Diy tank

[lobsterboy]

so the past few weeks i have thought about getting a tank for the kitchen, searching canreef, local buy and sell sites, LFS;s etc. looking for the perfect sized tank, and got nilch.
so while cleaning out the closet, i found a boat load of glass, and was like, i can build a tank, easy, get a glass cutter, some silicon, and bam new tank.

LOL, this is the build

the base



this triangle is very important









LOL, BOW TANK



CHECK THE BELEVELED EDGES, NOW THATS CRAFTMANSHIP,



so far, wait until the silconing starts LOL



hope you all find this as enternaing as me

[fragNplug]

Sweet, can i have one?

[Pazil]

Look'n good bye

[lobsterboy]

so i am walking around the apt bare foot telling myself to be careful before i get the vaccum to clean up and wham!!! i stuck something in my foot, and i go to check out the damage, and it was just a grain of dry rice, LOL.

anyways heres the first wall in place.

[fooser]

I want one too!!!! This is gonna be cool!

[ColinD]

I thought you had a kitchen tank?

Nice use of City Palate there John.

Colin

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by Pazil

Look'n good bye

still not sure what i am going to put in it.....

Originally Posted by fooser

I want one too!!!! This is gonna be cool!

Originally Posted by ColinD

I thought you had a kitchen tank?

Nice use of City Palate there John.

Colin

LOL, yeah that was a good read. The ol ten gallon is under the stand of the display.

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by fragNplug

Sweet, can i have one?

LOL, sure

[lobsterboy]

so here are some updates, got two more sides up and i will try and get another one up after work. then going to work on the over flow.

[Boomboy]

maybe i missed it, but why is there 2 pieces of glass siliconed together??? i am really enjoying you laugh about this, i think making tanks is so much fun. i think i will build my next one, but order the glass i tried to cut glass and failed.