Pook's Frag Display Tank for RAP

[pookstreet]

I made this out of scrap acrylic pieces that I had lying around. The 4 sides are 3/8" and the bottom is 1/4" black acrylic. I wanted to try a black bottom to see if the makes the frags stand out more. It may not do anything special, but I had the acrylic lying around anyways.

The dimensions are 27"Lx24"Wx11"H. Water will probably only fill up to about 8-9 inches so there shouldn't be a noticeable bow. It's definitely an improvement over my ghetto plastic tub from Target that I used at the last CFM.

Check out these pix and let me know what you think. Thanks.

 

[pookstreet]

The edges are chamfered instead of rounded.

After a bit of buffing wheel action.

My old display tub

 

[timmay]

Looks good to me...Great DIY job

 

[EyeReef]

Wow Kenny thats impressive...you should make a few more of those and sell them too

 

[ASommers]

Looking really good, Shouldn't this be in the new DIY forum

 

[sps_addict]

very nice kenny, what did you use to polish it with? i've used different grit sand paper and then the novus 3 step and it takes forever. wondering if you have a quicker way. haha, and i am not sure how to fire polish the edges.

 

[pookstreet]

Thanks everyone.

Mike, unless I mass produce these, it's not really worth it in terms of time to make a few for sale.

Steve, for polishing, I first used a straight metal file and flatten the uneveness. I may or may not use sandpaper after that depending on how smooth I need it. This is not a display tank to be view every day so I stopped after the filing. I then used a polishing wheel with Tripoli compound to polish the cut edges. You can get a brighter polish by following with Jeweler's Rouge but once again, this wasn't meant as a display tank. I haven't tried flame polishing yet and probably won't b/c it could get expensive. Plus I heard that it weakens the intergrity of the acrylic.

 

[orangereefer]

Very nice. Maybe someday you can teach me how to build things out of acrylic.

Mel