I would media blast that before i took a grinder to it. The amount of time and money on wheels and discs. I would look in to a spray on coating of some sort as well. You could get a roll on but that is a lot of metal to cover.
If you decide you don't want to spend the money on carbon fiber a friend of mine used a burlap sack to match his fenders to his CF hood. It looked pretty flawless. If you lay the base color then stretch the burlap over it and spray the next color it looks like a weave.
That is very cool. I had some geos pair up and breed in a 240 tank after with no heater after it got warm again. I would suggest separating the breeding pair from the rest. I had to get rid of mine because they kept breeding and terrorizing everything in the tank.
YOu don't have to stir it the air will faoce it's self to teh top adn take teh nasty crap with it. You just need to have a second return so the flushed water does not end up back in teh pond.
I bought this tank almost two years ago from Charlie at the fish tank factory and never got the chance to set it up. My wife and I just bought our home and this tank does not fit anywhere, so it is up for sale. Looking to get $400 OBO. I have never filled this tank. It has a center overflow with...
It depends on the height of the water at it's lowest point of the acrylic an the bracing around the window. you could build a 10' deep tank and get away with 1/2" acrylic if you just wanted a window the top 2', where as if you wanted the window at the bottom of the tank you would need something...
I built my own steel stands which is what a lot of people with them do if they don't get it from the tank manufacturer. Any steel fab shop can easily build any stand you want. The only problem is making sure it will hold the weight. If you are going with a standard 8x2x2 240 that will be some...
Go over to Reef central and some other reef sights and you will see a lot of plywood tanks that have been running well over 5 years. I have seen some at least double that. I know it is not the same but I have seen wooden water tanks that I saw built on farms when I was a kid still in operation...