my 104.72G Shallow Lagoon

lastlight · #1 12-18-2009, 03:44 PM

Who cut your glass?

I'm considering building mine as well...having learned a few lessons with the sump builds.

Look forward to seeing more =)

I'm still tossing sizes around but my aim is in the 106G ballpark. Want it to truly be a paradise ya know?

kien · #2 12-18-2009, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by JDigital

If you need any 3/4" or 1" Sch 40 PVC, shoot me a PM.. I got a few feet of each left over you can have. I even have a 5x3 stand you could have, if you wanted to trim a foot off...

sweet I may take you up on that offer! Are you around this weekend?

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Who cut your glass?

I would rather not say in public.. I'll shoot you a PM.

JDigital · #3 12-18-2009, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

sweet I may take you up on that offer! Are you around this weekend?

I actually leave town tomorrow morning at 9, and not back till the 29th.

kien · #4 12-18-2009, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by JDigital

I actually leave town tomorrow morning at 9, and not back till the 29th.

d'oh! Well, have a great trip :-) I'm hoping the tank will be done by the 31st. After that I'm off to Mexico for a week and then back to work and if the tank isn't done by then, then it will be a new entrant into the slowest build contest..

JDigital · #5 12-30-2009, 04:53 PM

Tank looks awesome kien! Good job on it.

fishytime · #6 12-30-2009, 05:30 PM

So Santa left you a tank on X-mas eve? Looks great man....did you let the silicone set before you pulled the tape?

kien · #7 12-30-2009, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

So Santa left you a tank on X-mas eve? Looks great man....did you let the silicone set before you pulled the tape?

Ya, I guess Santa was busy building a tank that night but couldn't be bothered to stuff it under the tree :-)

I tried to remove some of the tape before the silicone fully dried but that was a mistake. Even after scoring the silicone along the tape edge I found that it sometimes tended to lift a bit. I decided to leave the tape until the next day and it the removal worked out a lot better.

K.

Delphinus · #8 12-18-2009, 04:51 PM

What maniac suggested you build your own tank man?

Don't listen to him.

Oops, I mean.. subscribed ..

kien · #9 12-18-2009, 04:57 PM

This guy at work gave me the idea. Said it would be easy as pie. He also tried to convince me that I should build the whole lighting system from scratch.. I'm starting to think that maybe he's a little loopy..

lastlight · #10 12-18-2009, 07:53 PM

clean them with acetone, tape around your seams, clean the to-be siliconed areas once more quick and toss it together.

Wear an old shirt. Somehow I ruined 4 shirts building 2 tanks. The math doesn't add up! Next time I just want to build some jigs to hold things together better since i had panes sliding around on me and made what should have been pretty easy and very clean into a nightmare.

I'm actually pretty stoked to try again. Basement tanks are the BOMB. Murphy has a little less power down there in the dungeon =)