Scott26's 90 Gallon Wave Front Build

Not alot of progress but I was able to drill and tap the open channel standpipe to accept a 3/8 male pipe by 1/4 compression fitting in order to get my air line to go to the inside of the overflow box. I also put a 90 on the top of the standpipe to make it so there is a sharper turn down.

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I still need to get the one piece of wood for the doors to finish those off which I should be able to do this weekend if I find the money for it. :)

I also got a quote from a local glass shop it will only be $20 for the overflow box to be cut out for me then prolly $5 or $10 for a tube of silicone.
 
Okay well I have been able to get some more done on the stand.

Started out by going over to mlogdon's place to biscut in a door panel since I didn't have enough wood to fill the above hole. Got there and biscuted the doors but it was to difficult to try and put them together with clamps because it was a curve it would never be able to tighten so when I got home I just put them in the stand and shimmed them in place to hold it while the gule dried it is not a really tight fit like the others but I will just fill it with some more glue to make it strong and then some wood filler to make it look good.

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I also was able to sell the above 40 gallon critter cage to a guy around my area for 100 bucks so I just made back my purchase price with a 25 dollar profit! lol. But after I got that money I stopped by Wet Pets our LFS and picked up a cheap 40 gallon for a sump. It has a center brace on top which I don't like so I may remove it I dont see why they added it to suck a small tank, seems kinda pointless to me.

I also had to redo the bottom board that holds the sump because I sanded the on ehtat I had down and it started to peel so I just used another piece of scrap that I had left over from my canopy build on my 55 gallon. And since a friend let me barrow his biscut cutter was able to biscuit them together and make a new bottom peice.

It's really starting to look like a real aquarium now. :)

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I also renforced the doors some more so that they can hold thier shape easier I used the biscut tool and cut into the top and bottom on the doors where they join at in order to put a biscut there so that they keep there form. I will jigsaw off the extra biscut later and sand it soomth. This step sure does make these doors nice and strong. :)

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I am going to have to get some good pictures up with my real camera later today hopfully so that way you guys can see them in better detail of this project. Wish I would have been using that from the begining. Oh well.
 
Okay I was able to get a little bit more done last night after I gave the biscuts time to dry I over night. I have now cut off the extra with a jigsaw to get it down a good amount. I then used a planer to get the unlevel doors to be around the same height at least enough to sand smooth that way they are all uniform the same and I dont have to run them trough a table saw now which was going to be a little difficult with a large curve like this :).

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You can see I have the doors clamped with a piece of wood the reason I did that is because I put to much of a curve in with the biscuts so the doors dont match the curve of the top and bottom wood which was bothering me so since they doors still had cracks in them from where they are connected with biscuts I used some wood and clampes and put glue down the cracks and used clamps to get them to bend back I will let them dry today before I work with them again.

Also I thought it would be good to get some full tank and stand shots also one with me in it to give you guys some perspective on how large the aquarium and stand are. Now remember I am a pretty tall guy standing at 6'2" so the overall height of the aquarium setup fits me pretty good so I don't have to bend down anymore. :D

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Well I am in the process of moving so I was able to take the Nova Extreme Light off the 55 gallon and put it on the 90 to see what it is going to look like. I still have to finish up the doors which are taking the longest but here are so progress pics.

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Great looking stuff. I like how it looks and building the stand looks like a nice challenge compared to regular tanks...I will have to look into that or a Bow front for my next tank.

-StrongMN
 
StrongMN said:
Great looking stuff. I like how it looks and building the stand looks like a nice challenge compared to regular tanks...I will have to look into that or a Bow front for my next tank.

-StrongMN
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After all the time I have put into this stand I wish it was a rectangle one! lol.
 
anbosu said:
Are you planning to paint the back glass? Or is the spot in front of the window temporary?
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I am going to paint the back pane just not sure which color yet either black or a dark blue. I am actually moving so the aquarium will be in a different location but I don't know where yet I wouldn't have kept it in that location because of all the sun that it would have gotten on it.
 
scott26 said:
I am going to paint the back pane just not sure which color yet either black or a dark blue. I am actually moving so the aquarium will be in a different location but I don't know where yet I wouldn't have kept it in that location because of all the sun that it would have gotten on it.
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Cool, just checking. That tank would have been algae central with all of that sunlight.
 
scott26 said:
Ya sure would have and I don't want to deal with the GHA again.
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I didn't mention it earlier, but this is a great looking build! I used to see those wave tanks for sale all the time; it will be cool to see one set up as a reef.
 
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