Best Aquarium Fish - Supplementary Materials
Supplementary materials You will require the following materials for the gluing process: - methylated spirits or acetone, for cleaning the panes before gluing; - clean rags or absorbent paper; - cutter with a fine blade; - sticky tape; - small receptacle for water; - set square and tape measure. When you have assembled all the necessary materials, you are ready to go on to the construction. Prepare a work surface large enough to allow you to spread out the panes and move around freely. It is advisable to get somebody to help you by holding the panes.Sticking the various elements together (see panel overleaf). Installing the box filter There is very little left for you to do, for the moment, apart from installing a box filter. The filtration system can be planned at the gluing stage or added afterwards. It can be placed on the right or on the left and must be hidden by exterior trim, such as a wooden facing that matches the aquarium and its support. Its volume must not be less than 1/10 of the total volume of the aquarium, if it is to be completely effective. Inside the tank, you must add the following parts, cut from 3 mm thick glass: - a glass panel separating the filter from the rest of the aquarium, with a perforation to allow the water to flow through. Going back to the example of the two tanks which served to illustrate the gluing of an aquarium, the dimensions of this panel would be: 28.7 x 38 cm for the 96 liter tank 38.3 x 48 cm for the 200 liter tank. - four strips of glass intended to hold the filtering material (3 cm wide and 38 cm long for the 96 liter tank; 48 cm long for the 200 liter tank).These elements must be mounted in accordance with the diagram below (if the filter is to be on the left of the aquarium), with the glass strips in pairs facing each other. They must not be more than 8 cm apart. The distance between the perforated panel and the closest side is 8 cm for the 96 liter tank and 10 cm for the 200 liter one. Note that the box filter is slightly lower than the main tank, to allow the water to circulate.
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