Tank neeeds to come down

[TheFishMan65]

I am beginning to get the big picture. I would think the epoxy would be stronger than the screws for holding the wood together. However the water path is what I was hoping you would not have to sorry about.

 

[magdelan]

Der Willz.......??? Did you see this?

Der Willz.......??? Did you see this?

I wish I was in a position to help, but I am in a shambles at the moment setting up a 120. I would, however love to take those snails and possibly the hermits off your hands. What kind of snails and what kind of hermits? I live in Rochester, so I'd have to make a trip, but $0.25 critters is worth the drive.

I may also be interested in the sand depending on the size...do you have a picture of the sandbed?

Please let me know

Mike

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

There is no room to sister another board to it ???

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Mike, sorry, missed your post earlier. The sand is medium-grain (definitely not the sugar fine stuff people use for DSBs). There's probably about 100 - 150 lbs of it left over. It should probably be rinsed. At this point I'm just going to put it in a bin so if you want it, you can come grab it.

Thanks to help from Pascal and Fritz the new tank is up, and the 360g is (mostly) empty. Thanks guys! At this point, I'm going to hold on to all my equipment in case I do decide to repair, but as Pascal can attest (having seen the damage firsthand) it's going to be awkward at best.

 

[RyanEG]

Dwiz did my email come through?

 

[Srixon]

Is the issue at the top of the tank? Could you make some sort of vivarium out of it? Fresh Water bio tope.....frogs and lizards and fish..provided they don't eat each other

 

[magdelan]

Mike, sorry, missed your post earlier. The sand is medium-grain (definitely not the sugar fine stuff people use for DSBs). There's probably about 100 - 150 lbs of it left over. It should probably be rinsed. At this point I'm just going to put it in a bin so if you want it, you can come grab it.

Is it the special grade sea floor sand? That's one under crushed coral. Can you take a picture of it for me? Also, What kind of snails and hermits do you have? I would definately like the snails.

Thanks!!

PS- are you going to clean out your inbox? I'd really like to PM you.

 

[Flanders]

glad it went well... sorry to give you back that tank with an odd-looking shelf installed in it.

 

[pascal32]

Mike, sorry, missed your post earlier. The sand is medium-grain (definitely not the sugar fine stuff people use for DSBs). There's probably about 100 - 150 lbs of it left over. It should probably be rinsed. At this point I'm just going to put it in a bin so if you want it, you can come grab it.

Thanks to help from Pascal and Fritz the new tank is up, and the 360g is (mostly) empty. Thanks guys! At this point, I'm going to hold on to all my equipment in case I do decide to repair, but as Pascal can attest (having seen the damage firsthand) it's going to be awkward at best.

glad to help

I was thinking on the way back, how about cutting the top 1.5" off the tank and putting a new brace on? some guides clamped to the sides should make for a clean cut with a circle saw. You loose some volume, but not the tank. I can't remember how high the glass goes...

 

[TheFishMan65]

I like that idea Blurry, and he may try it. He was trying to limit the work and changing the height means that all the drywall work above the tank has to be redone as I understand. The tanks is supporting the walls above it. It is truly a built in tank. Not one that was added to an existing all.

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Interesting idea but not sure how it would work - the glass is within a quarter inch of the bottom of the existing brace, so there would really be no room to glue a new one "in" the tank - it would have to sit "on" the tank and I'm not sure if that's as reliable.

At any rate I appreciate all the ideas about repair.

In the meantime, the 60g is doing beautifully. It's running with a mag 12 as a return pump - and currently the only circulation. The glass-holes 1500gph overflow easily handles it, even wide open, but it gets pretty noisy - mostly because of the poor implementation, not through any fault of the overflow itself. I've got a koralia on the way from BRS and will turn the pump down once that gets here.

Fritz also lent me two nanocustoms PAR38 LED lamps that I have running along with an old PC striplight. These LED fixtures really look nice and have great color but with only 5 LEDs each they're just not very powerful.

Here's a photo. Ignore the reflection of kids toys.