anyone have 10 gallon stand plans?

[Hebdizzle]

I need plans for a 10 gallon, 20x10 stand, preferably in the medium ranged of difficulty to make. If anyone could post some I would appreciate it. Thanks!

hebdizzle

[scott]

I just built a stand for a twenty gallon a little while back. I don't have any plans but here is basicaly what I did. Four 2x4 for legs at thirty nine inches. I nailed them together with four cross supports, also 2x4s, top and bottom, and a center support. This makes sort of a rectangle almost like a box kite. I then nailed half inch ply-wood to it on three sides and the top, I chose the higher quality wood because I stained it and didn't paint it. That's it, it took me about four hours to do that and a hood. I had all of the wood in the garage so I have no idea how much it cost but a guess would be around thirty dollars (that good ply wood is expensive, but you don't want to use pressboard with water around anyway). I used four ninety six inch 2x4s and one sheet of ply wood. I don't know if this makes any sense but I hope it helps. You might just want to look at Big Al's though I know he has pretty cheap stands, you might be able to buy one for what the wood would cost.

[scott]

Stands are 39.99 at Big Al's plus shipping. There are also DIY plans on this web site. What I was talking, or is that rambling, about looks like plan A except I put in a cross suport for extra stability and of course added the ply-wood. HTH

[Hebdizzle]

thanks for the replies... I had looked at the ones at big als... I really don't want to pay for shipping though. I also went to Petsmart but the smallest stands they had there were for 20 gallons (well the smallest wooden one actually) and it cost 60 dollars. I dislike the metal stands so I am going for wood.

thanks for the help... I also found a website that you can type in the stand size that you need and it generates plans for you. I will post it on this subject, it is bookmarked on my other computer.

thanks!

hebdizzle