DRY LOK and Fiberglass Cloth

insead of using marine epoxy resin on my plywood tank can i use drylok and will fiberglass cloth and drylok stick together?

also will fiberglass screen work the same as fiberglass cloth

 

I would not try drylok. It is not reef safe, and even if not for a reef tank, I don't think it would be fish safe either.

Fiberglass screen, like from a screen door?

Fiberglass cloth is pretty cheap, and available at any hardware store.

 

thank you

 

the can i have says it's fish safe for use in ornamental ponds. just out of curiosity i made a plywood box and lined it with dryloc it held for 3 weeks with no probem but i let it dry for a week b4 water. it doesn't say reef safe only fish safe.

 

ive scrapped the plywood idea because i got a good price on a tank

 

Making a plywood tank requires a ton of time and dedication. Also, you need more patience than growing corals takes as well. To be honest, it even tested my patience at times and I am extremely patient.

I have heard of a couple folks using drylok, but that is a risk at best. The epoxy paint like I used is what pretty much all aquariums use, as well as for lining water towers for drinking water, and fish hatcheries use it as well. it is not cheap, but at bare minimum i would use that to line any plywood build. Adding an 1/8" or more of epoxy to seal the wood first like I did is the bulletproof way.

What did you end up getting?

 

i found a brande new 125 for 200 so im just going with that because i dont want to put a bunch of money into a project for something to go wrong as it always does and have to pay for a glass tank anyways

 

If you were looking at making a 125g, in the standard 6 foot size, a woody would not have been cost effective. The standard glass tank is a better buy, unless you really wanted to make your own tank.

 

yea i found a good price on a 125 so i decided to just buy it