300 gallon tank & occupants

[Jolley]

Re: 300 gallon tank & occupants

I'm really not too sure how it is done just yet. My tank is acrylic and I am aware that there are acrylic kits available to remove scratches. I don't have any experience with this just yet. But I will soon. :)

[J-WS6]

Re: 300 gallon tank & occupants

A year or so back I was house sitting for a friend and they had a 55 acrylic hex tower in the garage. I thought it was an interesting dimension, so I decided to set it up for the time being. The tank was covered in scratches so I took it outside and tried to scrub it off with an acrylic algae pad. It worked to a certain extent, but you could still see the larger ones. So, I reluctantly tried scrubbing the whole thing down with CLR. Success! This was the first time I'd ever used a kitchen cleaner to clean a tank out. I know most hobbyist wouldn't advise it, but it took away all the large scratches. If your looking at the tank a few inches or so you could still see the remnants of the scratch, but from a further distance the tank looked virtually new. After rinsing it out thoroughly for 45 minutes or so I filled it up and a few days later added fish. I threw in 3 misc. pseudo's and none of them ever died! I know your tank is a much larger volume than the tank I worked with, but if your acrylic kit doesn't work out for you, you should give this a shot, maybe on specific areas?

Just my .02 cents

Good luck,
J-WS6

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 300 gallon tank & occupants

At work we wet sand headlights all the time...though not acrylic but plastic(somewhat similar) and it works! I have even done DVD's and CD's at work.

Take it slow and try not to force it too much is what I have learned through overheating and breaking many CD's

[h0nkzz]

Re: 300 gallon tank & occupants

lightly wet sand the scratches with some 2000grit sand paper or higher and i like to use the RYOBI buffing compund from home depot. works like wonder on acrylics

[Jolley]

Re: 300 gallon tank & occupants

thanks, ek and honkzz.

There are some excellent instructions in DIY section of www.monsterfishkeepers.com that are very similar to what you both said. :)

[eklikewhoa]

Re: 300 gallon tank & occupants

Any updates?

[Jolley]

Re: 300 gallon tank & occupants

I haven't messed with the tank at all. But I have added a silver arowana and a ornate bichir. :) Oh, I gave the Myersi to my neighbor and I kept the redtail catfish. :)

I still need to have a "venting" party. I have actually been thinking about that a lot. Will decide on something soon. :)