I'm sorry you feel so strongly about it! I admit, this was my first fully enclosed fish tank stand. It was designed with a childrens room in mind. What kind of things do you feel would improve on it? It is fully set up to contain lighting and filters, and any other tank hardware. I used marine grade wood under the cedar quarter logs, and a non toxic lacquer. Most of our items are custom order, but I love new projects! So any input on the functionality would be excellent! Except the priceIt was over $150 in materials, and just the actual building was over 10 hours.
We have done a few simple stands, with no top or sides, and shelving or drawers underneath.
Thanks for any input!
Lol, your welcome for the input.
Improvements in the future? Not use any of the ugly multi toned/colored cedar logs on the outside. You can use any old finish for an aquarium stand, toxic or not, it's not going in the aquarium. And as far as marine grade wood, it's a 15-20$ 20g aquarium. You could have spent 10$ at Home Depot or Lowe's on 2x4 to build the inside structure of a stand that is more than capable to hold the weight of a lil' 20g tank.
You've essentially wasted a butt load of money on expensive materials that you could have bought for under 20$ (minus the ugly two tone/colored oak since I don't know how much that material goes for) @ HD or Lowe's and wrapped those expensive materials around a 15-20$ used aquarium and expect someone to pay 250$ for it. You can't expect someone to pay for your choice of materials that were hardly necessary for a simple stand that doesn't need to hold more than 300lbs. Also, the bottom and top pieces that run the top and bottom of the tank opening with those weird circle swirls are quite ugly.
