Plywood sump

[ramsey]

I read a howto on Garf's website about building a tank out of plywood. I also found a guy who used this to build a 1000+ gallon shark tank. I was thinking about making a custom sump using the same method. Has anyone tried this? If it works, it seems like it'd cost a great deal less than making or buying an acrylic sump.

[FireWater]

Mike (Texreefer) ran a plywood in wall tank with great success. I believe there was another person on here that built one as well. Why plywood for the fuge? Custom dimensions and baffles? If I had the room to plumb through a wall I would use a Rubbermaid feed trough for a fuge.

[kkiel02]

Im going to be rubbermaiding kinda soon. Also going to use silicone to make sure it never leaks out of that bulkhead in the bottom. Sorry I have no experience with plywood tanks though.

[ramsey]

Yeah, after reading more, plywood is not really that cheap unless you're building a huge tank. Rubbermaid is a good idea for a fuge. Yes, I want to build a custom sump of some sorts. I'm going to build a bench along a wall (about 12' long) and I want all my tank filtration under the bench. I'm going to be running my 185 and a 40b and I'd like to have a nice sized fuge and a large area for polyfill or filter floss. Oh yeah, a small frag tank as well. :P