New Fish room/ 4000gal tank build
- Thread starter Gpdriftwood
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1.5" on the front of the panel and the 3/4" side lip. I ran 3 huge separate beads of silicone, 1 on the exposed 2x4, 1 in the corner over the staples and all gaps were filled from the inside and smoothed out. A 4th bead was also done on the outside of the openings after.
The liner was thoroughly sanded with 100grit sandpaper about 4" onto the liner from the openings and cleaned prior to silicone. For the record even with scuffing silicone does not adhere well to liner at all and I knew this coming in. This is the un-sponsored advertisement for Gorilla brand water proof tape. Flex seal is garbage. GORILLA is awesome. Sticks to liner like glue. It was applied over the silicone from liner to glass everywhere. Like I said before, not the prettiest, but sure is water tight. I couldn't really find anybody who had made glass to liner work well. This worked great. Love Gorilla tape. I forgot to document the taping though. Sorry.
lol just watched the YouTube preview for it, looks good, the black around the windows is sleek. That’s the one aspect of liners that really worry me, meeting at the window pane but that looks good excited to see it in action
I used white tape, and although I made a YouTube channel awhile ago, I have yet to post anything. Lol. Months of brainstorming this issue, this is the ONLY idea I trusted 100%.
(4) 2" bulkheads drilled 1/4" lower successively. 2 lengths of 2" galvanized pipe for top bracing and time to build the 4'x10' -2"x8" platform over the far end which would house a 140gal lowboy tank and the biological filtration barrel.
time to start plumbing.
time to start plumbing.
Also the platform is bracketed in place as a 3rd top brace, and the excess liner on the end was folded back on top of the platform to close in the end of the tank and waterproof the top of the platform.
Will do a full video of the whole system soon. But here's another teaser for Matteus. All of my males r in with the pima
now. Will be transferring females this week.
now. Will be transferring females this week.OMG that is a crazy system - love the set up would love to see more pics of the plumbing and filtration
Thanks man. Here's a few bad pics and a quick overview. The 2" bulkheads run to the 4" stack that's runs down the tank to the blue barrel which contains my mechanical filtration tray, 2 large mesh bags of k1, and the overflow for the trickle system. I put the barrelease on a small platform so I could put the bulkhead in the bottom to gravity feed the Gould pump. 1"pvc goes to the white primary biological barrel (moving bed k1) up on the platform beside the 140gal lowboy. This barrel has (3) 2" bulkheads up top, one goes to the 140gal then to the 4000, one returns directly to the 4000, and the other will go to my 300gal which I have to install on the other platform over the near end of the tank, then to the 4000. There will also be a 75gal tank next to the 300gal. One of the overflows from the 300 will feed the 75 before feeding the big tank. I'm a big fan of the k.i.s.s. method, keep it simple stupid! I think that covers it...
