

Looking Awesome Joey.

You make it sound so easy. I wouldn’t know where to begin. I’ll just leave it up to the professionals 😂.

Thank you very much for sharing and great information

This is literally the kind of aquarium I've been thinking about. In my case, I want a "river" for small/nano fish.

Enjoying the progress so far, stop taking so long. Fired Up!!!

Looks Great Joey!

Beautiful build man really love it

Super jealous!!! Absolutely love it!!!!!

Love it, can't wait to see the finished tank

For the top bracing I would consider using plywood. With outward pressure it won’t split like 2x10. You can also place double plywood with the top plywood a couple inches thinner so there’s a place to rest a lid

Wow that looks amazing ❤

Awesome video Joey thanks for sharing 👍 sending love ❤️ from IRELAND 🇮🇪

@kingofdiy structure looks great, it’s is exciting! Can’t wait to see this bad boy complete! Let me know when your ready to come to my house and help one of your fans build one in my garage 😀

Wow Joey that tank looks awesome!

This Tank is EPIC!!! AMAZING

Crazy build. I like the idea of a long aquarium. I considered a 12' glass tank at one point but stopped at 6'. I'd like to get a 10'+ tank at some point.

great vid joey

Can’t wait for this one

Looking forward to this build man

And I have that blue on my shop tanks that I brought it makes everything pop big time 😊

I could bot imagine going through all the changes you go through good for you! Once i have something its pretty set in stone 😂

I've been following your RU-vid since i was a teenager, im now 31😂 always look forward to new build videos! One of these days ill get around to building a giant plywood tabk of my own!

Awesome can’t wait ❤❤😂😂😂

JOEY THIS IS AWESOME YET AGAIN

Since this building is turning out to house permanent aquariums, you should build another building and call it the DIY building. That way you can set up tanks then tear them down all the time.

THIS IS WHAT I BEEN WAITING FOR

Yes sir looking good Joey I’m sure when it’s done it will be beautiful as all the stuff you do is 👏🏼🤙🏼👍🏻👍

This will be cool i was always a fan of long aquariums

can't wait to see it finished, i think nano fish was the right call for this one it'll make the tank look even bigger

Awaiting your fancy goldfish tank someday

Looking good

Love it bro

I can't help thinking what an awesome size reef tank this would be

I can't wait to see the tank finished

if you have the room on the end you can make a rock wall/waterfall that the filter runs up into them back into the tank :)

Joey, go get that plywood. I'm already excited for the next installment. Love and Peace.

I love new joey its like fever dreams building fish tanks

Beautiful aquarium 😊

That would look amazing as a huge dirt planted tank. With a ton of community fish.

I currently looking to do something like that thanks for your ideas

Congo tetra or community rainbows would look so cool swimming back and forth in this tank

I just hope to see larger schools of small species than we are used to seeing. Not 12 each, not even 24. 48+ each!😂 Just the whole length full of life!

Can't wait to see what AquaDecor does for this tank. 16-foot rollout background. 😮

(hoping for an axolotl someday) pretty awesome project youve got there Joey

I had built it like a ”mountain/reef ” and have Tropheus in it from Tanganyika. Had been awesome imho 😊

You should consider inserts if you ever need to place a divider for whatever the reason may be.

I can't wait to see what corys you choose to get

Are you going to do something like a bubble wall to help with water movement

Can you cooment on the bubble column. What stone are you using? That is a ton of bubbles!

Aquarium genius

Excited to see a community tank in that tank 🤩

Never mind not all of us got enough wood at birth hahahaha ❤just joking looks great joey can't wait to see this finished wow 😊

4:30 - Probably armor-piercing bullets would puncture it, but not go through. Just a foot of water is enough to stop regular bullets (the aquarium would be bust).

I've always been curious about building a tank like this. When considering overbuilding/over engineering the tank/design, is there any reason why you didn't use wood glue to laminate the wood? The wood glue bond would be stronger than any screw/bolt could ever be.

This is going to be an epic build Joey when you’re done. I really like the dimensions on it as it’s going to be easy to work on. Is your plan to keep it a certain biotope or just different schooling fish?

Finally!! I think Joe is making us wait purposely 😂

what about a long over the top sump like filter, with several outputs?

Can you please show more of the labor on the new 60 foot tank please.

How are you going to fix the acrylic to the tank? I’m in the process of doing a small 200g plywood and a 800g. Figure a smaller test run would be a good idea lol

Roseline shark as a schooling fish would be cool

I'm not sure but just wondering can you still put a placo in a tank like that or would it ruin the pain apoxi inside it or would it be ok

nice

Awesome video!!!!!!! I'm doing my research on having my first ever fish tank but also salt water. I want clown fish in my room!!!!

Do you not glue everything when youre putting it together?

for this nice community tank you need atleast 640 plant.. :) then the aquarium will be a natural tank.. and supports its self.. no outside filter needed all is inside.. :)

Do you use US gallons or Imperial gallons in Canada? Also, as far as incorrectly calculating the amount of gallons in an aquarium, this can have implications when having to medicate the tank for outbreaks of diseases etc.

What if you did an above the tank big filer and make a little stream the length of it

Unreal. Do snails and shrimp

man a huuuge school of rhummy noze would be amazing with there schooling habbit :)

Now we have to wait until July for another video

I used your initial playwood tank blueprint to build a reptile tank (shared on facebook years ago I think) - now I need to replace it and just like you - I overdid it lol ... I got NO idea how to take it apart again without brute force lol.

The tank is looking good you said you want to challenge yourselfI think it would be a good challenge to wrap the whole tank around the room in the L shape or in U shape I am sure how you would feel to that and keep flow in it

What size are the window panels going to be?

A large school of Diamond tetras may look good with the Ultim Angels. maybe black skirts too. Perhaps a few true Siamese Algae Eaters for a heavily planted tank for Algae control besides the Plecos.

Amazon swords & RT Lotus , if you put 3 - 5 ( a cluster of Amazon swords ) towards 1 side whatever corner of your best viewing angle but which corner should also have a pretty steep slope and that will have your Altums feeling better and then you will have the sweetest scape since T got waxed 😷

Can’t wait to see the schooling fish in something that big