Acrylic box for aquarium

[JamesB]

I am wanting to take a perfectly good tank and drill holes in it. Water, glass, electricity combined - what can go wrong? I am wondering if any member might work with plastic sheets and would make a black overflow box? It would be around 8x4x5 made from one quarter inch sheet.
If it works I will be on my way to a beautiful reef tank, if it doesn't work I will have a 3 sided glass box, a hole in my wallet, and an angry wife.
Hmmm.maybe I should just buy the reef ready tank and have only the hole in my wallet. Nah....

 

[mikebpeters]

Reef Tank

Hi,

I'm an avid reefer and have a 265 gallon mixed reef running right now.

sounds like you want to mix acrylic and glass? that doesn't often work well.

How big a tank are you looking for and what is your budget?

Seems to me like your best bet if you don't have your heart set on a very specific set of dimensions would be to search your local reef group websites, craig's list etc and something will pop up.

If you have a glass tank you can get overflow kits for them, either internal or external.

Good luck regardless.

 

[Rchan63]

HI james

I been keeping a mix reef tank for 13yrs right up until 2010 when all my sps crashed. But you should join a reef club and one good one is call Reef Central. It's HUGE and it covers a wide area of the USA. Depending on the size of your overflow I don't think 1/4" acrylic is enough. I used to build my own sumps, reactors hospital tanks. Need more information.
I also belong to a local reef club Boston Reefers dot org. It a local club but a great bunch of people and have tons on information.