hello, well i know there are alot of playwood tanks but i want to be able see the tank from all sides and u dont look from the bottom so i was was wondering if u could make plywood bottom tank and the rest would be acrylic.
plywood bottom tank?
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Not saying it can't be done but, I have no idea how you would manage to bond the acrylic to the wood base. Glass can be sealed to a fiberglassed wood bottom with silicone sealer. But, silicone does not bond to acrylic. The plastic binder used to construct acrylic tanks does not float to fiberglass.
IMO, your better off building a standard plywood tank. Then, cutting windows on all 4 sides to mount the glass or acrylic panels.
IMO, your better off building a standard plywood tank. Then, cutting windows on all 4 sides to mount the glass or acrylic panels.
Glass can be simply siliconed to fiberglass. Acrylic panels are usually mounted with hardware (screws, nuts, washers) with silicone around the border. The silicone acts more like a gasket in a plywood tank than it does as a glue. Once the tank is filled, water pressure maintains the seal of the silicone "gasket". The tank you're proposing would have no framework to maintain a seal. Silicone would just peel away as the acrylic separated from the fiberglassed bottom.
wow i edit alot anyways. ah would that work though cause i dont want 100 gallons of water on my floor
. but how would i mount it, i get the screw, nuts, and washers but i would have to make the would frame like 5 inches longer and wider and get like pressure plates or drill through the acrylic?