Joining two 5' 120g length wise

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Very easy. I'd use 3" wide strips of 1/4" glass. You need 3 pieces for the outside and 4 pieces for the inside.

Outside:

Bottom - Width of tank plus 1/2"
Front and back - Height of tank

Inside:
Bottom - Width of inside of tank
Front and back - Height of tank - 1/2"
Brace - Width of inside of tank

Clean off all silicone from inside of tank. You should take this opportunity to reseal the tank since silicone will NOT bond to silicone. It must be a continuous bead to hold water.

Put the outside bottom on then the outside front/back pieces then the inside bottom, front/back, then brace.

Silicone the entire tank. Wait at least 7 days before filling.

Moving a 10 ft. tank in place pretty much is going to be impossible without lots of help and an open wall space to put it in.

Good luck.
 
nolapete;3785069; said:
Moving a 10 ft. tank in place pretty much is going to be impossible without lots of help and an open wall space to put it in.

Good luck.
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That would be my biggest concern, I'd try to build it in place, you want to avoid stressing that joint any more than it will be from the water pressure...
 
there is a guy on here that has done two giant tanks, i think like two 220's so its very possible.
 
Well my main reasoning is for my Clown loaches... I have 10 of them in one of my 120's and some are approaching 10 inches. I also have 4 Uaru that are getting kinda large so I want them all to have adequate room to swim at lengths... Bridges wont work for the sizes of the fish.

So is this a dangerous idea? I did plan on building the tank and not moving it... I would simply put the wall up after the tank was built. I had originally planned on doing a plywood tank but I am fearful of leaks and how long it would actually even last.
 
You were gonna do plywood, but u were fearful of leaks, so instead you decide to glue 2 tanks together? lol. Dude, if this is going in your wall, you're gonna have to live with it forever. Make sure it's done right. Either get a tank custom built, or do a really high-quality plywood build.
 
I personally like the L tank. The seam will never look good gluing 2 tanks together end to end.

JK47;3787999; said:
Why not just take the panels apart and make a cube tank?
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You'd probably need thicker glass for that as it would hold about 4x as much water.
 
LOL, go with a plywood tank. Pulling 2 tanks apart to build a mega tank is a sweet idea, but it has 12-35 hours of labor cleaning/prepping the glass, and then putting it together. It just seems like a headache...FYI I work for a tank building company.
 
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