I'm looking to remove my plastic black brace on my 150 gallon 6'x28" tank. All tips, tricks, experience or advise needed, I don't wanna wake up to all my fish and coral on the floor
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I will replace it with 3" glassOut of curiosity, what are you hoping to accomplish?
Removing a structural component from a 150 gallon water container seems... ill advised.
Out of curiosity, what are you hoping to accomplish?
Removing a structural component from a 150 gallon water container seems... ill advised.[/QUOTE[
It's glass to glass, the tank already comes with a plastic brace, that what I wanna remove and replace it with a glass braceRight on.
To my knowledge one cannot adhere plastic to glass and vice versa. There may be new technologies available, however, that I am not aware of.
Lucky for me I have a brand new tank, no water to remove, thank GodFor a euro brace you are probably going to have to drain the tank. You may not need the silicone to cure water tight but I'd at least want it dry to the touch if it were me. I have never done this.
The alternative fix for a running reef would be to replace the black plastic center brace with a clear acrylic strip. You can do that with the tank running, but again I'd drain it as much as you possible can first. Then cut the brace and bolt it in with nylon screws. I did this in 2007 or 2008 and my tank is still holding water fine but I was scared. The clear acrylic still casts a bit of a shadow but nothing compared to the black plastic.
This is not my picture, one I found on a google search but same idea :
ThanksDIY bracing would be better then asking a thin plastic strip to hold 1000LB's of pressure. In modern reef with modern flow and lighting those plastic brace deteriorate too fast. So I am all for this....Find out how thick your glass is and based on that you can cut strip of glass and silicone them on the top. Dont be afraid to go thicker on the eurobrace and make it longer. My eurobrace is about 2.5" and 1/2" thick glass. Tank is around 120gallons.
That's one of the questions I haveWould a 6' tank still require the center brace or is perimeter euro brace sufficient?
65 gallon tank will be a cake walk, it becomes problematic after 75 gallonsAny news on your Euro brace project? I'm thinking of doing this to a 65 gal I just got used.
YupNice tank, B! Is that a new tank from the one you bought last year?
65 gallon tank will be a cake walk, it becomes problematic after 75 gallons