Plywood Tanks

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by Jamie Cross

Rasta, Thanks again, I appreciate you taking the time to help answer the questions. As I'm sure you have figured out I'm thinking of biulding one myself. You don't have say a rough total project cost do you? Also how long has the tank been up and running?

Depends on how big you go for cost ( mine was built 5 yrs ago so prices have gone up since then for wood and have not looked at the epoxy in that time either ) ... I think mine cost about 600 beans at the time I built it including stand and almost half of that was the front glass ( call local glass manufacturers as some will sell direct to you )

I took it offline for almost a year and a half and moved everything into the sump and the 50G ( live rock caused a leak in back panel so that is when I decided to make a arogrocrete wall around the perimeter ) ...

If you are serious about building one Jamie then the 3 most expensive components are ... 1) the front glass 2) West Systems epoxy ( the best IMO ) 3) the plywood

A few phone calls will give you a good idea what your project will cost today ... my only advice is the epoxy is no place to skimp and after hours of research I found West Systems to be the best ( local boat store should carry it )

Cheers