The chicken wire needs to be attached (hooked) at the top and bottom to the Malla Lac uprights.           

Once the chicken wire is in place, it will need to be kinked also to tighten it down to the mold. 

The Chicken Wire needs to be stretched tight against the mold.  This is extremely important.

The Chicken wire should be taut like a guitar string, if you pull on the wire it should snap back in place

Any uprights from the malla lac that stand up too high over the mold will need to be bent over using pliers.

This photo also shows how at times  you  may  need  to add a piece of galvanized wire to  the top and  how it also is kinked.

The finished tank mold when properly put together, with malla lac and chicken wire taught should look like this photo.

Note: At some point in tank making, you have to use up the chicken wire that has been cut off of other tanks. 

You will have to "sew" (bend edges around edges)  3 to 4 strips of chicken wire together to use for a tank.