Cost of Starphire Glass
 

Hi,

I was wondering how much Starphire glass costs?

I have a quote for $8/sq ft 1/4 inch and $16/sq ft 1/2 inch.

Is this a good price?

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

Sounds pretty good to me.

Cool........ now I have to learn how to make an aquarium :)

I've got a book on how to build aquariums but nothing beats learning from someone who knows how to build them.

I've got a line on someone who has been making them for years but we just have not gotten together.

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

It's really not that difficult to make a glass tank, what size are you planning?

I am thinking 2X2 cube.

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

even easier, that's an easy tank to assemble. Are you going rimless with the 1/2" Starphire?

I don't know........ I am kind of paranoid....... I may put in euro-bracing.

This project would probably be a whiles off....... since I have been procrastinating about cleaning up my basement and I really should get to it.

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

1/2" is plenty thick for a rimless 2 foot cube.

Entirely agree.

How do you post images?

I have a picture of something I want to do but I can't explain it.

Basically a 45 degree section of glass in the front. Here is some ASC art to try and show you what I mean.

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I have a picture of the tank but I am not sure how to post pictures.

It will be more complicated then a normal cube.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

Is the 45 across the front allowing a sort of top down view? You'll have an unsightly seam across the front. I'd look into acrylic for this design if it were me.

there is a fellow that got TOTM on aquariumpros(LUKAN).His tank is like this and looks great filled with his ricordeas.Hard to make a tank full of rics look bad though.LOL.Worth looking at and GL with the build.Clint

That is exactly almost like what I want to do. I found the picture at the old Aquarium Frontiers web magazine. An article by Daniel Knopp about Giant Clams.

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

Vic have you gone ahead with this yet? I'd really like to do something similar! Any info you could share would be appreciated. Or maybe we could get together and motivate each other? hehe

Nope....... it's going to be a while.

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]