DIY Stand.. Under $50 and No Engineering Problems

[moxxommox]

all that aside, you have/had some nice setups dude =)

nice ..

 

[Miles]

miles... how come u dont have your tanks drilled and on one system

We have 16 of the blue PetCo tanks sitting on Andre's porch, I just need to find the time to plumb a new system and fix them all up. We plan on re-siliconing them and doing larger bulkheads for more gph.. Might be a few weeks in the making still with the new house and new job and everything else.. I do have all the isolated glass tanks and stingray pond set-up however

But yeah, those old shots were from my apartment..

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

 

[Lil_Stinker]

Nice creativity;

I had a similar setup when I was a teen; on carpet over hardwood. No problems with the floor & the carpet vacuumed back to shape when removed..

Had a 44 hi & a 30 long perched on top of it all..

No photos to share of mine, Not even sure there were cameras back then

 

[cichlid savage]

Wasn't sure i was going to like the stands when i read the materials list but those look awsome. I bet if you were to add an addtional column or 2 of blocks you could put a bigger tank on them maybe 150-180 gal.

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

very inventive!

 

[MV2006]

Thats a really good idea , the only thing I would have done diffrent is paint the face of the stand black.To make it look a bit more uniform.

Here is a similiar stand I made for about $50.. It held 4x55g tanks in a the bedroom of my apartment. Not as aesthetically appealing, but was very effective for the budget and space I had to work with at the time.

Hope these idears help..!

 

[vildotcom]

i had the same design for my 125 except i went a little overkill on the support. three collumns each with 4 cinderblocks, 4 4x4s and a plywood top.

 

[arlo]

ok so it CAN work. imma do the same thing with a 150-200 gallon tank. 3 columns, 8 cinderblocks in each column but set side by side so they would each be 4 cinderblocks high.

 

[carl_in_florida]

I have wondered why more people do not do this. You could suuport a monster easily this way. If you filled the blocks with concrete and spaned them with I beams you could sheath the stand with whatever and have complete access to under the stand without a center beam.

I wonder if any engineers out there could estimate how much weight four cement filled cinderblocks with two I beams could carry. My guess would be thousands of pounds.

 

[CHOMPERS]

I wonder if any engineers out there could estimate how much weight four cement filled cinderblocks with two I beams could carry. My guess would be thousands of pounds.

I am thinking that the person who started this thread must have been an engineer. I don't see any engineering going on here, but he was qualified to determine that there are no "engineering problems".