How to make your Own fish food?

[moneytank]

maybe try growing some culepra (spelling???) algea in a seperat tank since it grows fast. and then go to the coast to catch your own shrimp and fish to chop up.
just a thought..............

[Flobex]

just thougt i would pipe in, and say AMAZINNG TANK!!! what are the dimensions? gallons?

[TruonkQ]

heheh 600+ gallons 8' long x 4' tall x 32" deep. Fixing to add some leathers/ some corals since i havn't seen the angels touch the zoo's or green star polyps

[matt]

Weldon #40 is great stuff, but I'm not sure if you're aware that for a job this size it's recommended that you anneal the tank after cementing. I have no idea where you'd find an oven big enough to fit that tank! Did you angle the edges before cementing them, or just cut them straight? Also, I'm curious if you have the special mxing applicator or did you just mix it up by hand and apply it?

I've thought about using weldon #40 for making a tank; I used to use it sometimes to glue on the bottoms of skimmer boxes, and I always use it to attach PVC fittings to acrylic. The annealing part has always scared me away from using for a big project; although I have to aqree that weldon #4 would not be a good choice for this. If I were going to try to build a big tank, I'd probably use MC bond, which is a slower acting solvent.

[TruonkQ]

heheh i never heard about annelling the tank, but if it don't leak. Don't fix it!. I used weldon 40 the first time. You'd be amazed at what it does. I didn't even polish the side when i tested it on a sump i made. It melted the joints a bit and the whole thing became clear. Took a hammer to a test piece and the acrylic broke, but not the part glued. I had to act quick to get all the bubbles away from the side, which had lots of clamps involved. I never heard about MC, but i learned that a slower solvent would cause all the glue to gush out as you place these heavy sheets on the base, but it insures that the glue has touched every part, so i wasn't afraid it would leek. If you don't try, you would never know. I hated these pro's i talked to in houston to glue it. They gave me lots of BS and wouldn't waranty it. They didn't have the guts to do something this big though and said it required alot of equipment. LOL it took lots of clamps, big syringe, mixing stick, puddy knife, alcohol, and acetone to clean the dirty/ smeared part. The tank i built is actually glued to the steel stand. Impossible to move now =0.