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so the past few weeks i have thought about getting a tank for the kitchen, searching canreef, local buy and sell sites, LFS;s etc. looking for the perfect sized tank, and got nilch.
so while cleaning out the closet, i found a boat load of glass, and was like, i can build a tank, easy, get a glass cutter, some silicon, and bam new tank.

LOL, this is the build

the base

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0973.jpg

this triangle is very important :razz:

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0974.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0978.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0975.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0976.jpg

LOL, BOW TANK :mrgreen:

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0977.jpg

CHECK THE BELEVELED EDGES, NOW THATS CRAFTMANSHIP, :lol:

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0980.jpg

so far, wait until the silconing starts LOL

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0981.jpg

hope you all find this as enternaing as me :lol:

Sweet, can i have one?

Look'n good bye:biggrin:

so i am walking around the apt bare foot telling myself to be careful before i get the vaccum to clean up and wham!!! i stuck something in my foot, and i go to check out the damage, and it was just a grain of dry rice, LOL.

anyways heres the first wall in place.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0982.jpg

I want one too!!!! This is gonna be cool!

I thought you had a kitchen tank?

Nice use of City Palate there John.

Colin

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Originally Posted by Pazil (Post 442994)

Look'n good bye:biggrin:

still not sure what i am going to put in it.....

Quote:

Originally Posted by fooser (Post 443047)

I want one too!!!! This is gonna be cool!

:twised:

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Originally Posted by ColinD (Post 443144)

I thought you had a kitchen tank?

Nice use of City Palate there John.

Colin

LOL, yeah that was a good read. The ol ten gallon is under the stand of the display.

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Originally Posted by fragNplug (Post 442992)

Sweet, can i have one?

LOL, sure :question:

so here are some updates, got two more sides up and i will try and get another one up after work. then going to work on the over flow.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0983.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/IMG_0984.jpg

maybe i missed it, but why is there 2 pieces of glass siliconed together??? i am really enjoying you laugh about this, i think making tanks is so much fun. i think i will build my next one, but order the glass i tried to cut glass and failed.