Return to Glass Box Reefing

Srfnhooker · Feb 19, 2023

Dom said:
The only thing that concerns me is that your tank is bigger than the one I've repaired, so, you're dealing with more water pressure.

The euro bracing is a good contingency plan. I'm just not sure how it would be secured to the tank. I've seen euro bracing on acrylic tanks, but those aren't glued on.

As I understand, with acrylic tanks, there is a clear liquid in a squeeze bottle with what appears to be a long needle on the end. That liquid is placed between the two pieces and causes some chemical reaction which makes the seam in the acrylic bond as if to form one piece.

I'll post some photos later.

Great. Euro bracing with glass would be done using silicone. My tank is glass. Yeah that acrylic "glue" basically melts the 2 pieces together. I look forward to your pics.

Dom · Feb 19, 2023

Srfnhooker said:
Great. Euro bracing with glass would be done using silicone. My tank is glass. Yeah that acrylic "glue" basically melts the 2 pieces together. I look forward to your pics.

Ok, so here are the pics. I decided to make it a separate thread so more people will see it.

Tank Reseal Project

So I recently reconditioned a tank for a new project I'm working on. And after a good cleaning, I realized that the silicon seal was looking deteriorated. So I made resealing part of the reconditioning. I've included photos below. Have a look... This is the tank that I started with. Bulkheads...

www.reef2reef.com