Tank Question

[froggiez]

yeah but the closest petco from me is about an hour or more a way...*sighs...I may call and find out if they are and when it is and see if I can get out there...I live in a small town the biggest store we have here is wal-mart and the pet store is We Love Pets which is pretty overpriced...phooey...LOL

[bshmerlie]

I'm here in California and an hour away is nothing. We drive that just getting to work everyday.

[froggiez]

LOL...Depends on when they are having the sale.

[bshmerlie]

I'm just saying if you can get the tank at the dollar sale it would be better and look nicer than trying to glue two tanks together.

[froggiez]

yea you are probably right, I will check around about it.

[froggiez]

I just called the one I was speaking of and they said they aren't having the sale, they just had one in june.

[Kurt]

There is a 20-gallon extra high, it has the same foot print as a ten-gallon, but is twice the height. I paid $70 for mine. No, Petco does not carry this size.

Not too long ago, I made a tank. I bought a used 5-gallon and applied a silicone de-bonding agent called Lift-Off to it. I cleaned the parts all up and used the frames and the bottom plate of glass to build the new tank. I went to my local hardware store and bought four panes of glass that had the same lengths as the old panes, but these new ones are twice the height. I used silicone and glued all the parts together, so now I have a 11 gallon tank with a 5.5-gallon foot print. You could do the same, but I would get thicker glass then what a hardware store has to offer.