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Old 05/14/2007, 06:38 PM
hatfielj hatfielj is offline
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Acrylic Frag Tanks?

Does anyone have a link to any online acrylic frag tank manufacturers that sell frag tanks in the size of 24X18X12? Thanks for any links you can provide.
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Old 05/15/2007, 12:51 PM
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Anyone know of anybody that makes acrylic frag tanks?
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Old 05/15/2007, 02:10 PM
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acrylic tank fraggin people?????
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Old 05/15/2007, 06:23 PM
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glass cages.
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Old 05/15/2007, 09:44 PM
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Stay away from glass cages. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE customer service. Not worth the savings in my opinion.
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Old 05/15/2007, 09:50 PM
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If your a little handy you could always go down to your local plastic shop and have them cut the pieces of your tank for you (make sure they know they are finish cuts). Then grab some weld-on and glue it together. Do a search in the DIY forum on working with acrylic, its not as hard as you might think. Good luck.
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Old 05/19/2007, 02:12 AM
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working with acrylic is easy if you follow some simple rules and start slow. I used www.melevsreef.com for most of my references adn just finished building a 9 gal sump. Total costs were around $300 whereas Tenecor wanted over $800 to build it for me. lvpd186 had it right. Go to your local acrylic dealer with your plans drawn up. They will cut it for you. Jointer all the gluing edges adn put it together. I'm starting my frag tank in 3 weeks 48"x 24"x 18"

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Old 05/31/2007, 06:28 PM
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[IMG]http://www.*************.com/tank_photos/new_prop_tank.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.*************.com/tank_photos/prop_tank02.jpg[/IMG]
We made our own tanks 15' x 30" x 8"
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Old 06/01/2007, 10:13 AM
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*************-- Give us some more pics if you can.... Nice looking set-up.
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