I ordered the 3/4" thick glass pieces I need in order to fix the center brace. That is expensive stuff! I worked on getting the old piece of center brace removed. I'm a little over half way done. This is VERY nerve wracking work! Does anyone have a recommendation for getting the silcone to "let go" between these pieces? I've been using a putty knife to squeeze in between the pieces and sllllooooowwwwwllllllyyyyyyy getting them separated.
We also expanded the doorway into the theater room. This tank will go against the wall to the right. The doorway is all squared up and framed in. We are finishing the drywall work, then we have some painting to do, then we just have to put up the trim pieces. I had to move the light switch for the light in the threater room and I also eliminated a wall socket.
Before:
After:
Pics of just the general mess I'm making...
Unfortunately, the glass for the center brace will take 3-4 weeks to be made and ground down to size and delivered so that gives me a chance to slow down on all of this a bit. I already have four of the legs cut for the stand, 6 more to go but that is only an evenings worth of work. You can see one of the legs in the last pic. I'm notching the 4x4 and the 2x6 will sit plumb with the edge of the 4x4 so give me a nice even surface to put the shell on to the stand. Putting the stand together will take a weekend. Plumbing prep work is only a few days worth of work.
I think I've settled on the lights for this tank. I'm going to get four of
these. Mr. Coral uses these and three of them lights up an 8 foot frag tank so I figure four should light up a 10 foot tank quite nicely.