my friend and I are both making plywood tanks, thought we'd share our progress over here. She is on ofish and has a thread going, if you'd like to look at that here is the link: http://www.oscarfish.com/discussion...606.html?sid=e1e2e38bd475792830f13da01f195650
but I like this forum better
and wanted to start my own thread on this...so here is goes, we started Sunday, worked all day and all day Monday, we ended up getting a lot further than we thought we would. We slightly modified garf's stand for a little extra support, that's an awful lot of weight to have on some 2x4's so it's actually got 4x6's supporting it as well (3 2x4's together) and we are going to fiberglass the tanks, then put on the paint. As of right now all that's really left is the fiberglass, paint, stain and trim work, and reinforcing the tank some more (I haven't quite figured out how I want to do that yet), plus plumbing the sump, which we also made so it would fit under our stand, it's a 55 gal sump, oh, and the glass (that's a much longer list than I was hoping for). The tank measures 8Lx3Wx2H so my fishies should be happy 
but it is by no means the biggest any of you have seen, thats for sure...I'd love to have that 1700 shark tank 
I'll post more updates as we get further, but it's slow working on it as our husbands only have 1 day off a week...
as for a stock list, I've got 2 paroon sharks growing out of a 55 gal tank right now, and everything else in that tank is going to the big tank too, the channel cat, pictus, 4 cory cats, 3 mollies and some babies, a common pleco and a bichir (that goes in with the africans after they grow up some). I am thinking about re-homing the channel cat and getting a red tail cat, but I'm not sure if there will be enough space for that, I also have decided I want a grey sultan pleco instead of the common, but other than that, any suggestions on what to throw in with the paroons would be more than welcome...
but I like this forum better
and wanted to start my own thread on this...so here is goes, we started Sunday, worked all day and all day Monday, we ended up getting a lot further than we thought we would. We slightly modified garf's stand for a little extra support, that's an awful lot of weight to have on some 2x4's so it's actually got 4x6's supporting it as well (3 2x4's together) and we are going to fiberglass the tanks, then put on the paint. As of right now all that's really left is the fiberglass, paint, stain and trim work, and reinforcing the tank some more (I haven't quite figured out how I want to do that yet), plus plumbing the sump, which we also made so it would fit under our stand, it's a 55 gal sump, oh, and the glass (that's a much longer list than I was hoping for). The tank measures 8Lx3Wx2H so my fishies should be happy but it is by no means the biggest any of you have seen, thats for sure...I'd love to have that 1700 shark tank I'll post more updates as we get further, but it's slow working on it as our husbands only have 1 day off a week...
as for a stock list, I've got 2 paroon sharks growing out of a 55 gal tank right now, and everything else in that tank is going to the big tank too, the channel cat, pictus, 4 cory cats, 3 mollies and some babies, a common pleco and a bichir (that goes in with the africans after they grow up some). I am thinking about re-homing the channel cat and getting a red tail cat, but I'm not sure if there will be enough space for that, I also have decided I want a grey sultan pleco instead of the common, but other than that, any suggestions on what to throw in with the paroons would be more than welcome...
