so like the title says this is my first sump/fuge i have ever built i started off with a 10g tank and 5 peices of glass i bought five just incase i messed up(good thing i did ) i bought a glass cutting kit and a tube of sealant

here is the start dont mind the mess in the back ground



the first peice of cut glass



here is the first peice taped into place



here i have the first to taped in to place and started to seal into place



here i have all of the baffles in place



finshed pic




now that its finshed all i have to do is sit and wait to have my over flow box and return pump to come in
there will be more to come as i add the fuge/sump to my RSM 34 and the add a nc24 to the system to be a mangrove garden

very nice and simple. where did you buy the glass?

i'm going to be doing the same exact thing very soon! thanks for doing it first
haha

thanks i was going for simple i got the glass from from home depot it was 12X10 when i bought it i just cut it down and it was cheap to only 2.50 per peice

how thick are those panels? They look like a little flow could snap them

there just alittle thinner then the glass the tank is made out of but im not really sure

A simple sump design -- I like it --- many people put to many panes with a very small space in between for my likening -- you did a good job
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As for the thickness of the glass -- as long as there is water on both sides there is very little pressure -- no worries.

i was trying to make the most space for the fuge and i wasnt woried about the glass its pretty strong stuff thanks for the nice words

OK so I'm at it again today i decided to remove the back panel of my 24g nano cube because it has a crack for years but im going to drill the back for a over flow so im going to replace it with 1/4" acrylic. I had to first start by takking it down this was my hospital tank...

here's the tank at the start already drained



here is the the crack it held just fine with a little silicone



i removed the false back next this was way to easy it all most fell out and the silicone pealed right off the glass here it is out next to the tank



next thing i did was to try to remove the top ring lol this thing is glued on from the top edge of the glass
what a B#$#@ so scraping that idea i decided to cut the top trim out so i could remove the back glass
i tried to cut the seams but could not get my knife in between the two pieces so i hit it with a pair of hammer
and then took out the pieces so here it is finished you can see where i cut the top trim (witch you wont be able to see it from the front)




tomorrow I'm going to go get the acrylic and get it installed

I like it when somebody is not scared to get right to it and do some serious mods

Charles.

the way i see it is its only a piece of glass whats the worst that can happen and it was just sitting there daring me to mod it

Um are you planning on replacing the rear piece of glass in the cube with acrylic? If so you seriously need to rething that. You cannot silicone glass to acrylic. It will never hold. Silicone will not bond with any acrylic product. Just trying to save you some future headaches.

that is what i was planing to do but after doing some reading on some other post it doesnt look like that is going to happen i just didnt want to drill the glass

+1

For glass to silicone I have used Household Goop many times in the past. It will hold equally well to glass or acrylic but it's not as easy to make a nice bead as silicone is.

The only thing with Household Goop is a lot of debate weather it is really safe for aquarium use. They use to label the tube as "safe for aquarium use". But they changed formulas or got scared of being sued so they no longer label it as such. Either way I still use it with no ill effects (that I can tell anyway.)

As far as drilling glass, not a problem there. I have drilled many aquariums and there are numerous threads with full instructions. I would drill the glass before installing it that way if you mess up and crack it you can just drill another one with out having to take anything apart again. Glass that size is cheap. Go to a local glass shop and get a piece of 1/4" cut and polished to that size. Some glass shops will even drill a hole where you want it for a reasonable fee.

thanks for the input so i going to go to the local glass shop and have them cut and drill it for me. its just a small change in plans. i was actually worried about using the acrylic and it holding together

fuge is up and running i have one pic of it in the stand ill have more and more details later on time to get to bed

I assume there is enough room in the sump to accept the tank overflow when there is a power outage??

Fuge looks good.

yeah there is. The first test didn't go as well as i would have liked it i forgot to put a hole in my return line to brake the siphon but i fixed that and with all pumps off i still have about a 1-1 1/2g of room yea i made sure i tested that when i had my 125 i put a sump in and forgot to test it out power went out that nite and dumped about 5g on my floor so i will never forget to test that again

so i set the nano cube up next to the RSM yesterday and it just looks bad it doesnt fit in well at all. so now what to do? i decided that i was going to build a tank its going to be 23 1/ 2L x18W x 16H im going to drill it in the back for over flow and drain.

now for my question will 1/4" glass be thick enough for the tank if i did the math right this should hold just abut 30g the tank will be rimless