Looking great! This project is awesome!After getting further into the plywood aquarium construction I realized I would not be able to just slide the sheets of glass in and glue them, I was going to have to cut them. This would not have been such an issue had I checked to see if they were tempered or not...
Needless to say this happened on the first sheet I tried to cut. It did not blow up on the scoring of the glass it was me trying to snap that piece off.... and yes I was thinking something was wrong when I had to put that much pressure on it to break it off.
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The piece literally blew up, I have been finding pieces all over my garage, it went everywhere. I now check every piece of glass before scoring and trying to break to see if it is tempered or not. Just so everyone knows tempered glass (safty glass) explodes when broken. However, it can quite a bit of abuse before it will explode.
So to check I did the ole polarized sunglasses trick and a laptop monitor (I would have used my phone but I had added a screen protector that is tempered and would throw it all off).
My next cut/break was successful, well I considered it a success it didn't blow up.
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A bit jagged, but it worked! I figured I would sand down the rest of it so I didn't run the risk of breaking too much. I used medium grit sandpaper (80-100 grit).
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I am still working on this part, but it is getting there. This part just takes time since I am avoiding cracking this piece.
Now back to the plywood, I put a couple coats of paint on the outside and inside of the tanks. I have also now added a couple coats of pond armor.
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So everything is moving pretty quickly now so I thought I would setup a quarantine tank so I can start cycling some media and even get some fish soon. Especially if I am getting 2"-3" and it will be months before they are able to breed. I had to clean and then setup the tank.
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I am considering adding a tank divider in there and putting some of my bio balls in there with an air pump to start getting my media cycled for the rack.
I made friends with a breeder, man are these things crazy lol