The Snyder Industries 2500 Gallon Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank (SKU 5110000N51) is built for full-drain chemical batching and dosing where you need every gallon to evacuate. Molded from high density linear polyethylene in black, it carries a 1.9 specific gravity rating - the heavy-duty band that lets you run dense process chemistry that lighter 1.5-SG cone tanks cannot safely hold. The cone bottom geometry is the whole point: it drains to the tip so solids and residual product clear instead of settling, which is why this is a true cone bottom tank rather than a flat-floor vertical.
Will it work for your application
This tank holds 2500 gallons and stands 125 inches tall on a 90 x 90 inch footprint, so plan vertical clearance and a properly engineered stand before delivery. Filled with water it weighs about 20,850 lb, and at the full 1.9-SG rating it can carry up to 39,615 lb of contents - roughly a 20,000 lb spread between water-full and fully loaded that drives both your foundation design and your offload plan, so size your stand, slab, anchoring, and rigging or forklift/crane capacity to that loaded figure, not the empty shell. Factory fittings on this model include a flange outlet, an 18-inch PE threaded/vented fitting, and a manway with 15-inch clear access for inspection and cleaning - confirm your cleaning tooling and entry fit through that 15-inch opening. Verify the exact port locations and elevations against the technical drawing on this page so your plumbing and ladder/platform access line up before you set it. Because a cone tank carries its load on a stand, use the Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide to confirm the support package, and review the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix for Snyder stand pairing. For the 2500-gallon class specifically, the 15-degree and 30-degree with poly stand buyer's guides walk through the trade-offs.
Chemical compatibility
This is an HDLPE tank rated to 1.9 specific gravity, the top heavy-duty band in this data, so it has the structural margin for dense chemistry that lighter tanks cannot hold. Compatibility always depends on the resin, the chemical concentration, the temperature, and the fitting and gasket materials at every port - match all of them. Verified-compatible chemistries for this resin and SG rating include acetic acid at 60% (PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets), aluminum sulfate at 50%, calcium chloride at 40%, and magnesium chloride at 30% (PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets), DEF at 32.5% (316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets) and urea solution at 50% (PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets), ethylene glycol at 100%, ferric chloride at 50%, ferric sulfate at 60%, ferrous sulfate at 20%, sodium carbonate at 30%, sodium thiosulfate at 40%, potassium carbonate at 50%, potassium hydroxide saturated, and polyaluminum chloride (PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets). For oxidizers and strong acids the gasket changes to Viton: hydrochloric acid at 37% (PVC fittings), hydrofluoric acid at 48% (PP/PVC fittings), hydrofluosilicic acid at 26% (PP/PVC fittings), hydrogen peroxide at 50% (PVC fittings), phosphoric acid at 85% (PVC fittings), and sodium hypochlorite below 16.5% (PVC fittings, Viton gaskets), with sulfuric acid at 98% requiring CPVC fittings and Viton. Peracetic acid at 30% needs 316SS fittings and Aflas gaskets. Propylene glycol (PP/316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets), sodium bisulfate (PVC/PP fittings, EPDM gaskets), sodium bisulfite (PVC/PP fittings, EPDM gaskets), zinc orthophosphate (PP/316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets), and ozonated water up to 10 PPM (PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets, detailed in the general database below) are also listed compatible at their specified fitting and gasket materials. Confirm every chemical against the OEM chemical-resistance chart at the exact concentration and temperature you will run, and use our Chemical Compatibility Database for the per-chemical detail.
The mistake to avoid
The most common and most expensive error on a 2500-gallon cone tank is matching the gasket to the resin instead of the chemical. The HDLPE shell at 1.9 SG handles the chemistries above, but the wrong elastomer at a fitting fails first - EPDM is correct for the salts, glycols, and DEF, but oxidizers and strong acids like sodium hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric, phosphoric, and sulfuric acid require Viton (or CPVC/Aflas where noted), and a default EPDM seal will swell and leak. Watch the wetted metal too: DEF at 32.5% and peracetic acid both call for 316SS fittings rather than the PVC default, and DEF in particular wants stainless at the port to protect fluid purity. The second mistake is sizing the stand to the empty tank: at the full 1.9-SG rating the loaded weight is 39,615 lb, so your stand and foundation must be engineered to that number. If your service runs hotter than ambient or at a concentration not shown, verify it before you order.
This tank ships LTL freight from the Snyder plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, quoted live to your ZIP - get your number with the Freight Cost Estimator or call 866-418-1777. For containment requirements, see how Snyder's Captor Plus 110% containment compares to UL-142 and SPCC. Listed at the price shown before freight.
