Squire's 80 Gallon Rebuild ** UPDATED new pics**

[ensquire]

3 coats of marine grade black paint and 2 coats of sealer.



Set stand in place and pull out the level and ............ NO WAY



Set tank in place, nice reflection in tank me and my Sponge Bob Tshirt.



After careful consideration of all advice on how to mod my overflow, I came up with this solution. Since I had a 1" and a 1/2" bulkhead in overflow I found it insufficient to drain efficiently. I upsized the 1" to 1 1/2" Pipe above the bulkhead . I bored out the 1/2" to 3/4" and made that the emergency drain and I added a second 1/2" emergency out the back.



Side veiw



Prepping emergency line and Return line for paint. Like the look of black pipes on black background.





This is the return that I came up with, is it to much ?? want lots of flow .





Cover for overflow



Painted Lines



Ready to be glued in place and a little touch up paint. Good to go.

[ensquire]

Sump retrofit up next.

[Aquaria]

When's the next update it's been awhile

[ensquire]

After a year of gathering , tuning , upgrading, making sure it was ready to go. I decided today was the day to move this tank home. Balmy -31 outside.









Nuff Said

[The Grizz]

OH CRAPPY DEAL!! Worst part you can't even just replace the side.

[Nano]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats so awful.

[fishytime]

duuuuuuuude!.......that sucks!

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

OH CRAPPY DEAL!! Worst part you can't even just replace the side.

Yup , nice looking tank but pretty hard to patch ,
Was getting pretty excited to get it going after all this time.
Local FS has 2 tanks for sale , 130 gallon for 3200.00 and a 65 gallon for 1300.00. Not that desperate ........................
and of course there are at least 4 or 5 tanks on here that would work, only a 10 hour drive away


FML

[lastlight]

Wow and you'd been so patient and fiddled so much with that thing! I swear moving somewhere closer to aquatic civilization might be worthwhile =)