four7mike
Fri, 17th Feb 2017, 11:08 PM
Well I took the wife to a lfs store and of course the highest priced, worst bang for your buck, hardest to find tank was pointed out. A corner bow. 150g tall plans in the trash. So I hunted and hunted and hunted not wanting to pay thousands for a new one. Ended up paying 300 for a fresh water 2004 corner from what seemed to be some uncomfortable martial dispute I wanted no part of, except the tank. Unfortunately with the exception of my Nikon I have none of the rebuild pictures due to my SD mem card dumping 404 pictures for no good reason. I will summarize without picts pics for the moment.
Phase One
I stripped the silicone to find a break in the seal about 8" from the top so I engaged some rather risky behavior and stripped a 8 inch gap in the side with scalpels and acetone. I really didn't want to break the whole thing apart. When I resealed the interior I laid it on thick maybe 3/4 seams as well as using glass tile cut into little rectangles to double the contact across the bottom. I used 2 full tubes of black silicone. It held water fine. (Everyone cringing yet?)
Phase Two
Repaint the ugly stand. I primed the interior with some epoxy driveway seal and tried adding plastidip to level the interior base. Don't ever do that lol, it came out horrible. I also ordered a 1/8 rubber mat since it was on a hardwood floor, the seal from the weight means nothing under it, we'll see how that pans out when I move it. The scrap I used under the sump since the plastidip was a flop.
Phase Three
Drilled and plumbed a synergy shadow overflow to a trigger 20 cube with a sicce 5.0 return. I had to trim some frame on the outside to better fit the synergy overflow, about 1/4". Eggcrate across the bottom. And Bimini Sand which I never heard of but is basically what everyone mixes with Florida crush and special grade to get in one bag, it looks great!
Cycling with mollies and a few corals in QT at the moment. The near future will be a canopy and somehow finding space for the copper transfer method QT. I am looking for a 24x8 ati or radion used but they only last about 4 hours on reefcentral for sale so I might just buy new. That is all for now, I should be able to load some picts off the Nikon soon.
Phase One
I stripped the silicone to find a break in the seal about 8" from the top so I engaged some rather risky behavior and stripped a 8 inch gap in the side with scalpels and acetone. I really didn't want to break the whole thing apart. When I resealed the interior I laid it on thick maybe 3/4 seams as well as using glass tile cut into little rectangles to double the contact across the bottom. I used 2 full tubes of black silicone. It held water fine. (Everyone cringing yet?)
Phase Two
Repaint the ugly stand. I primed the interior with some epoxy driveway seal and tried adding plastidip to level the interior base. Don't ever do that lol, it came out horrible. I also ordered a 1/8 rubber mat since it was on a hardwood floor, the seal from the weight means nothing under it, we'll see how that pans out when I move it. The scrap I used under the sump since the plastidip was a flop.
Phase Three
Drilled and plumbed a synergy shadow overflow to a trigger 20 cube with a sicce 5.0 return. I had to trim some frame on the outside to better fit the synergy overflow, about 1/4". Eggcrate across the bottom. And Bimini Sand which I never heard of but is basically what everyone mixes with Florida crush and special grade to get in one bag, it looks great!
Cycling with mollies and a few corals in QT at the moment. The near future will be a canopy and somehow finding space for the copper transfer method QT. I am looking for a 24x8 ati or radion used but they only last about 4 hours on reefcentral for sale so I might just buy new. That is all for now, I should be able to load some picts off the Nikon soon.