Plans for constructing a 125 gallon stand

Stands are pretty easy to build; you can make them as complicated as you want, of course, but you're basically just making a nice, sturdy box. For a 125 stand I would use 2 X 4's and 2 3/4" deck screws with wood glue. Make a top and a bottom like this:



Then cut six 2 X 4's to the desired height of the stand. Attach like so:



Of course it is very important that your stand is squared properly.

You now have a serviceable skeleton. Screw a piece of plywood to the top and you have a nice minimal stand, or you can skin the whole piece out with plywood and add doors and such for a cabinet-style stand. There's lots more you can do; it just depends how you want your stand to look.

Yeah; when you add the 1.5" for each of the long boards, the width of the whole assembly is 1" greater than the width of the tank.

If you're skinning the whole thing with plywood, it helps to add some vertical face boards, 7" shorter than the legs, at the corners and middle; these will give you something to nail the plywood to between the top and bottom.

Good catch, Mgamer. If you don't use a plywood back, you will need some diagonal braces in the back.

My only suggestion is to put the vertical supports on top of the frame rather than beside them like shown in that drawing. With something that weight you would rather have the wood bearing all the weight rather than the screws holding it up. Just my two cents.

Cover it with 1/4" Oak plywood and trim it out, then stain it Golden oak...
would look like a new stand.

Look at the link in my sig to see the stand I built out of plywood for my 125...