Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Tanks and Equipment => Topic started by: Mike on September 23, 2012, 08:41:13 PM
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Disaster! Today I managed to break one of the glass covers on my aquanano 40 tank.
Does anyone know of any cheap glass cutters? Or maybe plastic would be better.
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There should be plenty shops that cut glass, even B&Q. The problem would be the edges. Your broken lid would have bevelled edges to stop you cutting yourself, and places like B&Q cut glass to go in windows so they don't need smooth edges. Maybe try google, or even yellow pages and ring round a few shops see if they can do smooth edges.
Perspex is an option. The lid on my 25 litre betta tank broke (it was cheap and nasty ;D ) so I repalced it with a sheet of perspex. It works fine as a lid, it's just very prone to getting scratched. I got a 2 ft square perspex greenhouse pane from my local diy shop and cut it with a stanley knife.
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I found some Perspex at work today and cut to size. It's not perfect but will do for now. Cheers for the suggestions Sue I'll give them a look.
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Do make sure any shop can smooth off the edges of glass. My dad worked for Pilkington (as did most people in St Helens back then) so we had a lot of stuff in the house from the factory shop. We had 3 mirrors, two with bevelled edges one with non-bevelled edges and I managed to cut myself on that one more than once. Nasty stuff glass if you don't treat it right.