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Old September 29th, 2009  
Fish Helper
 
Making a fishtank...

At the prices aquariums run for wouldn't it be smarter to just buy glass at home depot and the silicone you need and put it all together? Just a thought... What do y'all think?
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Old September 29th, 2009  
Fish Mentor
 
It's actually not cheaper..lol..I checked this out myself...On the LARGE tanks, REAL LARGE it does get cheaper, but IMO not cheap enough for all the work it takes.
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Old September 29th, 2009  
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I merged the threads and moved them to a more appropriate section of the forum.
You should get more replies here in the DIY forum.
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Old September 30th, 2009  
Fish Bum
 
Making your own being cheaper.. hmm hard to say cause it really depends on the size of the tank you are wanting.. If you are talking in the 300+ there are ways to make it cheaper. If you are looking for say a 55gal or 75 gal.. Look on craigs list. Glass get expensive specially once you start adding height to the tank.
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Old September 30th, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
Actually I think it would be cheaper if you go bigger than that but not sure if HD would carry glass for aquarium use.
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Old October 1st, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
Its great for making odd shaped or odd sized fish tanks. I made myself a small cube. But it takes a good amount of work, and you gotta be pretty handy to get it perfect. Not terribly difficult, but does take some work. You have to make sure all of the seams are almost perfect, as it would be holding multiple gallons of water once completed. And you don't want a flood inside.
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Old October 1st, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
Buy a used tank! Keep is simple and cheap
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Old October 1st, 2009  
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How Do I: Build a tank?
Build Your Own Aquarium, Part 2: The Tank
Hello Ilikefish. Above links may help you if you haven't seen them already.

I just deleted 2 of your posts that were duplicates of the original post #1. Was there a reason that you posted the same thing 3 times? Is this one of the threads that you thought was deleted? (was actually moved to the proper forum section). Just curious.
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Old November 16th, 2009  
Fish Lore Newbie
 
Build tanks is fun. This is my latest build. I got the glass for free from the local hardware store, to scratched to sell even though you can barely notice. 15 gallons.
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Old November 17th, 2009  
Fish Bum
 
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Build tanks is fun. This is my latest build. I got the glass for free from the local hardware store, to scratched to sell even though you can barely notice. 15 gallons.
hey nice tank you have there are you sure it DIY cos it look so nice. good work there.

I like the light house you had there too. simple and nice looking tank.
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Old November 17th, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
I thought of building my own tank some day too. I'd say bigger is cheaper than a small one but a lot of hard work though especially when the glass are big and heavy. Gotta be careful.
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Old November 17th, 2009  
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Oh yes 100 percent home made. The corners and bottom trim are made out of aluminum angle iron and the wood for the hood came from the dump. The light cost 10 dollars at lowes. Total id say it cost about twenty dollars for the tank and hood. It would be more of coarse if I actually bought the glass.

My next project is putting a glass bottom over the slate in a newly acquired leaky 55g metaframe tank. i heard it was easier to just reline the slate with glass then trying to seal directly to the slate.
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Old November 17th, 2009  
Fish Keeper
 
@chuba - i dont understand what you mean by relining the slate

if your interested in DIY aquariums, plywood seems to be the way to go, price wise.
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Old November 17th, 2009  
Fish Lore Newbie
 
Reline as in siliconing a piece of glass on top of the existing slate bottom. Then sealing the glass to the sides. silicone does not seal very well to slate from what I have read.
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