Mo’s Reef 2

[Mo.]

Ready for the front panel.

This is a tricky manoeuvre due the multiple glass edges butting into the face panel.... easy does it.

Nicely into position. No damage!!

Perfect!

Uh huh!

 

[Mo.]

Final aligmnments.

Quality control!

Lovely!!

 

[jmarina]

What an incredible build, I will defiantly be following along. Congrats!

 

[Mo.]

One of the corner clamps.

A slight adjustment was made to this panel before glueing.

A close up of the silicone through the two base panels. This filled between the glasses all the way along with no gaps.


A nice close up of the gap between the panes before filling. This sticks the base down to the plywood sheet as well.

 

[Mo.]

What an incredible build, I will defiantly be following along. Congrats!

Thank you.

 

[Mo.]

Large amounts of silicone. It passes throguth the glass panes and seals the plywood to the base as well.

The joint is then filled and cleaned.

Here you can see the joint filled with a surrounding thin layer of residual silicone.

Care is taken to ensure the corners are well filled.

Once filled, the alignment brace is placed.

Just a thin collar of residual silicone.

All four faces panes were placed and siliconed and the corner braces placed to align everything.

Clean joint.

 

[lubeck]

Will you have a top brace? if not. How do you get away without having one?

 

[Mo.]

Cleaning the outside joints

Clean!!

You can see how clean the joints are.

Micky Boy!!

 

[jacky.l]

The new tank is not built in the same way as your old one，I remember the previous one had a metal frame, and the glass at the bottom was arranged in a different way.

 

[Mo.]

The new tank is not built in the same way as your old one，I remember the previous one had a metal frame, and the glass at the bottom was arranged in a different way.

You're right!!
Different tank builder this time......

 

[Mo.]

OK, so for all those wondering, here we have one of the lower brace bars with the corner being bevelled to fit.

8ft lower brace bar....

Nicely bevelled corner.

Silicone going on.

Second row of silicone....

3rd row.....

and down it goes,,,,,

pressed into place....

Fill in the gaps.

and a final heavy press!!

and a clean up....

Onto the next one....

That's 3 down......

and 4 and .....breathe!!!

Nice work Mick!!!

 

[McPuff]

Wow!

 

[Mo.]

I've had a lot of people ask if this is going to be a braceless tank. Here is the answer......

 

[Mo.]

OK.... more braces going on to complete the layer of Euro bracing around the tank.

Carefully does it not to touch glass on glass!

Positioned and levelled. It was then siliconed.

 

[Mo.]

Just when you thought it was finished.......

 

[lubeck]

How’s it going

 

[lubeck]

how’s the tank ?

 

[lubeck]

Everything okay with the tank.

 

[Mo.]

Hey- it’s going well.

I haven’t had time to post, but will dig out the final build photos and show some progression shots.

Cheers
Mo

 

[lubeck]

Glad to hear things are going well! Excited to see it finished and what the tank looks like now.