Building your own tank

[ecoreefguy]

Anyone have experience or able to build or if I supply the lexand or acrylic

 

[hankhill31]

i built a 220g acrylic tank 61x30x28

 

[FutureInterest]

There's a guy kind of near sugarloaf mills, goes by Kevin that built his own 300 out of acrylic.

 

[FutureInterest]

I just saw it the other day, pretty impressive.

 

[ecoreefguy]

Hank how are the seems( any bubbles) and what would you charge to assemble?

 

[perez.atl]

Where do you all get your acrylic panels locally? Thinking about building one as well.

 

[FutureInterest]

http://www.calsakplastics.com/

 

[seand]

Calsak is a bit pricy try Piedmont Plastics

 

[FutureInterest]

I forgot about them... good suggestion

 

[Adam]

I believe both of those places will cut the sheet for you too. If you have the EXACT measurements they'll cut and prep the edges.

 

[enderg60]

Arcylic tanks are REALLY easy to make. Ive made a few of them from 10 to 50 gallons. Make sure you get the right kind of weldon for what you want to make. 3 and 4 are great but watery. 16 is good for filling gaps or if youre new to acrylic.

https://www.usplastic.com has cast and extruded acrylic and will cut to order.

Glass tanks are not really any harder, just different and its really hard to get glass at a low enough price to make it worth while. Ive found unless its a large custom size tank its usually cheaper to buy a glass tank than make it.

 

[dball711]

Sounds like we may need another acrylic workshop meeting...get folks some hands on experience.

 

[AquariumSchmo]

Sounds like we may need another acrylic workshop meeting...get folks some hands on experience.

Yes, please, that would be awesome!

 

[kimxd]

I am friends with Bryan at The Fish Store in Chamblee. I can have his staff building it for you if you supply the materials.

 

[JPH]

Someone on here with good experience building acrylic tanks should hold a workshop somewhere. I'd be down to attend it. I think I want to build my own tank and sump.