Fish Room Redux - 3600+ Gallon Plywood Tank Build

[nolapete]

On the agenda tonight and tomorrow night:

Make a list of supplies needed to plumb the 55 gallon wet/dry to the 210.
Finish the two pvc overflows and paint with black krylon fusion
Box up miscellaneous stuff in fish room and move it to garage
Take apart Z-Beam rack in fish room and move it to garage
Move remaining empty aquariums from fish room to garage
Sand where needed and paint canopy for 210
Build frame for dining room side of viewing window
Decide what to do with port babies
Top off tanks in garage
Clean 55 gallon wet/dry

 

[Pharaoh]

Keep it up. Even with setbacks, you're making great progress.

 

[nolapete]

Sketchup of front viewing window. The white border is going to be the same as the baseboards for the downstairs. I may change that later, but for now I don't want it to be different.

 

[nolapete]

A lot of work tonight. Phase 1B complete. Only things left to do in fish room:

1) move 50 Breeder to another location
2) move 135 out after refurbish done

Neither of these two will hinder starting construction of the tank and building out the rest of the room.

 

[blkg35]

Great progress, it looks like the room is ready for that monster tank...

 

[nolapete]

Most likely will move the 50 breeder tonight so that I can start bringing in some wood. I have to remove 13' of drywall on the wall shared by the dining room. It's a load-bearing wall, so I have to put in a header above the viewing window.

 

[nolapete]

Today was a long day, so I only painted the canopy and attempted to put it on the 210. I'm going to have to disassemble and modify it since whomever designed it made it to look pretty and be completely non-functional. It also doesn't fit in the back because we have the tank all the way forward on the stand which makes the downward part of the canopy hit against the stand.

You can see where the scrollwork appliques were and the line is where the crown moulding was. I removed all of that. It looked too gawdy.

 

[nolapete]

Big change. I was surfing the net as usual this morning and found Ames' Blue Max tank coating. I'm going to play guinea pig and try this out on my tank. This stuff could make building big tanks much easier. One big plus over pond armor that I see is that you have much more time to work with it before it sets.

Check out this video of this new product. I'm going to use it on my 3600 gallon tank.

http://www.amesresearch.com/video/bluemax.wmv

http://www.amespaint.com/detail.aspx?ID=50

http://www.amesresearch.com/bluemax.htm

 

[NOLAGT]

DUDE...thats going to be fricken huge...when you get this setup im coming check it out since I go back to nola a lot!!!

Also check this stuff out www.sanitred.com
I never used it but some have for tanks...and they can tell you the cost based on your tank size.

 

[nolapete]

That's pretty cool stuff and they say completely fish safe too. Your link doesn't work, but I went to the site directly and checked it out. I sent them an email asking if it bonds to wood and a couple other questions.