Facing tank Upgrade Decision

[kingfish]

Facing tank Upgrade Decision:

I have a tank of which I

[epleeds]

By my 110 rimless....hahaha. Seriously, I would check with someone like NAGA to see what needs to be done to cut up a tank and still keep its structure sound. That would make me a little nervous cutting up a tank to trim it up. Might just be easier to sell it and have him make you another one, if you want to stay with acrylic.

[DaveS]

I'm not an expert but I doubt cutting the existing tank down will be the way to go. Unless you think you can go rimless, you'll need to get pretty precise cuts to put a new brace on top (even an open eurobrace type).

 

I had a similar decision a while back with my tank. Similar size. The main question for you- what do plan on keeping in the tank? Softies? SPS?

 

If SPS, I would say save yourself the trouble of changing this and sell it to buy a glass tank. In addition to the work of modifying the existing tank, you'll spend lots of work scraping coraline from an SPS tank.

[Larry Grenier]

I agree that modifying the tank is not a good option.

[amay121]

Keep as is. The 36" would be great room so some schooling fish and you can get pretty crazy with some of the rock work.

[Coral Hind]

Are you planning on a deep sand bed? That would help with the depth issue.

 

 

[DaveS]

Keep as is. The 36" would be great room so some schooling fish and you can get pretty crazy with some of the rock work.

 

Based on what he said, it's 36" height- top to bottom. Only 24" depth front to back.

 

amay121's would be right if you could turn the tank on the side!

[steveoutlaw]

Add a piece of acrylic to cover the entire top, flip it on it's side and cut an opening. Now you'll have a tank 24" high and 36" deep!

[Coral Hind]

^^ That sounds cool. Give NAGA a call and see what he can do.

[Supernova26]

Why don't you build a stand that the tank will fit into for about 6". Than you can fill those 6" with sand and have a DSB that looks like a 1" sand bed.

[davelin315]

Just fill it less and keep the tank as is. You'll have a built in fish guard and you can hang your lights directly on the tank itself.

[FearTheTerps]

he might not want a deep tank because of maintenance reasons. reaching the bottom of a 36 inch tsank isnt easy, even for a guy like me thats over 6 feet tall.

[davelin315]

Oh, I totally agree, but cutting it down I think will damage it structurally. I'm no expert, but I think that you shorten the life of the tank that way.