New rack!

Man and I was thinking two tanks stacked on a welded angle frame would be head space issue, good for you. Do you use a little ladder to get up to the 20 or scaffold?

Now you got me inspired to crank up the tombstone and make one for two tanks, a 93 on the bottom and 60 on top. How much clearance did you give yourself from the top of a bottom tank to the bottom of a top tank frame and do you feel you have enough clearance to grab things and take them out? Thanks.
 
That is very cool!!!
 
Yeah but its all in fun and besides, I'm sure a lot of people could use a new rack.

hey I just noticed the recliner behind your rack, is that for hubby to admire the new rack? :cheers::cheers::cheers::):):)


sheesh, you guys are terrible!





biomajorstudent said:
Well, I'm sure the old rack was sagging under all the weight, so it is good she got a new one. Of course, the new rack will require some upkeep, but I'm sure her husband can take care of that.
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CWO4GUNNER said:
Man and I was thinking two tanks stacked on a welded angle frame would be head space issue, good for you. Do you use a little ladder to get up to the 20 or scaffold?

I have a ladder with 4 steps and hand rails (its also on wheels). I can hook dip and pours on it or put a bucket at the top if I need to.
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Now you got me inspired to crank up the tombstone and make one for two tanks, a 93 on the bottom and 60 on top. How much clearance did you give yourself from the top of a bottom tank to the bottom of a top tank frame and do you feel you have enough clearance to grab things and take them out? Thanks.
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There is 6" from the top of the tank frame to the ledge. They are also offset so I have more shoulder wiggle room. I have plenty of clearance for aquascaping/catchign fish. The only issue I didn't think about was placement of larger pieces of driftwood. Since most of these will be for qt/import/holding tanks, they will be minimally decorated so it won't necessarily be a problem for me but could be for someone with a different application.

dirtydawg10 said:
Ahhhh...nice idea!!
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:D Its getting there! The first rack's tanks are filling as I type this :D Hubby is out working on installment two of the 4 rack series!! To say I am excited about all of this would be an epic understatement!
 
msjinkzd said:
There is 6" from the top of the tank frame to the ledge. They are also offset so I have more shoulder wiggle room. I have plenty of clearance for aquascaping/catchign fish.
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Thanks, one last question. is your frame set up to slide an empty tank from the side, front, either-way, or do one of the metal braces come out then lock all sides in? I'm asking becasue I want to know if you have had any issues with sliding or having to set the tanks in the frames and any hind-sight preferences you wish you can chnage.

Nice woman-cave (basement) wish I had one. Im hoping to get away with angle iron stock I have on hand, it looks like you used tubular, Im not that good a welder LOL.

Thanks!
 
they are easier to slide in the side, they are made for that. You can get them in from the front but not if its butting up to a wall. When we had it free standing in the middle of the room it was easy either way. the first rack is installed in the corner (block back and on one side) so we had to slide them in. The only issue will be if a tank in the row gets a leak, then i am screwed, lol. I haven't had them runnign long enough (or even in totality yet) to know about regrets. So far so good. I am really happy and excited for this project to be completed.

My husband is doing the welding, he is not a pro but a pretty darn good hobbyist welder.

One the racks are done, the electric finished, the water header run, the siphon ports...etc, I will make one big honking "the fishroom is done <for now>" thread. Right now we are still muddling along.

Gotta tell you though, that linear pump is teh best investment I have ever made. I love that thing. Its so nice to get rid of most of my filters and be able to set tanks up (or break them down and just shut off the valve) for later.Its easy to to just keep a few extra sponges running in heavy bioload tanks to take out to start new tanks. So far so good! I will get some more pictures of the progress tomorrow (after I clean up my mess) which might explain what I mean a little better as well by the offset and the fit of the rack to the tanks.

My goal was to have them abut so that there was very little space between tanks in the hopes that this woul dhelp insulate. I am hoping to only have to use heaters on the end tanks and maybe the bottom row and even then it should only be in the winter. As it is right now, my tanks without heaters hang out around 72 so with just a little more insulation/heat they should be fine without heaters all year long (in the summer they are at about 77 with no heaters). Time will tell!
 
Thanks so much for the info and congratulate your husband as I'm very impressed with his metal work. No doubt that a central airpump and sponges may be the way of the future for everyone as energy cost continue to rise. I was even thinking of seting up a centralized system in the attic with airlines though the ceiling to each tank so that in the event of a power outage I could continue to run all tanks on one centralized UPS or Honda generator the sponge proving both aeration and filtration.

Again thank you and enjoy..
 
CWO - skip the Honda generator and go for nice gas powered Miller welder / generator. Roughly the same price, but if time came to sell it you can recoup roughly 80 - 90% of your investment vs. 50 - 60% for a generator, AND you also get a new toy to build more stuff!
 
in all seriousness its a great stand/rack/shelf/case
 
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