10 Gallon Project Time! :)

As some of you know I discovered an un-used 10 gallon in my parents shed. Naturally lacking anything of substance to do at the moment -- Gotta love holidays . I appropriated it into my possession to become my new project.

I'm still un-sure as to what i'm going to keep in it, but thats a problem for another day, right now I've got to deal with a hole in the bottom of the tank. It has a pipe running through it as i believe at some stage it was used as part of a sump. My plan is to extend the pipe upwards and stick a valve on the end. Allowing for easy water changes.

I needed to build a stand to support the pipe running under the tank. I've constructed a H style support with a a solid base on top. All thats left is for me to stain it once completed.

Despite raiding dad's plumbing supplies I can't find what I need so I'm off to the hardware store tomorrow. So stay tuned, new update is coming...

 

picture time

Hmmm my first problem:


My top problem:


Support:


Base:

 

Sounds like an interesting project, to help with your pic problem, try taking the address for the pic e.g for your first pic take http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz174/mathender/10 gallon/IMG_3897.jpg and put at the end with no spaces.

e.g.

Alternatively you could just upload your pics to your profile here.

 

yea i got it, cheers

 

You could remove the bulkhead and put a new one on and an endcap, with the endcap on the inside of the tank.

 

It is a possibility, I'm going to sus it all out when I see what they have at the hardware store tomorrow

 

Well. I hit the hardware store today, was fun. Nothing beats a wander in the store
I got a ball valve for the bottom end of pipe --> should allow for easy water changes.

I also got some pipe and a joiner which i should be able to glue/silicon to the inside of the tank which will allow me to extend it upwards with some pipe.

Pictures probably tomorrow, Got to find my memory card...

 

This thread ended rlly soon lol... any thing new!

 

For all the work it seems like just getting the tank to be ready for water I would just swing by Walmart, or a local pet store. I can get a ten gallon tank for eleven dollars here.... Just what I would do. But keep us posted on the progress! Good luck!

 

It's not ended, real life got in the way. I've done a few things to the tank and its probably ready for a water test once the silicon sets. Pictures soon as i get a spare minute. This a has kind of been put on the back burner with my new lionfish. :S

Down in Aust. we don't really have that luxury, you could probably add a zero on the end of your figure if you wanted to get a tank.

Hopefully buy the weekend, stand will be assembled (sealed and ready to go, just needs to be put together) and the tank will be water tight.