New tank stand

clownchick22 · #1 01-17-2005, 10:16 PM

Hi All,

Well, I have learned alot in the past two months while researching my new hobbie. I've been reading the two books that I have bought: "Natural Reef Aquariums" by John H. Tullock and "The Conscientious Marine Aquarist" by Robert M. Fenner. These are two amazing books. Also, all the help I've had with people on this site and others, thank you everyone for all of your advice

I have pretty much all of my equipment for now for my 66Gal reef, and will be ordering the rest next week. This week, we finished the tank stand. It's nice to see it finally comming together. I am going to go with the "Berlin" method for filtration with skimmer and a Sump setup will be added this summer. I want to get a more hands on feel for how all the other equipment works first.
All in all, I'm taking my time, and will definately have more "interesting" pics with LR and fish soon !

Here is the stand upon completion yesterday. Made of 2x4 framing, oak plywood, painted satin black and opal finish fixtures for the doors.

And the stand with tank on it. Painted the back blue.

Any suggestions, please let me know !

...(sorry for the fuzzy pics, digital was set on max pic memory/low resolution)

Nemo · #2 01-18-2005, 12:44 AM

Very nice

Murminator · #3 01-18-2005, 01:23 AM

Very nice stand can we get a pic of the inside of it to see the craftsmanship

Skimmerking · #4 01-18-2005, 02:20 AM

Not bad there Randi, Looks really good it has the same look of color to my tank and stand, I went with a black back ground it rally makes the tank stand out and really has the finished look too.

mike

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #5 01-18-2005, 05:09 AM

Nice

Smart way to go, by doing it slow and learning ahead of time. Should save you lots of $$ & headaches later on.

Welcome to CanReef.

Anthony

chrisd · #6 01-22-2005, 07:57 PM

That's a nice stand. I'm from Saint John as well....been living out in Calgary for the past 3 years now. I didn't realize until I moved out here that there was so much variety for saltwater. I used to buy my stuff from a place just over across the causeway on the east side but I think that place closed a number of years ago. Other than that I can only think of a place or two in Fredericton that overcharge for their livestock. I can remember a guy selling ocellaris clowns for $40.00 a piece ...and that was a good price. I don't have a lot in my tank right now but I do have a number of zoos that I got from fish and some other stuff that if I can frag at a later date I'll send out to you.

chris

clownchick22 · #7 01-23-2005, 03:43 AM

The tank seems to be leaking!

We have had water and sand in it for a week and it seemed ok, but since adding the salt 2 days ago there was a bit of salt/water leakage on the side. I had bought the tank second hand from a guy that works at the pet store. I had even re-calked it myself over with 100% Silicone.
I've cleaned the tank where I spotted the possible leak... and put a paper towel there to be able to tell... so I am going to check again in the morning to see if there is anymore leakage...
I'm so frustrated! I was going to buy my live rock this week, but now it looks like I might be saving for a new tank and have to re-build another stand!

Reefhawk1 · #8 01-23-2005, 04:48 AM

Well that sucks you have a leak. Are you sure you can't seal that area with silicone? Or is it an actual crack in the glass.

Willow · #9 01-23-2005, 05:39 AM

silicone won't stick to silicone... bad news is either you pull the entire tank apart clean all the seams and reglue it or find a new tank.

sorry i just went thru the same thing with a sump. turns out that it's way easier to build a new sump than repair an old one.

G1GY · #10 01-23-2005, 07:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Willow

silicone won't stick to silicone... bad news is either you pull the entire tank apart clean all the seams and reglue it or find a new tank.

You don't have to pull the whole tank apart!

You can cut all the silicone off with a sharp razor, clean the glass realy well and just re-silicone it from the inside. DONE!

I know that someones going to tell me this is not a good way to fix it, but I've re-siliconed many tanks in the past with no problems.

When you return a brand new tank because it leaks, what do you think they do?

If you guessed that cut it apart to fix it you guessed wrong.

Small cheap ones go in the dumpster(They just save the plastic frame.), and the larger more expensive ones get fixed this way.