It's been a long time since I've been around here, I believe my last activity was back in 2007, and that was due to some "life going sideways" events.
Well, I'd been thinking about getting fish again for a while, and the other day me and the wife (read: gf) went out and bought a 75 gallon tank on a whim.
The prefab stands are crap, and I now have a better set of tools to allow me to build my own
So, a few days of planning and a couple days of hard work and the stand is making progress.
I caught some flak about the idea of casters, but the people who have brought it up, while making some good and valid points, seem to be under the impression that I'll be wheeling the aquarium all over the place full of water, substrate, etc.
I'm not.
This stand is also going to be bolted to the wall that it sits against, the casters are there for the purposes of moving the stand, and so that if (BIG HUGE IF) it needed to be moved I could do so without removing the actual aquarium itself, but it would in fact be empty.
The casters I purchased are 250lb rated. so 6 casters are good to hold up to 1500lbs.
To be honest though, I am still kind of on the fence about the whole caster idea. But that would put my stand 4" shorter than my desired 36"
However, all that aside, I would like some ideas on how to cover it and put doors on it, because I'm a little stumped on that part of it all and I don't just want to leave it open.
Well, I'd been thinking about getting fish again for a while, and the other day me and the wife (read: gf) went out and bought a 75 gallon tank on a whim.
The prefab stands are crap, and I now have a better set of tools to allow me to build my own
So, a few days of planning and a couple days of hard work and the stand is making progress.
I caught some flak about the idea of casters, but the people who have brought it up, while making some good and valid points, seem to be under the impression that I'll be wheeling the aquarium all over the place full of water, substrate, etc.
I'm not.
This stand is also going to be bolted to the wall that it sits against, the casters are there for the purposes of moving the stand, and so that if (BIG HUGE IF) it needed to be moved I could do so without removing the actual aquarium itself, but it would in fact be empty.
The casters I purchased are 250lb rated. so 6 casters are good to hold up to 1500lbs.
To be honest though, I am still kind of on the fence about the whole caster idea. But that would put my stand 4" shorter than my desired 36"
However, all that aside, I would like some ideas on how to cover it and put doors on it, because I'm a little stumped on that part of it all and I don't just want to leave it open.