A friend of my boyfriend's dad just gave me a 100 gallon tank. The catch? The bottom of it is cracked and spiderwebbed out to the edges. It's still sturdy and in one piece aside from some tiny splinters but the cracks need strengthened. It's extremely dirty (still some mulch crumbs! and there are some shards of glass in there too), has calium buildup all over it... It has sat unused for like 10 years. It has a hinged door on one side of the top made of plywood and screen, but there is nothing on the other side. The door is in great shape...

So my mission?
-Clean it up
-seal the cracks in the glass off with epoxy
- adhere a board of some material to the inside to further strengthen it
- Turn the tank on it's side to just about double the amount of floor space, build a hinged door of the exact same dimensions on the other side
- replace the old chicken wire screen with new window mesh screen.
- apply background to the bottom (which will actually be the back) for a finished look

I figured I would allow others to watch my progress with photos... Here is the tank as of tonight: