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Tank rebuild (attempt 3)
so as some know, i recently drilled my tank, put a corner overflow in, plumbed it all in, painted the back of the tank black and then shattered it moving it into the house
so i started over with a tank i had laying around, a leaky tank, with ugly trim i started out by pulling the trim off to realize that the tank was made out of 3/8 instead of 1/4 like the one i broke which worked out perfectly because it has no center brace like i wanted and it has all polished edges after pulling the corner overflow out of my 55 i realized the tank i was dealing with was not a 55, it is a 50 so my corner overflow doesnt work on it (ps if anyone wants to by a plastic corner overflow let me know) so ive decided to go with the same style overflow as i did on my 100g freshwater tank heres a pic of the overflow on my freshwater, the box is 6'' x 6'' x i dunno tall http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10814-2059.jpg old corner overflow (for sale, cheep cheep) http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10918-1721.jpg pile of broken tempered glass after trying 5 different pieces trying to make my corner overflowhttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10918-1719.jpg tank pulled apart after drilling to be resealed with black silicone http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10918-1719.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10918-1718.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10918-1717.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10918-1717.jpg biocube i bought after breaking the tank last night... paid 150 and it came with 3 korilias, phosban reactor, and alot more goodies unfortunately my biocube skimmer doesnt fit in it http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10917-2226.jpg tank before i broke it after being emptied of livestock http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10916-1908.jpg sand for new tankhttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10916-1909.jpg balasts, dual 400w mh i plan to put one on the 55 and one on my 72http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...10824-2134.jpg |
TRY NORMAL GLASS NEXT TIME AS YOU CANT CUT TEMPERED GLASS and it should all be good
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