Dyspnea's 120g tank build

[Dyspnea]

Pick up where I left off...

Sump building time!

The sump that came with my purchase as I mentioned in a previous post was far to large. It nearly consumed the entire stand.



In order to make room for the closed loop pump, i figured i needed about 12 inches more of room.

In order to keep the cost of this build down, I completely disassembled the sump, into its various piece, and spent endless time and razor blade scraping silcone. Since the glass was only approx 6mm thick I figured i could get by without any special tools.

I scored the side pieces and cut thme perfectly to the length i needed. THe bottom panel had to be different it was thicker glass (approx 8mm). I scored the glass and when I snapped the panel, the snap line broke away off the score line So I had too order a new peice of glass. I really wasn't upset about it just trying to save a couple bucks



This photo the glass sides are silconed together.



This photo the glass sides and bottom I believe are silconed together.



Preping to silcone the inside



Completed sump! I'm very happy with the way it turned out.

[Dyspnea]

With the sump complete and the tank drilled, I need to drill the stand so the bulkheads would fit throught the stand. I bought a cheap holesaw kit from princess auto for $15 which came with 5 different sizes.

When I was drilling the glass after the holes were finished, i scored the stand with the gl******* saw so it would mark for later where i needed to drill the stand.





Stand reassembled and the bulkheads and locline in place. Now things feel like they are coming together

[Dyspnea]

Plumbing coming up next!

hay those old holes in the overflows look like they are the old style of doing things PVC pipe with fittings and you had to use O rings on both sides of the glass to get them to seal proper but they worked fine. some people when they bought one of these old style tanks setups would silicone the crap out of them and hope for the best as they don't know the old ways. Bulk heads ain't as old as over flows are. I have an older style overflow box on top of a standpipe I would prefer a overflow box and conceal the return line also. This works fine and I can make a change latter. We use to do what ever we could to make overflows work or even a standpipe for that matter. This box on a stand pipe is alright take up less real estate and my bar Gobi's have setup home right at its base the have cleared out all the sand around the stand pipe. they must like the noise of the water flowing down the pipe to the sump.

Bill

[Dyspnea]

Originally Posted by bvlester

hay those old holes in the overflows look like they are the old style of doing things PVC pipe with fittings and you had to use O rings on both sides of the glass to get them to seal proper but they worked fine. some people when they bought one of these old style tanks setups would silicone the crap out of them and hope for the best as they don't know the old ways. Bulk heads ain't as old as over flows are. I have an older style overflow box on top of a standpipe I would prefer a overflow box and conceal the return line also. This works fine and I can make a change latter. We use to do what ever we could to make overflows work or even a standpipe for that matter. This box on a stand pipe is alright take up less real estate and my bar Gobi's have setup home right at its base the have cleared out all the sand around the stand pipe. they must like the noise of the water flowing down the pipe to the sump.
Bill

Interesting, apparently this tank isn't that old... Less than two years according to the previous owner. IMO bulkhead werethe way to go, should I want to change things around.

[TheKid]

Wats That box in the sump for???

[Dyspnea]

To raise my skimmer to the proper water level. in sump skimmers have a optimal operation depth.

[sitandwatch]

Looking really, the ghetto fake wood had to go.

[Dyspnea]

Originally Posted by sitandwatch

Looking really, the ghetto fake wood had to go.

Yeah it is a massive improvement over what it used to be