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06-03-2008, 05:53 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Originally Posted by ReefSparky  Thanks Luna. I value your input.
I couldn't figure out how to make the stand any bigger. Structurally, you'd have to have the two boxes (top and bottom frames of the stand, as in my picture above) sharing the same footprint, and this must match the rim of the tank. I suppose I could have used 4x4's and "cheated" it a little, but it would have looked pretty tacky. After I add the plywood covering (or whatever covering I finally choose), the capacity of the stand underneath will be just as large as the tank above. There will be no center brace between the doors--something I've always wanted.
To answer your question, I don't plan on having anything else under the stand other than the fuge/sump, skimmer, and reaction chamber. One day I might have a calcium reactor, but that's not anytime soon.
Again, thanks for the response!!
Thanks to you, Horton, too!! (did that sound like Dr. Seuss?)  | It just seems like theres no more room with the tank there. But then again, You have placed the tank in the middle of the stand, making it look like theres no room. What I did was, I placed the W/D--sump all the way to the left giving me the room to the right. Thats where I placed the refugium a month ago. Not to mention that my W/d--sump is 30" wide, where as yours is 36" wide. Forget what I said before, you did a great job!! Luna _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | 
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06-03-2008, 05:56 PM
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| | Horrid Stonefish
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sun River,Oregon (Bend) Age: 35
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Good looking build sparky. Gonna be fun to watch it come together. | |
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06-03-2008, 06:35 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CT Age: 28
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Nice job on the DIY stand. That's just what my 2x4 DIY stand for my 55 looked like for the last 10 years until I moved and bought a cheapo one. Sides and doors never happened with my old stand. 
I'll be saving this thread so I can copy it if we do a 90. I was worried before about how to do this and having the overflow holes / bulkheads in the bottom of the tank not be in the way of the upper frame. I guess if they are far in enough, then they'll clear. _________  | |
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06-03-2008, 06:46 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Parma Ohio Age: 27
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nice plans and great setup...i think u will need to consider doors on either side of the stand to make every inch under yer tank accessible. I recently put together a 90gal with a 20long tank as my sump and i got maybe 6-7 inches on each side of my sump...sounds like alot but it isnt much use to me cause i cant get to it easily. If i had doors on each side...that would have given me a better chance to make the space useable for a calcium reactor or such. | |
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06-06-2008, 10:24 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: South Florida Age: 42
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Originally Posted by luvreefs23 nice plans and great setup...i think u will need to consider doors on either side of the stand to make every inch under yer tank accessible. I recently put together a 90gal with a 20long tank as my sump and i got maybe 6-7 inches on each side of my sump...sounds like alot but it isnt much use to me cause i cant get to it easily. If i had doors on each side...that would have given me a better chance to make the space useable for a calcium reactor or such. |
You know, I've read your response a few times but it wasn't until right now that I read it again and took your meaning--you're saying to put doors on either side. That's good thinking. Since the left side is against a wall, I'll probably just put a door on the rt. side. That will give me access to the right edge of the sump area. Great idea, luvreefs23!! Thanks!
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90G display tank. Kent Phos Reactor running carbon and ROWAPhos, Coralife 225 Skimmer, Typhoon 5 Stage RO/DI, 20 Gal Sump/Refugium with Chaeto/Caulerpa lit opposite daylight cycle. Coralife 2x150MH, 14K + 2x96W PC Actinics, Ecotech Vortech propeller pump, Hydor Koralia #2. | 
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06-06-2008, 10:27 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Coral Springs Florida Age: 16
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Originally Posted by ReefSparky You know, I've read your response a few times but it wasn't until right now that I read it again and took your meaning--you're saying to put doors on either side. That's good thinking. Since the left side is against a wall, I'll probably just put a door on the rt. side. That will give me access to the right edge of the sump area. Great idea, luvreefs23!! Thanks! | that is a good idea
Any pics on your progress? _________  | |
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06-06-2008, 10:59 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Irvine, CA
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Can't wait to see it up, looking great  | |
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06-06-2008, 12:08 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Looks good... _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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06-06-2008, 07:14 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
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06-06-2008, 07:15 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CT Age: 28
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I've been waiting on these pics. Nice job again. | |
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