Fusing two ten gallon aquariums together?

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I have two old ten gallon glass tanks and I want to have a newt tank.

So I'm looking at them and suddenly it hits me: what if I removed the side glass panels, precision cut the corners of the plastic frames, and used copious amounts of silicone to "weld" the two tanks together, creating one long tank, or a big square tank? (Kind of like how I just used many commas to splice together that long sentence.) :idea:

Since it won't be holding much water, and I'm thinking I might use one of the removed panes to reinforce the bottom center link, I believe this hairbrained scheme might actually be less insane than it first appears.

Any insights? (You can tell me honestly if it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I don't mind being called out if I'm thinking idiotic thoughts.)
 
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Well not that this will be very helpful but...
i've seen 2 10G being put together as an aquarium in another forum. It was arranged as the "square".

EDIT: I also remember the person stated what a HUGE PITA it was to get the plastic frames off and basically because of that he'd never do it again. Besides that it appeared to have worked fine.
 
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silicone joints only work on corners. You'd never get an open-field glass butt joint to have any strength. Under any pressure, it would either blow out or separate.

It might make a good long terrarium, but don't expect it to hold water.
 
Yeah, that guy got new one-piece panes for the sides that went together. No reason that wouldn't work, but if you were just going to run a silicone bead down a straight joint where the tanks met, that would not hold water.
 
sploke said:
.... but if you were just going to run a silicone bead down a straight joint where the tanks met, that would not hold water.
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it wouldn't be very appealing to the eye either, I'm guessing.
 
sploke said:
Yeah, that guy got new one-piece panes for the sides that went together. No reason that wouldn't work, but if you were just going to run a silicone bead down a straight joint where the tanks met, that would not hold water.
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Agreed. I originally thought he was talking about fusing together two pieces of glass. This big square tank is pretty cool. It would be neat for a room where you can walk on all sides of it.
 
sounds interesting, as your building it take lots of pics, most of us are closet photo *****s :)


now, making it a long tank you would have problems, making a square as in the link it will work np, but are you going to replace the bottom sheets with one larger one or use the ones provided and use the smaller end peices and a lot of silicon to 'reinforce' the bottom ?
 
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