The aquarium in the house adds beauty to design, and the small fishes swimming in it calm. If you decided to put an aquarium at home, but do not want to buy standard models, it is possible to make an aquarium own hands of that form which to you to taste.
It is required to you
- - 4 glass plates
- - special grinding stone
- - blades for cutting glass
- - good degreaser
Instruction
1. Now there are only two ways when pasting aquariums: walls are pasted on a bottom, and walls are located around it. The most popular and reliable is the second method, by means of it we also will do an own aquarium. For a start you need to grind edges of glasses in a workshop that it was possible to avoid cuts and also in order that around a wall bottom from glass densely met with each other. It is possible to process glasses and houses, but it will take more time. After the end of processing of the ends of glass carefully we wipe it, and we allow to be dried 1-2 hours then these glasses are carefully degreased by means of alcohol or acetone.
2. Then we take a bottom of future aquarium and we begin to stick together around it walls. For this purpose we squeeze out specially prepared sealant, and we smear with a uniform strip it on a face of our glass. If your glass wall has thickness a little more than 4 mm, then it is the most convenient to apply sealant by means of the 20th vat syringe. It will be able to provide the smaller thickness of a strip and also will protect you from cuts when you want to make an aquarium with own hands to bigger.
3. You leave glue to dry, and try to remove it from aquarium walls if it got out from one of the parties a little. At connection of the following glass parties of an aquarium it is necessary to watch that bevels and intervals between them were not formed. At installation of glasses it is vertically necessary to press them to a bottom that sealant thoroughly pasted them to the aquarium basis strongly.
4. After the done operations we leave our aquarium to dry for day then we fill in water there to check full tightness of a design. Then, if all checks on quality and durability took place successfully, it is necessary to take a knife and to cut off surplus of glue from glass on seams. Actually, to make an aquarium with own hands not so difficult. The main thing to buy necessary materials and to do everything accurately.