That's a lot of work! So, where's the water? :lol:

Fyi, the top drywall piece is supposed to be installed first. It would have been easier. :p

Piece by piece, this build is coming together.

This past week has been pretty productive. I went and watched my glass get cut for the new starfire front and the frag tank. I got a 143"x48" piece of 19mm starfire and had enough to build all but the back pane of the frag tank.

Inspired by that, I came straight home and finished off the back stand/counter top. That only took a day, thankfully and my lovely girlfriend hit them with 3 coats of Kilz Premium while my brother, dad and I scraped silicone from the old glass.

We took Brett's 404 apart months ago and moved it to my place, but as always, I left the cleaning until the last minute. Cleaning the silicone off was a PITA. I will not ever do that again. To those of you that haven't tried, and don't learn well from others mistakes, I strongly suggest using Methyl Hydrate to help soften the silicone once the majority has been scraped off. I also suggest roping everyone in that owes you even the slightest favor. Without the help of my family, I would have been up all night. Instead I was up until 2AM and again at 6AM to get done for the build at 8AM.

Long story short.... Buy new glass.

The hard work of everyone paid off. Here is how things look presently:


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And somewhere amid the chaos of the stand build, glass clean and tank build, Christine and I drove to Wetaskawin and picked out our new puppy!

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*Normally when I 'Preview Post' I am able to view my photos. I can't this time. I hope it works.... as the first post on this thread says "This is my first aquarium build and my first thread". Still learning both.

Pics arnt workin. But glad you are making some progress!

Yeah. I have 0 idea why they aren't working. I just copy and paste that BBCode from Flickr. That is already more than I know a out the situation!

Wish I could get the pics out.

Maybe they'll work later?

Yeah weird.. now I see two of them. Lol. Maybe they will all work in a little bit.

Looking good :-)

I've never used flickr's BBCode so I don't know much about it, but maybe stick to using the image link in flickr (by copying it) and pasting it into the image code icon to embed images like you did previously.

that is unless you were using the BBCode thing before and it worked. In which case they must've changed the BBCode ? I dunno.. :-)

I can see all the pics things look awesome! Too bad your family isn't going to answer any calls from you for a while lol.

Cute puppy!

The tank build looks good. Hard to believe this is your first aquarium! :lol:

Love the progression photos!! Everything is looking awesome ,cant wait to see the rockwork :D