big tank owners... hows this stand look?

Ok, so I am finally getting somewhere with my glasscages 240g project. I have the frame of the stand built and in the house. I'm thinking it should be fine but wanted to see from anyone else who may have built stands for some larger tanks.
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It basically has 8 vertical colums supporting it, its hard to tell but they are actually 3 2x4's arranged into 4x6 colums (well the corners are a bit different but still 3 2x4's each). I'd say I built it to hold up a car but that would be marginal... so I hope it can hold up a truck

Note that it isnt finished (its just the frame), will have pine tongue and groove around it as well as 3/4" mdf on top with some foam board on top that.

IceH2O said:

edit: Noticed the support beams are more towards the middle. I built mine at 16 inches on center just as a wall would be built which gives me 3 equal cabinets. Not saying it won't work but there is a lot of open space without support.

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Yeah, if I made them on 16" centers I'd probably not have tripled them up. But that wouldnt have left enough room to get my equipment in. I wanted to make sure I had enough room especially for my sump tank to go in and out if need be. Which I actually did goof in the design so I'm shopping for a new sump tank seing how I'm not taking that back apart. :wall: Just in what you see there I used 250 2.5" screws and still have to screw a few pieces in still since I ran out.

kj5kb - nice to see another ham radio op here... not that I have been on the radio in forever. And I'm also an Ohioan, just never changed my call sign. Anyhow yeah its going in the basement (family room). But I do plan on putting a 150G upstairs! But it'll be sitting over the main beam and supported with steel jacks (or colums or whatever the official name is). Thats the next project.

Ok here is a quick shot of the main supports FWIW.


Originally I just doubled up the 2x4 supports to make them roughly 4x4's. I thought this would suffice but I just didnt think it was overbuilt enough... and I had the great sturdy 2x6 across the bottom and 2x8 across the top with nothing between. So I cut out and extra 2x4 to fit in there tight and now theres 3 2x4's for every column:

(note that they arent screwed in yet in the picture)