DIY Frag Tank!!

billyr98 · 01-27-2007, 04:44 PM

Well me and my buddy Pmac90 wanted to make something out of acrylic for awhile... So we went to our Club meeting last week and saw someone do a couple of things with acrylic and we said, We Can Do This!! So we picked today to start.... I called a local Plastic Company yesterday and ordered my 1/4" acrylic for my 36"x36"x12" tank!!! I got all my pieces ready for this morning!! The plastic company only had Weldon 3, so we used this.. Next time we will pick up some weldon 4, it should help if we aren't so perfect!!

Well here are some pictures....

The only thing left now is for it to cure, and I will router off our little edges we left, later on today... Then tomorrow is our water test.. If it leaks a little, we will add some Weldon 16 to some of the seams....

More Pics to follow!!

andy12265 · 01-27-2007, 04:59 PM

lookin' good!!! hope all goes well!!!

sasquatch · 01-27-2007, 05:39 PM

Way to go Guys!! now thats better than sneaking off behind the barn for a smoke! is the last piece (in paper) the euro brace ?? whats next? Steve

boozeman · 01-27-2007, 07:01 PM

wooohoooo...way to go guys

maybe you can talk a lil about the steps in between pics... what's going on ect.

pmac90 · 01-27-2007, 09:00 PM

hey Billy, we building my 42 gallon tank next weekend? I have some new ideas and procedures I want to work on! This one will have an overflow!!

billyr98 · 01-27-2007, 09:11 PM

sweet!! i just finished the routering the edges.. Next is the Eurobrace!!

Next Project - Next Weekend 42g Tank for PMac90!

PhilOlsen · 01-27-2007, 10:19 PM

VERY COOL, looking forward to some pics with corals in it.

Woodstock · 01-27-2007, 10:29 PM

That is so cool! You can make your own tank

lgerold · 01-27-2007, 10:53 PM

I'm impressed, and Jealous too! Perhaps someday we'll have the nerve...

aquaman3680 · 01-27-2007, 10:55 PM

Nice billy!!! Looks like its coming together nicely... Is this going to be mainly for SPS?

Matt

billyr98 · 01-27-2007, 11:13 PM

its going to be for frags of any corals I get collected

aquaman3680 · 01-27-2007, 11:17 PM

Ha... awesome I am kid of hoping to set up a frag tank as well... I have all the supplies laying around the house... Why not use them right?

Matt

pmac90 · 01-27-2007, 11:18 PM

hopefully after my tank and a few more our other buddy will be funding a large tank! This has been a great learning experience. I think everyone should try this at least once.
Hey Bill, you get the euro brace finished??

Pro_builder · 01-27-2007, 11:28 PM

Looking good. I am thinking of taking some time off and building a 300 gallon acrylic

billyr98 · 01-27-2007, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmac90

hopefully after my tank and a few more our other buddy will be funding a large tank! This has been a great learning experience. I think everyone should try this at least once.
Hey Bill, you get the euro brace finished??

Not yet, tomorrow is a better day

01-27-2007, 04:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
billyr98 Reefing Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cherry Hill, NJ Posts: 5,399 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	DIY Frag Tank!! Well me and my buddy Pmac90 wanted to make something out of acrylic for awhile... So we went to our Club meeting last week and saw someone do a couple of things with acrylic and we said, We Can Do This!! So we picked today to start.... I called a local Plastic Company yesterday and ordered my 1/4" acrylic for my 36"x36"x12" tank!!! I got all my pieces ready for this morning!! The plastic company only had Weldon 3, so we used this.. Next time we will pick up some weldon 4, it should help if we aren't so perfect!! Well here are some pictures.... The only thing left now is for it to cure, and I will router off our little edges we left, later on today... Then tomorrow is our water test.. If it leaks a little, we will add some Weldon 16 to some of the seams.... More Pics to follow!! __________________ Billyr98 -=NJRC Treasurer=- My 450g Reef Tank ~~~ Its HERE!!!

01-27-2007, 04:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
andy12265 Midas Blenny Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 111 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! lookin' good!!! hope all goes well!!!

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sasquatch Brunt of all Jokes~ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: the very farthest west coast of canada Posts: 8,917 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! Way to go Guys!! now thats better than sneaking off behind the barn for a smoke! is the last piece (in paper) the euro brace ?? whats next? Steve

01-27-2007, 07:01 PM	#4 (permalink)
boozeman The CodFather ~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: new york Posts: 8,800 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! wooohoooo...way to go guys maybe you can talk a lil about the steps in between pics... what's going on ect. __________________ ...and when I'm old and wise little things mean little to me like autumn winds they'll blow right through me and someday, in the mist of time when they ask you if you knew me remember that you were a friend of mine

01-27-2007, 09:00 PM	#5 (permalink)
pmac90 Cabbage Leather Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bristol, PA Posts: 371 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! hey Billy, we building my 42 gallon tank next weekend? I have some new ideas and procedures I want to work on! This one will have an overflow!! __________________ Pete 90 all glass leathers, hammer, frogspawn, trumpets, trachy shrooms, gsp, plate, xenia, buttons, gonipora.... clown goby, hippo, 6-line, scopas, ocellaris... 90 lbs live rock 3" sand bed double sump ASM G1 UV - Member NJRC-

01-27-2007, 09:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
billyr98 Reefing Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cherry Hill, NJ Posts: 5,399 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! sweet!! i just finished the routering the edges.. Next is the Eurobrace!! Next Project - Next Weekend 42g Tank for PMac90! __________________ Billyr98 -=NJRC Treasurer=- My 450g Reef Tank ~~~ Its HERE!!!

