29 gallon DIY refugium

Building the Refugium - Now that the tank was ready, we started to convert the 29g into a refugium using plexiglass bought from Home Depot.

The first step in building this 29g refugium is to cut the plexiglass to make the refugium walls. A simple two wall refugium design was used.. This is what we came up with:

Scoring the plexiglass using the 29g tank as a straight edge:

Grinding down the edges to make them as smooth as possible:

Two 1/4" plexiglass walls ready for sealing..

After putting the two plexiglass pieces into the tank to make sure it fits, we noticed the bottom had too much of a gap so we shaved off some of the corner to make for a better fit.

We used two (2) Dap 2.8oz Aquarium Seal silicone tubes to seal both sides of the plexiglass.. The 29 gallon refugium *just* barely fits into the cabinet with about .25" space between the glass and tank stand cabinet walls.

Time to place the tank onto the stand & run the hoses to the refugium

Now to mix some salt and add the rocks.