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Another thing, plywood, especially marine plywood is a great material if it is coated with a 2 part epoxy paint. If the paint will be exposed to the contents of the tank, make sure it has a NSF rating for potable water, (safe for human consumption, the water that is).

I couldn't tell from your post what exactly you are wanting to use the aluminum for. But, there are many metals and alloys that corrode very quickly when exposed to salts of any kind, aluminum especially. For example, rarly is aluminum used on salt water fishing boats, stainless steel fittings...

Here is one option you may have. I have never chose to own a acrylic tank because of the scratch issue. But, it sure does have some advantages over glass. They both actually have their own plus and minuses. I'm building a 115 gallon at the present and I chose to go with a different kind of...

Menagerie is right on, it doesn't sound like you even had a stable cycle before fish were added to me, not a critical mistake, but one that can be corrected. There is no way beneficial bacteria will colonize without the proper input, hence fish waste, ie ammonia. For a 30 gallon, it almost...

I'm not sure if this is a explanation or not. Here in Central Florida we have artesian springs that flow from the aquifer, some at the rate of 500k gallons a min. A few of these create small rivers that we canoe and enjoy the constant temps all year round. Pleco's have found their way into...

QTOFFER hit it right on. Not sure if a overnight dip with a rock will give a accurate reading or not. Limestone probably won't effect the PH overnight in a rock form vs. powder, but it will over time.

Thanks Billy! It was alot of fun getting the water flowing and so far, so good on that part. I quess the next step will be finishing the backdrop with the granite. There may possibly be another feature of some kind as there is lots of room in the tank left. I'm up for entertaining any ideas...

Waterfall Experiment Part 2 Up And Running Got the waterfall feature of the vivarium up and running last night and will be testing it over the next couple of days. I got the splashige down to about zero now, still a little tweaking to do to make it a hair more quiet. So far the water and fog...

It should be safe, I've never heard of a mildew retardant in the grout, only in the caulk and silicone for use in high moisture areas. It would be worth making sure though.

I think it looks great! I've never been a big fan of store bought backgrounds or just painting the back with black spraypaint, which I've done several times early on. A nice touch you added to the tank, nice goin'.

Dead thread, Text pasted to Sumphead's Sticky Thread.

Mighty fine work Sumphead! Great work, great pics, you got it down with working with this material. I killed the thread I started and added the text here to the Sticky for what it's worth. Scott There were some excellent suggestions on Eddie's DYI Sump Thread, I didn't want to threadjack his...

Looks to me like you could set alot more than a 20gal on there. You build just like I do Kasa :lol: , too much is just enough. Less 200lbs of water somewhere you don't want it right? Nice work!

Fearless, one suggestion might be is to mix up some tile grout and coat the cave with it then use the same color sand on it while it is wet. Once dried, it will be more like a non skid surface, the sand shouldn't come off, I say shouldn't, it has worked for showers and baths I've done.

Waterfall experiment part 2 Problem solved Billyz and I thank you for your input, you were right, the extra water level on the ultrasonic device made it struggle but it wasn't the backflow of the condensation, it was my misdoings. The lower part of the humidifier was overfilling as the top...

I forgot to mention that I haven't had that great of luck getting silicone to stick to acrylic like other materials. Maybe sanding the finish of the acrylic would help it stick better, not sure on that one.

There were some excellent suggestions on Eddie's DYI Sump Thread, I didn't want to threadjack his post, but I thought the subject worthy of a thread in itself. Being new here, I would guess this subject has been brought up before, I hope I'm not beating a dead horse. I had mentioned that I was...

Experimenting with a waterfall setup Started tinkering with a waterfall setup and threw some rocks in there to keep the splash down for the time being. Here is a shot with the fog effects going on. Let there be fog!

I've been using a jigsaw with a fine tooth blade in it. I had a 10 tooth per inch one and it shattered 1/8th inch acrylic. I think I have a 14 or smaller tooth blade in it now and it's been cutting the 1/4 inch stuff pretty well. If you cut it fast or at low speed it won't melt back together as...