I just posted some pics and vids of the pups in the media lounge. They seem to be doing pretty good.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4983097
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4983097
10'x14' 2500 Gallon Plywood Stingray Pond
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Nice build.. Gives me some more ideas 
Questions.
Q: Why so many products to line the pond? Why no just skip the max ACR and just go from the Poly to Sweetwater? Or skip the poly and just use max and sweetwater?
12 Gallons of Polyester Fiberglass Resin
9 Gallons of Max ACR Epoxy Fiberglass Resin
3 Gallons of Sweetwater Epoxy Paint
That's about $1200 worth of resins and paint.
Not that it's bad, I am just curious.. In the planning stages of a new tank and and looking for more options.
Also what was the coverage you got from the resins? I know the paint is about 260 sqft/Gallon.
Thanks!
Questions.
Q: Why so many products to line the pond? Why no just skip the max ACR and just go from the Poly to Sweetwater? Or skip the poly and just use max and sweetwater?
12 Gallons of Polyester Fiberglass Resin
9 Gallons of Max ACR Epoxy Fiberglass Resin
3 Gallons of Sweetwater Epoxy Paint
That's about $1200 worth of resins and paint.
Not that it's bad, I am just curious.. In the planning stages of a new tank and and looking for more options.
Also what was the coverage you got from the resins? I know the paint is about 260 sqft/Gallon.
Thanks!
We originally planned to just use MaxACR and Sweetwater paint. When we decided to do fiberglass reenforcement on all the seams we got the poly because we knew the fiberglass was going to soak up a ton. Since the poly was relatively cheap we ended up doing several layers of it.
We probably would have been fine using just 2 of them, but kinda figured might as well do all 3. I think it paid off, unlike allot of the builds on here we did not have 1 single leak in the pond, just a bunch in our PVC.
Yeah the paint was about 250sqft, we got 1 good coat per gallon of paint, and I remember the square footage coming out to around 250.
MaxACR is pretty thick stuff. If I remember right we used a bit less than 3 gallons a coat, so about 90-100 sqft per gallon.
The poly resin was thinner than the MaxACR. I think we got a coat out of about 1.5-2 gallons. So 125-160 sqft per gallon. We used alot of it on the fiberglass, we had some fiberglass matte that soaked up a ton. Probably used a good 3 gallons just on the seams.
We probably would have been fine using just 2 of them, but kinda figured might as well do all 3. I think it paid off, unlike allot of the builds on here we did not have 1 single leak in the pond, just a bunch in our PVC.
Yeah the paint was about 250sqft, we got 1 good coat per gallon of paint, and I remember the square footage coming out to around 250.
MaxACR is pretty thick stuff. If I remember right we used a bit less than 3 gallons a coat, so about 90-100 sqft per gallon.
The poly resin was thinner than the MaxACR. I think we got a coat out of about 1.5-2 gallons. So 125-160 sqft per gallon. We used alot of it on the fiberglass, we had some fiberglass matte that soaked up a ton. Probably used a good 3 gallons just on the seams.
VICTORY!!
you got a couch, coffee table and food in there yet?? be in there all day vegetating for sure!!
you got a couch, coffee table and food in there yet?? be in there all day vegetating for sure!!took me all day to read through this thread amazing build man cant wait to buy a house so i can actually do somthing like this instead of just tanks..
