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lolz, I made a glovebox thats ghetto ghetto ghetto!

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So basically I'd kill to have a box like yours. 

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You can easily make one - no killing necessary (sad to say).  Here follows the listing of parts needed & approximate price list:

one 10 gallon glass aquarium                $10.00
two large tobacco tins (cardboard
containers the size of coffee cans):        ??? (junk pile)
one roll of duct tape:                            $3
one pair rubber gloves (pref.
neoprene or something like that):          $3
one tube of silicone sealant:                  $4
one piece of cardboard 12"x23"            ??? (junk pile)

Rough Total:                                    ~$20.00

I just scrounged up the tobacco tins & cut the bottoms out, glued & taped the gloves to those, cut a piece of cardboard from a box, trimmed it to fit (the dimensions you'll need are a bit less than I gave above, so that's allowing the trimming to fit part), then measure & cut the round sections to slide the cans/cylinders through w/the gloves.

I actually used hot melt glue, IIRC, and then coated it over w/silicone sealant, then taped over that.  I used Duck brand Duct tape because I inadvertently discovered the adhesive mix they use is mostly impervious to dilute bleach solutions & ETOH/lysol sprays....This might be true of all duct tape brands, but I haven't bothered conducting tests or anything

Oh - another thing:  the piece of cardboard I used is double-corrugated (like, it was the side of one of those boxes you use to pack dishes & shit in when you move - thicker, holds more w/o giving way).  If you use thinner cardboard, I'd probably recommend you double it up, and glue/tape it together pretty well.

If you trim the cardboard precisely to fit into the notched top of the tank, you'll find that a single wrapping of duct tape around it will form a *very* snug, airtight seal.

Total time from start to finish of that project (not counting time for sealant to dry):  about an hour.

While it works fine, the only thing I wish I'd done differently was lower the armholes about 1".  For a 10g tank, that'd make the outer edge of each armhole's circumference circa 3" from either side, and circa 2" from the bottom, IIRC.

HTH,


~YSJ~

 

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Ghetto Cubed, then?

;D

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LOL! 

Looks fine to me. Even if it isn't ebola virus proof, its better than nothing.