JohnnyAirtime
04-14-2012, 11:35 PM
I decided to sell, a recent purchase that I was using as a hospital tank... a 75gallon TALL Glass. A bit too much work to get in, and NET fish when transferring them to my tank... or the "holding tank".
NOW, (thanks to OCTOMAN4) I have a nice sized acrylic tank that will house my fish BEFORE I introduce them to my tanks, or the holding tank.
(click on any picture for a larger view)
Here's the tank when he advertised it. Came as the Tank, Stand and Canopy;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/th_a090365f.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/?action=view¤t=a090365f.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/th_aab030d1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/?action=view¤t=aab030d1.jpg)
A little bit of delaming on the lower edges and interior floor of the stand due to water damage... but, for the price and condition of the tank it was nothing I couldn't tackle.
I got out my scraper, and did away with all the delam.
(sorry, didn't take pictures)
Once the scraping was done, I got out the body filler, and went to town.
Puttying up the delam areas and even took care of any dents in the wood. Or high to low spots where the seems of the wood matched up, or didn't for that matter. I also cleaned up the hole cut in the stand for the overflow and return. It was pretty rough, and I wanted easy access to the bulkhead nut. How often do they leak? Not often... BUT, when you do have a small drip and need to tighten the nut on the bulkhead, access to it is essential. Since I was hacking up the 2x material for the tank support. I added a couple pieces for support;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_a0ed3537.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=a0ed3537.jpg)
Here's some of the places I body filled, and smoothed out. Including the delam spots;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_e2690a1e.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=e2690a1e.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_b466dc70.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=b466dc70.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_15bf634a.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=15bf634a.jpg)
I didn't take too many pictures as I was trying to get it done, so I could put first coat of paint on it. Which allowed me second coat of paint by midnight Friday night (after dinner and drinks of coarse!).
First coat;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_301d7cdd.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=301d7cdd.jpg)
Again, not too bad... all in all, it took me one day to repair and paint. Today I moved the stand into the 4th bedroom of my house... now dubbed the "Fish room". It's already housing my 80gal sump (for my 240), 2 25gal frag tanks and two chillers. By end of this week, it'll have this 67gal and my new addition... a 135gal. It's pretty bubbly in there!!
Today, I was able to get the 29gal sump setup with a few glass dividers. No fuge... just a spot for the ASM G2 and a double bubble trap. Plus large spot for the return pump. Fairly simple setup.
Tomorrow I'll plumb it, as I need new bulkheads and some fittings/pipe/tubing. Should be adding water by 4PM (as I want the silicone in the sump to be good and setup). Once I'm adding the water, I'll transfer the current 75gal's livestock, sand and other stuff over to this tank. Being the 75gal is sold and pending pickup for tomorrow night.
I'll snap some pictures of the easy stuff tomorrow. And how it looks somewhat setup.
NOW, (thanks to OCTOMAN4) I have a nice sized acrylic tank that will house my fish BEFORE I introduce them to my tanks, or the holding tank.
(click on any picture for a larger view)
Here's the tank when he advertised it. Came as the Tank, Stand and Canopy;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/th_a090365f.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/?action=view¤t=a090365f.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/th_aab030d1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/Per%20TYLER/?action=view¤t=aab030d1.jpg)
A little bit of delaming on the lower edges and interior floor of the stand due to water damage... but, for the price and condition of the tank it was nothing I couldn't tackle.
I got out my scraper, and did away with all the delam.
(sorry, didn't take pictures)
Once the scraping was done, I got out the body filler, and went to town.
Puttying up the delam areas and even took care of any dents in the wood. Or high to low spots where the seems of the wood matched up, or didn't for that matter. I also cleaned up the hole cut in the stand for the overflow and return. It was pretty rough, and I wanted easy access to the bulkhead nut. How often do they leak? Not often... BUT, when you do have a small drip and need to tighten the nut on the bulkhead, access to it is essential. Since I was hacking up the 2x material for the tank support. I added a couple pieces for support;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_a0ed3537.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=a0ed3537.jpg)
Here's some of the places I body filled, and smoothed out. Including the delam spots;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_e2690a1e.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=e2690a1e.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_b466dc70.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=b466dc70.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_15bf634a.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=15bf634a.jpg)
I didn't take too many pictures as I was trying to get it done, so I could put first coat of paint on it. Which allowed me second coat of paint by midnight Friday night (after dinner and drinks of coarse!).
First coat;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/th_301d7cdd.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v298/johnnyairtime/Fish-Tank/67Gal%20Hospital/?action=view¤t=301d7cdd.jpg)
Again, not too bad... all in all, it took me one day to repair and paint. Today I moved the stand into the 4th bedroom of my house... now dubbed the "Fish room". It's already housing my 80gal sump (for my 240), 2 25gal frag tanks and two chillers. By end of this week, it'll have this 67gal and my new addition... a 135gal. It's pretty bubbly in there!!
Today, I was able to get the 29gal sump setup with a few glass dividers. No fuge... just a spot for the ASM G2 and a double bubble trap. Plus large spot for the return pump. Fairly simple setup.
Tomorrow I'll plumb it, as I need new bulkheads and some fittings/pipe/tubing. Should be adding water by 4PM (as I want the silicone in the sump to be good and setup). Once I'm adding the water, I'll transfer the current 75gal's livestock, sand and other stuff over to this tank. Being the 75gal is sold and pending pickup for tomorrow night.
I'll snap some pictures of the easy stuff tomorrow. And how it looks somewhat setup.