150 wood and glass tank build thread

[ITHURTZ]

hahaha RIP camera. Any time date for when the acrylic build goes up or you gonna take a nice vacation from building for a bit?

 

[Grins]

Sorry you have had such troubles with the build Scoot

 

[scootrnerd]

"without failure you cant appreciate victory"

 

[scootrnerd]

hahaha RIP camera. Any time date for when the acrylic build goes up or you gonna take a nice vacation from building for a bit?

well with it being baseball and softball season (my son and daughter both play) and only having the one truck( car was stolen)which my wife drives 90% of the time its kinda hard to get to lowes or any other place and bring back sheets of acrylic. what really sucks is i get my quarterly bonus this Friday and i have to use it to get another work car. man i could build an awesome tank with that money,$1500.00 or i could use my tax return. oh wait i pay taxes, crap that wont work hmmmmmmm walk to work and have nice big tank or drive to work and wait until next quarter? i have even stopped building refugiums until i get another ride so i am just ganna have to wait. but you can bet i will share the build good or bad with all :grinyes:

 

[7faces]

i know your discouraged, but id seriously reconsider the plywood thing...
since it was actually able to be taken apart, im guessing you didnt liquid nail the joints.... and i would skip the fiberglass part... i dont think id try to salvage the wood...

but.... 60.00 for wood.... 100.00 for epoxy, and 120.00 for glass (+shipping)
thats still alot cheaper than buying enough acrylic to do it..

the epoxy i used sticks like mad to wood. I pryed a piece of my overspill off of some plywood, and it took wood with it (see my last post for link)

i considered acrylic, but home improvement stores (around here) do not carry anything near thick enough to build an aquarium from..
for a 24x24x72 aquarium, youd need 1/2 inch thick acrylic. $277.72 for a 4x8 sheet +shipping and for an aquarium of this size, youd need more than 1 sheet... but it really depends on how big ya wanna go...

these guys have good acrylic prices:

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/pr...ory_name=21314&product_id=10477&cookie_test=1

for thickness recomendations check out this calculator under the DIY section
http://www.garf.org/

ill post some pics of mine (if it doesnt leak) after the glass install lol

 

[scootrnerd]

well i can get 4x8X1/2 sheets locally for 217.00 no shipping. and the main reason i built this from wood was i already had the glass so i was only in 100.00 really. not including the camera


:wall:

 

[ITHURTZ]

Ya I would just go acrylic. If it leaks you just drain it and add some more glue.

 

[ryry123]

i know you probably like to DIY but my 180 gallon acrylic aquarium, i got off craigslist for 200 bucks. just a few small scratches i buffed out.

 

[scootrnerd]

i know you probably like to DIY but my 180 gallon acrylic aquarium, i got off craigslist for 200 bucks. just a few small scratches i buffed out.

i check CL daily LMAO i wish i could find such a deal!

 

[ryry123]

well i hope you can to and i hope all your future plans go alot better than your plywood tank that i thought was going to be very good as i scrolled throught untill it leaked.