The Snyder Industries 5000 Gallon Cone Bottom Tank is a full-drain vessel built for bulk chemical batching, dosing, and complete-discharge service where you cannot leave product sitting on a flat floor. It holds 5,000 gallons in a Natural White polyethylene body and carries a 1.7 specific gravity rating - meaning the resin wall is engineered to hold liquids up to 1.7 times the weight of water. That rating is the single most important number on this page, and it is what separates this tank from a standard water-grade cone bottom.
Siting specs - check the fit before you order
- Overall height (incl. cone): 166 in - confirm door, ceiling, and stand clearance
- Footprint: 102 x 102 in - the slab and stand base must accommodate this
- Empty vs. loaded: filled with plain water the contents alone weigh 41,700 lb; at the full 1.7 SG rating the tank is rated to carry up to 70,890 lb of contents
Will it work for your application?
This is a true cone bottom tank, so it self-drains to the apex and avoids the settled-solids and dead-volume problems that plague flat-bottom storage - the reason buyers searching cone bottom tank and cone tank specifically choose this geometry. At 5,000 gallons the math has to be respected: a cone bottom tank of this size is never free-standing. It must sit in a matched steel or poly stand rated for the full loaded weight, and the stand legs and anchor points carry that entire load. Size the stand and the slab to the rated contents weight, not to the water weight. If you are still confirming volume and turnover for your process, run the numbers through our Tank Sizing Calculator and review the Tank Sizing Guide before you commit, and check stand pairing against our cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix.
Chemical compatibility
This tank is molded in HDLPE at a 1.7 specific gravity rating. Because the resin designation carries a question mark in our records, confirm HDLPE versus XLPE with us before you commit to chemical service - the resin choice changes how the wall behaves under specific chemistries, and we will verify it for your exact unit. Within the 1.7 SG rating, this tank is suited to the following chemicals at the concentrations and fitting/gasket pairings shown, per the OEM chemical-resistance chart, which is concentration- and temperature-specific:
- Acetic Acid at 60% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
- Aluminum Sulfate at 50% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
- Calcium Chloride at 40% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
- DEF at 32.5% - 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets. DEF requires 316SS wetted metal, not brass or carbon steel - this is the most common DEF fitting mistake
- Ferrous Sulfate at 20% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
- Magnesium Chloride at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
- Sodium Carbonate at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
- Urea Solution at 50% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
- Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets (reference the OEM chart for this one)
Always match the gasket and fitting material to the chemical, not just the tank: every chemical above pairs with a specific fitting and gasket spec, and a mismatched gasket fails long before the tank does. The full Chemical Compatibility Database carries the concentration- and temperature-specific detail for each.
One mistake to avoid: matching the tank SG to your chemical
The most common and most expensive error on a 1.7 SG cone bottom tank is loading a denser chemical than the wall is rated for. Several common chemicals are heavier than 1.7 SG and require a 1.9 SG tank instead - including Ethylene Glycol, Ferric Chloride, Ferric Sulfate, Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrofluoric Acid, Hydrofluosilicic Acid, Hydrogen Peroxide, Peracetic Acid, Phosphoric Acid, Polyaluminum Chloride, Potassium Carbonate, Potassium Hydroxide, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Bisulfate, Sodium Bisulfite, Sodium Hypochlorite, Sodium Thiosulfate, Sulfuric Acid, and Zinc Orthophosphate. The gasket also changes with the chemistry: Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrofluoric Acid, Hydrofluosilicic Acid, Hydrogen Peroxide, Phosphoric Acid, and Sodium Hypochlorite all call for Viton rather than EPDM; Sulfuric Acid specifically needs CPVC fittings with Viton; and Peracetic Acid needs 316SS fittings with Aflas. If your application is any of these, do not order this 1.7 SG unit - call us at 866-418-1777 and we will match you to the correct higher-SG cone bottom tank. For monitoring on aggressive service, see our guide on tank level gauge selection for chemical service, and for hazard labeling review tank label and signage compliance for bulk polyethylene storage. If you need secondary containment, compare approaches in our Snyder Captor Plus 110% containment vs UL-142 guide. Verify the exact fitting layout against the technical drawing on this page.
This 5,000 gallon Snyder cone bottom tank ships LTL freight from the Snyder plant in Marked Tree, Arkansas, on its own truck given the size and rated weight. Freight is quoted live to your ZIP - get an instant number from our Freight Cost Estimator or call 866-418-1777 to lock in delivery and confirm resin and SG for your chemical before you order.
