Just a tip from a concrete guy when you were first epoxying you should never let your roller “get dry” like when it makes that sticky sounds and it isn’t going on 100% perfect… that could be an issue. Always make sure you have a ton on epoxy on your roller like you did at the end… the best way to apply epoxy also is with a squeegee and then use a roller for the edges if you don’t know how to use a trowel. I enjoy your tank and I hope everything works out for you man!

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I ended up with a 1/4” of epoxy in the base and it leveled out so it’s pretty smooth

I’m a concrete guy too and no one know the force that concrete has during a pour in between two forms, a lot of pressure and weight. Water does the same thing and I believe that using the fiberglass on the joints and corners could help too, you’ve gone this far don’t give up

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Looks like we are all concrete guys lol 😂 unfortunately I got rid of the fish and the tank is gonna go next. I’ve made my decision to switch to small tanks so I could focus on my aquascaping

@rigidstonerottweiler

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t give up yet, you put so much work into it, why stop now

@enriquecantu6000

4 ай бұрын

Sad to hear you’re taking the tank down. I’m really interested in knowing about the big plant you had in it. Where can I get one like that?

You need center support the whole length. To prevent sag

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

There are 40 supports under the tank. 16 on the back 16 on the front and 4 in the middle. Unfortunately it’s still not enough because I just ran into another issue

Looks good bro!

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Thanks bro

I got to hand it to you, you were brave doing it in the first place. I certainly wouldnt attempt it.

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 I know it failed but I’ll still try to build another one in the future

@justinstuart8382

4 ай бұрын

@@Scaping_the_six respect 🙏

Keep positive!

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Oh I am lol I took this opportunity to do a full rescape of the tank

I know it sounds nuts. But spray on flexseal.

Hey mate thanks for sharing the good and the bad, plywood aquariums is something that reslly interests me alot. Can I ask, did you use fibreglass reinforcing fabric over the joins? Also I saw thay you ran into another issue can I ask what happened?

@Scaping_the_six

2 ай бұрын

Hi, I did have fibreglass on the corners. My issue was I didn’t support the stand in the middle properly which caused it to sag and spring a leak. I’m keeping the tank and I’ll be fixing it in the future

@CopperheadCustoms

2 ай бұрын

@@Scaping_the_six did you see that The King of DIY is doing a massive 16ft plywood build? Here some about the issues that he sees people ha e and how to get around them.

Ouchi went through that on Christmas with my glass aquarium 😳Every aquarium hobbyists headache and heartache lol🤷‍♂️

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

It’s our worst nightmare but as long as you catch it quick enough it won’t cause much damage and you’ll save all your fish.

Damn at least its not a salt tank

what are the locks you used on the lids?

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

They are child cabinet safety locks from Amazon

surprised you didnt put an extra lot of fibre glass on the joints while you had the tank empty

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

I should have done that because it just leaked again today 🤦🏻 I’ll be posting a new video soon to explain my next move

@adeptusmagi

4 ай бұрын

@@Scaping_the_six ooch sry yeh any wood framed plywood construction flexes to some degree under pressure ive seen well over engineered shuttering for concrete work fully braced with acro's still flex out over night and leak down the joints some extra fiberglass tape on the joints should stop the slight flex from making even a pinhole size leak and once its dry maybe a bead of black silicon on the inside of all the joints (belt and braces job)

🔥🔥

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😘

Is this the first leak or did it leak again.

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

This is the first leak and hopefully the last. I just had this footage for a couple weeks

@dannyaquatics

4 ай бұрын

@@Scaping_the_six oh okay I thought you had already fixed it. I had seen something on the Facebook group. That's why I was thinking it had leaked on you again. That's great it looks great my friend.

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Ya thankfully it was only once lol

Why did you do just the bottom

@Scaping_the_six

4 ай бұрын

Because that’s where the leak was

@Sweetsfish

4 ай бұрын

@@Scaping_the_six ok I didn’t see that part in your video I saw where it looked like it was leaking from top I just built a 480 8’x4’x24” plywood tank. Sorry that happened man that sucks

Just Flex Seal it...😶