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At last, the big tank is back
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, 12-02-2012 at 12:07 AM (8591 Views)
The 400g arrived yesterday, and this morning I uncrated it as I awaited all the volunteers that offered to help bring it inside. I purchased bottled water, sodas, snacks, and even had cash to give to all my helpers, but they declined that latter offer.
It was carefully crated, and I took out about 100 screws to remove the plywood walls protecting it during its trip to my house.
This eurobracing now has an extra cross piece near the overflow teeth, and the black acrylic panel is less wide than the tank internally. There's a gap about 3/4" on both ends, filled with black silicone.
The overflow box walls are made of thinner glass, which alters how the box is bonded to the walls of the tank, which should avoid the shared silicone seam from the previous version.
We used 14 suction cups, provided by Frank's Tanks and Fish2morow (both excellent Fort Worth fish stores). Furniture dollies were strapped to the tank when it was on its back panel, and it was carefully fed through the front door and rolled down the hallway into the livingroom.
Everyone was helpful when it came time to lift it onto the 38" tall steel stand, and we nudged it back and forth until it was aligned perfectly with the wood platform that tops the stand. Here's a quick iPhone picture I shot this evening. I promise to post more DSLR images of this tank before I start to fill it up.
Behind the tank to the left, you can see the 215g still in place where the livestock resides for the past few months.
If you check out this page of the volunteer thread, you'll see pictures Uchin posted when he wasn't busy lifting: Click here
More to come...
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