Local 150 acrylic tank & stand & all accessories $100

Seek and ye shall find right? Well I found some inspiration in AC's back yard at Monsterfish. If this guy can conquer his acrylic tank repair that was considered hopeless surely there is hope for me following his buffing techniques. I just have to get the breakdown on what he exactly used and exactly how.

All in all pretty inspiring for those with a separated acrylic or cracked tank, not to mention the sanding and polishing results.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47496
 
Thanks so much BettaMommy for your kind words, I cant wait to get started and see the finished results myself.

Quick question for anyone before I'm headed off to Sunday services this morn, I cant imagine using the underground filter but I was thinking would it double as a good alternative to egg-crate and if so is it worth running or will it not work in course or fine sand? Last time I used on was 1972 and cant remember if it worked for me or not LOL.

Rather then tossing it maybe its still useful to someone else, what do you think and why the big humps in the grate?
 
The large humps gave it more strength as compared to a regular flat plate and supposedly more surface area to cut slots/holes for water flow. It would serve the same function as egg crate to support rock work if you leave it in. If the substrate falls thru the slots, it would be unusable as an UGF/RUGF.
 
but wouldn't using that ugf plate create a void underneath that could possibly become a bad bacteria hot spot? with egg crate, the substrate goes down between the squares and fills up the space.
 
You know on my 244 tank I couldn't find egg-crate anywhere Lowes & HD helpers looked at me like I was asking for something in the supermarket, never having actually seen what it looked like. They showd me carpet padding and mattress foam pads. When I told them I heard it was used in florescent lighting they really looked at me like I was touched.

Finally last week while gathering supplies for my Fluval 404 conversion, a lady in tools led me right to it, a hard white plastic 1/2" plastic grid sheet 24"x48" for about $15. But since I have already had success laying individual rock on top of scissor cut rubber padding I dont feel I have a need now to buy such a pricey big piece.

I'm not into the underground filter so if anyone wants to pay shipping ill be willing to box it up and see what USPS or UPS wants, or maybe someone local here in BHC, AZ can stop and get it, or in the trash it will go next week.
 
I ran into the same problem when I was working on a false bottom for a vivarium project. Finally found it in the drop ceiling department. Silly me looking for a light diffuser in the lighting department.

Ok, now for the really dumb question..........I feel like a tool here........why put rocks on top of egg crate or rubber padding? I havn't done any large rockwork yet, but I would have just set them on top of the substrate. Somehow, I'm feeling I would have been in for a surprise.
 
If you have sand like I do although its a great base and cushion for heavy rock and glass stones that can place pressure points on the glass, that sand can be easily moved by Cichlids who love to undermine that base by removing that sand and spitting it some where else. Those heavy stones with their hard pressure points now come to rest against the glass or can tip over if tall hitting a side panel but mostly waiting for seismic activity to vibrate them against that bottom glass panel at high or low frequency so that the stone is literally bouncing off the bottom glass panel like a 10 to 20 pound sledge hammer. One stone might not break the glass but 5 or 10 all at once probubly would. So its just insurance.

And of course in the case of live rocks of SW reef tanks with hundreds of pounds of stones the Egg-crate disperses the waight more evenly from just one corner or one side easing the load on the bottom panel..
 
Well after doing allot of research I decided to order the polishing kit and with my drill gun and buffing wheel hope to get it looking like new. I was warned that for saltwater use (which I am not), only the outside can be polished out as the inside would not wok due to chemicals in the salt whatever that meant.

As soon as this 3 part 8oz kit arrives Ill be starting. Ill also be restoring the cabinet by strengthening with 1 X 2"'s, stain and polyurethane. I may also have to do some cabinet door work as again the openings are small. I don't know what these aquarium cabinet makers were thinking when they installed 9" doors.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NOVUS-Plastic-S...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5ad3d41eaa
 
gunner i have though the same thing about alot of the things i've seen with the mass produced cabinets. hell i had one where instead of insetting the hinges into the door thay just bent the hinge so it was flush with the cabinet. i found this out when i replaced it with the exact same hinge just not bent. good lick with this should be funn (but i have a twisted sense of fun lol) expect updates when you get to polishing it and reinforcing the stand.
 
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