sfsuphysics
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Thought I'd start a thread here rather than continuing the one in the Reef Talk forum just to keep things a bit clean here.
Here's the thread
http://www.bareefers.org/discussion/index.php?topic=4970.0
To recap, I pulled a boner and damaged my other tank, Doug lent me a 180g tank, 4 feet long, 3 feet wide, 2 feet tall. I built a stand, nothing pretty, just functional for it to sit atop, finally rid myself of all those scrap pieces of lumber I've been keeping that I kept saying "I'll have a use for that!" (more on the stand later)
Well the tank itself has some scratches inside, and a couple good sized ones on the outside, guess storage wasn't kind to this boy.. but it's a temporary tank and it already is less scratched than my current acrylic tank so bonus I'm not going to even bother with the internal scratches, I might try to buff out the external ones, but they feel pretty deep so I might let Doug handle that when/if he wants to use this tank.
This first post is rather short and too the point.. there was a single hole for a 3/4" bulkhead in an odd spot center and off to the left that he used for freshwater fish or something, well that wasn't going to do for an overflow, so I decided I need to figure a way out. Doug gave me the go ahead to modify it (but I'm not going to cut the top ) so I decided my patented coast-to-coast external overflow fit the bill. It's an easy enough thing to do with some patience, and a straight cutting edge, plus it's something that's totally fixable if Doug doesn't like it since the back is black.
Well unfortunately tap plastic is closed on Sunday, and I only have enough acrylic for half of the overflow, so the rest will come later, but here are the holes I cut... there's a couple goofs where there drill holes were a tad too high, but nothing that makes a big difference. Pretty snazzy looking (and WAY better looking that the one on my 100g... but that one was done when the tank was full of water
Here's the thread
http://www.bareefers.org/discussion/index.php?topic=4970.0
To recap, I pulled a boner and damaged my other tank, Doug lent me a 180g tank, 4 feet long, 3 feet wide, 2 feet tall. I built a stand, nothing pretty, just functional for it to sit atop, finally rid myself of all those scrap pieces of lumber I've been keeping that I kept saying "I'll have a use for that!" (more on the stand later)
Well the tank itself has some scratches inside, and a couple good sized ones on the outside, guess storage wasn't kind to this boy.. but it's a temporary tank and it already is less scratched than my current acrylic tank so bonus I'm not going to even bother with the internal scratches, I might try to buff out the external ones, but they feel pretty deep so I might let Doug handle that when/if he wants to use this tank.
This first post is rather short and too the point.. there was a single hole for a 3/4" bulkhead in an odd spot center and off to the left that he used for freshwater fish or something, well that wasn't going to do for an overflow, so I decided I need to figure a way out. Doug gave me the go ahead to modify it (but I'm not going to cut the top ) so I decided my patented coast-to-coast external overflow fit the bill. It's an easy enough thing to do with some patience, and a straight cutting edge, plus it's something that's totally fixable if Doug doesn't like it since the back is black.
Well unfortunately tap plastic is closed on Sunday, and I only have enough acrylic for half of the overflow, so the rest will come later, but here are the holes I cut... there's a couple goofs where there drill holes were a tad too high, but nothing that makes a big difference. Pretty snazzy looking (and WAY better looking that the one on my 100g... but that one was done when the tank was full of water