Thanks, only getting starter I hope!
A bit worried about the rainbow fish as they aren’t settling in quite. But then again I’ve bin considering changing them in for some Congo tetras. A big school of 30 plus should be nice, I think.
And yes my dads workshop comes nice along, got pretty much all we ...

I’m don for now, I’m only runing canisters filters atm, but the furnisher is made for a sump. So sometime in the future I will make a sump. Not quite sure what type of sump system I want but.

Anyway here is the finish!

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Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want likes I simply would like some feedback and some tips under the proses, since it’s my first time doing this, and I’ve got some. Then it slowed down so I was thinking it might be because it’s and old thread but I guess not since ppl are still reading

I guess, didn’t se mutch activity so it felt like I was talking to my self. Painting and hopefully switching the tank tomorrow

The brace is siliconed on, and now I have to wait another 24h before we can test fill it, and if everything seems okey I’ll be painting the side panels and back glass black for a finishing touch

I hope not, I rly want any of the braces at all, but one to support the front and back glass should slide, one of the middle Is the last thing I want, but if I have to I have to.

I’ll check it out, all ready had a look actually and it looks amazing

I am excited to, but since it came with out any kind of support bars on the front and back glass I didn’t rly think I would need it. Oh boy how wrong I was, let’s just say when the tank is half full, the glass all suddenly looks like my juwel vision.

So i have to glue the bars back on. My guess is ...

Not sure how interesting this is, but I’m gonna keep posting anyway!

Safe testing the tank now, and we’ll see how it goes.

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Relishing these won’t fit! Did some improviseing and cut the edges ...

Not gonna lie, I’m pretty excited too. Just finished the table and I must say the result is amazing. I’ll add som pictures of the process.

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This is the plywood we used, and it’s cut to be the exact measure as the tank.

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Just finished gluing the tank, some pictures from the proses.







Forgot how big it is

Thx I’ve borrowed some
Break cleaner from my dads workshop, let’s see if that dos the trick tomorrow.

As for the glass I’ve only had positive feedback on Facebook from multiple pages so I’m giving it a shot. And 12mm glass should be more then enough for an 480L tank.

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So I’ve just got the glass and it’s laminated two 6mm glasses together, so the question is will this hold this tank?

My mistake, I ment actually. I’d never re silicone a tank without tearing apart. I’d actually never guess that normal spray for cleaning glass/windows would to the trick. Still using acetone before I re silicon it

Thanks for the help!

Im a aware of that, and all glasses have bin separated, they only problem is the layer of some oil based on it. Just tried some simple glass cleaner and it acutely removed it, can’t wrap my head around how that removes it, but the acetone didn’t.

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No I don’t think so. The tank is only 480L but the glasses are 12mm thick, and the bottom is 24mm thick, I think it’s rly thick.

The lengths are 120cm 80cm 50cm

MarcW wrote: 01 Jun 2019, 22:47 I guess we posted at the same time! Something I've used to clean up pipes before solvent welding is MEK that may remove the film. It's methyl ethyl keytone I believe, it takes the surface off of pvc pipes, so it'd be worth a shot I think.

MEK? Never heard of that, I’ll look it
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The tank when I first got it. It’s going to be an amazing tank



The glass with the layer og olibased cover that I can’t remove. Not the best picture but

https://i.imgur.com/6PsAlc1_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium looks like this, it’s an optiwhite tank or what it was cald. It’s from a well known pleco keeper in Norway named Richard.

So it’s like a puzzle, with several small pieces glued together. It’s so the bottom can handle more ...

Just got this amazing plecotank and it will definitely be my summer project, but it needs to be re siliconed. And it’s a double bottom, glued together. Now there was moisture between the glasses that was glued together and it looks like it reacted with the silicone and created some sorth oil layer ...

Probably not that picky when it comes to partners as water quality, tank setup, and filtration. Given that they rarely have bin spawned.
And I’d actually make sure that you have 2 hemi, and not one hemi and one bary

The cave is finally don as well, I guess it turns out okey.

Hope some, looks grate so far, I just made the cave as well, not sure how that will turn out as I didn’t have enough to make it

I’d say so to, I can see a lot of movements between the rocks as well. They definitely didn’t like the last setup

All tho it could have bin a nitrate spike its not. Since I moved around on so many rocks and stuff I did a 50% water change as well and added prime. They tend to go up and down the glass at the night, and then settle a place on the glass for a bit before they go back to the caves.

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This is just ridiculous.. They are all sudden out and swinging around like nothing ever happend..

Thanks, I guess it just feels like the tank is to heavily stacked with stones and it’s leaking debt. Oh well, I’m the coming summer I’m taking out the background and doing a complete rework of the tank, painting the sides black and all

Cheers, haven’t made the cave/caves yet. But I’m missing some dirt to make that, and since it’s Easter and all the shops are closed until Tuesday, and since we just redid our backyard I rly don’t feel like stealing dirt from it

The finishing look, I’m not sure what I think, but that’s non important, it’s more about the plecos. The tank is still a bit cloudy

bekateen wrote: 21 Apr 2019, 18:37 Looks like a good start!

More wood? (reminds me of "I need more cowbell!")

Have fun,
Eric

Remove the old one, I didn’t quite like the look of it