01-27-2007, 10:19 PM	#7 (permalink)
PhilOlsen Has been struck by the ban stick Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Glendale Hts. Illinois (Chicago transplant to humor my wife) Posts: 646 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! VERY COOL, looking forward to some pics with corals in it.

01-27-2007, 10:29 PM	#8 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 22,553 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! That is so cool! You can make your own tank __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~Breeding Picasso Clownfish~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MHs, dual Geiseman Actinic T5s,Neptune AC III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

01-27-2007, 10:53 PM	#9 (permalink)
lgerold Scopas Tang Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Brainerd, Mn Posts: 473 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! I'm impressed, and Jealous too! Perhaps someday we'll have the nerve... __________________ Lucy Upgrade from 125 long to 210 on 1/7/07. 66 gallon sump/refugium. 10 hrs of light: 500 watt pc actinic 10 hrs 400 watt pc daylight 6 hrs 500 watt MH 4 hrs 180 lbs branch liverock. 100 lbs + assorted liverock. 3"+ DSB. Fish - Foxface, Yellow Tang, Mimic Tang, 2 Tomato Clowns, pair True Percula Clowns (and their 6 inch pastel green carpet), Mandarin, Scooter Blenny, Bartlett's Anthias, Royal Gramma, Pseudochromis Splendens. Blue/Gold Crocea Clam, Teardrop Squamosa Clam Coral favorites include: 2 Acanastreas, Pink Cynaria, Green Cynaria, Birdsnest, Trumpets, Red and Pink and Green Goniporas (3), Frogspawn (peach favorite), Fox Coral, Diploastrea, Blasto, 3 Fungia (orange, purple, and green) and many others.

01-27-2007, 10:55 PM	#10 (permalink)
aquaman3680 Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Overland Park, KS Posts: 2,122 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! Nice billy!!! Looks like its coming together nicely... Is this going to be mainly for SPS? Matt __________________ Check it out! The 90 gallon Road Trip

01-27-2007, 11:13 PM	#11 (permalink)
billyr98 Reefing Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cherry Hill, NJ Posts: 5,399 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! its going to be for frags of any corals I get collected __________________ Billyr98 -=NJRC Treasurer=- My 450g Reef Tank ~~~ Its HERE!!!

01-27-2007, 11:17 PM	#12 (permalink)
aquaman3680 Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Overland Park, KS Posts: 2,122 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! Ha... awesome I am kid of hoping to set up a frag tank as well... I have all the supplies laying around the house... Why not use them right? Matt __________________ Check it out! The 90 gallon Road Trip

01-27-2007, 11:18 PM	#13 (permalink)
pmac90 Cabbage Leather Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bristol, PA Posts: 371 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! hopefully after my tank and a few more our other buddy will be funding a large tank! This has been a great learning experience. I think everyone should try this at least once. Hey Bill, you get the euro brace finished?? __________________ Pete 90 all glass leathers, hammer, frogspawn, trumpets, trachy shrooms, gsp, plate, xenia, buttons, gonipora.... clown goby, hippo, 6-line, scopas, ocellaris... 90 lbs live rock 3" sand bed double sump ASM G1 UV - Member NJRC-

01-27-2007, 11:28 PM	#14 (permalink)
Pro_builder DIY Moderator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Oxford, Iowa Posts: 1,746 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: DIY Frag Tank!! Looking good. I am thinking of taking some time off and building a 300 gallon acrylic __________________ -Troy 180 gallon Reef, 3- 250 XM 15K MH Electronic ballast, 380 watts VHO Actinics, 2- 5 watt LED Moon lights, 100 gal rubbermaid sump, 75 gallon Fuge, ETSS 600 Skimmer, 4700-5400 gph pump for return, Octopus 3000 controller, Iwaki 40 RL skimmer pump, 2- 65w PC 10K fuge lights, 2 55 gallon barrels, Custom light oak stand and hood, misc pumps, extra 600 gallon rated tank size protein skimmer. Purple tang, yellow tang, pacific blue tang, 2 green chromis, 1 Sand sifting star, snails, hermit crabs, 2 mated perculas, pulsing Xenia, Anenome, mushrooms, ricordia, zoanthids, kenya tree 1 1/2" tall, misc other hitchhiker stuff. DIY is my dream... ...well OK the only way I can afford this Addiction!! Just as the light goes on in my head... ... I break the bulb!!

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