Beautiful day at the beach, driftwood and 160 litre aquarium

I have a few minor updates today. It was a beautiful and sunny day in County Wicklow and I took to the beach twice. Got this nice piece of driftwood with me home:

The 160 litre tank is finally repaired too, to my distress my first attempt failed. As I had removed the silicone around the leak I resealed the tank, however it seems that the old silicone was no good and the tank sprung a leak in a different location as soon as I filled it. I decided to remove all of the silicone and redo the whole job, this worked and I’m so relieved that it did.

The tank is now run by an Eheim Ecco pro 200 external filter, an Eheim 2x 100L/h airpump(one sponge filter), it has one 200w and one 100w heater.

The setup is far from complete but I’m glad it’s up and running. At the moment there is one large piece of driftwood and one Java fern along with guppies and bristlenoses in it but I’m planning for other inhabitants soon. This is how it looks now:

 

Previously I used a wooden cover for the tank, it looked good but was not really practical and I decided to line the top of the tank with wood and sawed out a lid out of Perspex:

 

The 144 litre is pretty much the same; I have however started to treat this piece of driftwood which will replace some of the wood in the tank:

 

That’s it at the moment, cheers for watching!

Melander

I have started to work on the 160 litre tank.















During Christmas it sprung a leak in the joint of the front and "side" glass.

I have stripped all the silicone in that corner, in retrospect I should just have stripped the inner silicone but I hope this will work anyway. I also stripped quite a bit extra were there was no leak.

When that was done I cleaned the area with acetone and let it dry.

With the joints all clean and dry I applied masking tape so that my newly applied silicone will get a nice straight shape.

The picture above is taken after the silicone was applied, I smeared it out using a glove and then ripped the tape of before the silicone had time to dry.

I really hope this will do it but just to be safe I'm going to fix plastic supports in the joints, I'll post a pic when that's done too.

After that it's just the leak test left.

Melander