diy aquarium repair

Hello, I'm new to the hobby and I decided to go with a saltwater tank for my very first aquarium. I recently bought an used aquarium and I'm working on it for some improvements. I made 2 support for bacterial nano rings and the filter floss, and 1 new compartiment in the wet dry box for the...

1st post here, sorry if any of this is re-post but I just want to be sure I'm doing things right. I bought a 180ish gallon used from a local store, it’s been dry stored in a garage tell I was able to get to setting up. Well life happened and it got moved 3 times and one of the top braces got...

I recently bought a used 220 gallon tank, it was up and running when I bought it with NO active leaks. The guy I bought it from said it was about 10 years old and might need to be resealed in the future. I really don't want to completely dismantle the tank when it has no leaks. Should I redo the...

I’m looking into building my own aquarium soon like tomorrow and couldn’t find a bottom glass piece 36x24 but was able to find a 36x24 3/16” Acrylic as a replacement. Can I use silicon to bond both acrylic and glass together? I would prefer the bottom be acrylic that way I can drop in holes for...

Hello everyone. I'm a long time lurker and first time poster, so if this isn't in the proper area please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I'm able. I've acquired a Red Sea Max 250 for trade. It was really dirty and it took me a while to clean, but as I was cleaning things I noticed that...

I have a used tank that was stored in a garage in a fluctuating climate so the seal is shot on it. You can also tell it has been badly resealed before by just adding a ton of silicon on top of the old. I started to remove all the old silicon to reseal it, which went fine on all the sides and...

Hi all! I'm currently attempting to do a small repair on an AIO acrylic tank. My goal is to re-seal the area in the picture, connecting the plastic return nozzle to the acrylic side of the tank. It needs to be a completely water-tight seal. I'm interested in using something with the same...

Hello everyone, I have a few questions! (TL/DR at bottom) I started my first reef aquarium in a 20G and everything is going great. Got upgradeitis and decided to buy a second hand aquarium and I got everything for really cheap, including the sump, stand, skimmer etc, and everything was up and...

I had my SCA 150 set up for 10 months and had to break it down at the end of August '19 to move from Georgia to Michigan. Here is my original build thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/matts-natural-reef.488794/ I decided to move the tank and stand together by lifting the stand with a...