First Plywood Tank (resurrection of a 125)

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cresnyk

cresnyk

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So the bottom of my 125 gallon glass aquarium cracked about two weeks ago :irked: which got the wheels turning for this project. The plan is to use 3 panes of glass from the 125 as viewing windows and add an "addition" to the back of it. I will seal the tank using a pond liner. Here are the lay out and dimension plans:

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The tank will be 2' tall. These dimensions should bring the tank to 250+ gallons. Here are some pics from progress made yesterday and today:

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These pics are from day one. The second was a glass "fitting".

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These pics are from today. The framing for the glass is complete. The triangles on top are what I will be using for cross bracing. Much of this project was inspired by the 45 degree angle ;)

So far I'm about $300 in and this includes the wood, adhesives, some tools I needed, and the pond liner. Shouldn't cost too much more to get this thing running. Liner will be here sometime next week and I will load some progress pics then. All comments are welcome.

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Wow that's inspiring, I might get some 8x4 acrylic sheets and do this to a wall in my house after reading this. Ok maybe not but very creative and inspiring design. Keep up the good work
 
brich999 said:
Wow that's inspiring, I might get some 8x4 acrylic sheets and do this to a wall in my house after reading this. Ok maybe not but very creative and inspiring design. Keep up the good work
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Thanks. The design was more or less out of necessity. If it were up to me the tank would have been a 6x4 rectangle. But making it a corner tank was the only way I could convince my fiance that it wasn't "too big" for the room :ROFL:
 
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