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Where would I be able to get the rubber seals at? Is that something I could pick up at lowes or would that be a specialty item? I'll post pics when possible but everything is set up so I won't be able to take pics of the problem until its tore down.

Today I attempted to put my new setup together. This is my first built in overflow/sump setup and needless to say I had a couple problems. After the sand, foam rock wall, and water was in, I discovered that I was leaking water from where the pipes go to/return from the sump. So, my guess is that...

I also questioned the epoxy, but the overwhelming majority told me to go into a hobby store and buy a basic two part epoxy. Everybody says that their tank has done fine with it - you just have to let it cure for a few days first. I'll def. let you guys know if it starts wiping out my livestock lol.

So I finished foaming last night and this is the finished product. I am pretty happy overall, yet I still have a lot of foam sculpting to do. I used all 3 cans of "great stuff" foam on it - half of which is stuck on my hands (wear gloves if you are going to try this). After I sculpt the extra...

I started foaming this evening and now I'm letting it cure enough for me to flip it on its back so that I can cover the back wall.

So I ran out of daylight to start foaming/ziptieing the rock in outside, but I did manage to finalize my skeleton and do a "practice" run (I was extremely bored and anxious!). So here are a few pics of all the materials and some of the larger pieces of rock that I'm going to be adding. I'm going...

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Hey guys, I'm completing a big part of my build tomorrow. I have the skeleton cut out and will be ziptieing/foaming the rock to it tomorrow. I'll probably epoxy some sand on it Thursday so it should be done by Friday. Here is a new link that I started. I"ll have tank and stand pics on Monday...

Yeah, thats what I'm hoping. This is actually only 30" long and 18" wide, so I think it should be ok. I'll let you guys know how it goes this weekend. I'm going to measure before I put water in and after. Should I expect ANY bow? What I mean is, does a regular tank bow even a little bit?

The work will be minimal. Get two pieces of acrylic cut for $2.75 a piece, buy some nylon screws and nuts, and drill some holes. I guarantee that this will be stronger than it was before. Plus, this isn't your average p.o.s. 55, this is a 56 column and I doubt I'd be able to find a new one for...

Originally Posted by spanko 1/4" acrylic sheet and nylon screws and nuts. Looks like I'm probably going to go with this. I actually even thought about doing acrylic above the plastic and below, kind of like a sandwich effect for added strength. Don't know if that would help out any more....

Originally Posted by beckto Wahoo, what are the dimensions of this tank. If its not like the standard 55g, then this could be less of an issue. I would still fix it, but I wouldn't lose any sleep, if this tank isn't as long as a standard 55gal. This is actually a 56 column (I believe that is...

Originally Posted by Cranberry You don't need to buy a new tank, you just need to rebrace it. You can do this with a piece of acrylic if you wanted to, cemented together to form a | [hr] | shape. Make sure it fits nice and snug. Should I just do it over the original plastic like that link...

What about this guys - http://www.rasoc.org/modules.php?nam...threadid=10655 Here they just place acrylic over the existing plastic - mine looks close to these, but I have left even more plastic than they did. It sounds like my tank would have been running a good risk of this happening anyways...

The tank is glass.

Ok. What can I do that this point? I cut about a 3 inch piece out of the center. I was thinking maybe drilling holes in the two pieces that the middle attached to, and then running wire between them. Any thoughts?

So I'm going for the rock wall build on my aquarium. The middle section was already very weak from the heat that my halide put on it and on top of that, it would make my life a heck of a lot easier when installing my foam rock wall background. So I went ahead and cut a part of the middle section...

As some of you know, I picked up a reef ready 56 gallon and have have decided to take on the foam rock wall for the background. After the tank stabilizes from the transfer of livestock from my 75, I'm going to be adding corals and hopefully make it a slammin' reef tank. Here are my materials...

Will do. I'm going to do an overall reef/rock wall thread and it will start this weekend. I'll probably get to the main part of the rock wall after my big paper on Tuesday, and the whole thing will need to be complete by April 19.

I'm going to do a combination. I have a bunch of "live" lace rock that I'm buying from a guy Saturday. I'll probably use some bigger pieces and ziptie those to the eggcrate. I'll then foam some smaller pieces to make it look more filled and then foam any leftover space. I'm also going to...