How to make an aquarium - Part 1 Preparing the glass

Now you could go out and buy a glass aquarium, there's nothing wrong with that; just like there's nothing wrong with paying someone to dig a pond for you, sure it makes you a bit less of man but you don't care right? WRONG! lets build this thing.

Joking aside building your own tank is going to give you so much more satisfaction plus you have total control over dimensions and in my case filtration.

The Plan

I am going to take apart an old dirty 10 gallon aquarium and convert it into an all in one high tech nano with a built in filtration section, that I intend to use to show you how the ecosystem in an aquarium is maintained also if I can throw together a dope aquascape then that's a bonus.

The Glass

As stupid as it sounds the cheapest place to buy your glass is probably by picking up a second hand aquarium, I'm re-using an old one of mine that is covered in hard water deposits and algae. I actually cut all my aquariums into individual panes of glass when I recently moved house. The livestock all went to new homes and all the equipment was dried out and stored.

Now that you've sourced your glass get to work in cleaning it up, here's a short clip of how I cleaned mine up with good old elbow grease (and a little vinegar)

 Once you've got it clean, and I mean clean you're ready to start siliconing this bad boy together...