use 4x4 for the uprights and 2x6s for your crossboards 2x4s for corner angle braceing never bow or fall apart. could lag bolt it all together
Has anyone ever thought of a tank with a bed under it?
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I once thought of the idea of having a bed and tank custom built to where the tank would be on three sides of the bed and you would lay down and sleep in the bed and be able to look in the vast 20,000 gallon tank. Or in another idea I thought of having it where you would have a ten by ten foot bed room that is seven to eight feet high and all three sides to all four sides of it would be the walls of a vast fish tank. It would be set up to where the bedroom would really be a small room built into a giant fish tank like the 50,000 gallon tank. The ceiling of the room along with all parts of this bed room would be sealed air tight from the air from the giant fish tank so that the bedroom would take on that fish water smell.
I always pictured it being a bedroom where the walls are a giant fish tank and the bedroom is the one that is in the middle of the fish tank.
I remember see somewhere that company ATM built a "over the bed tank" for Chad Ochocinco...
http://www.sportressofblogitude.com...cinco-has-some-insane-aquariums-in-his-house/
http://www.sportressofblogitude.com...cinco-has-some-insane-aquariums-in-his-house/
Holy crap that tank for chad ochocinco is crazy cool. I think a bunk-bed style aquarium on top would be really cool but would probably cost a fortune to do it right. The best way to do it would be out of metal framing and have a supremely thick bottom to it so you could have a nice viewing window underneath without a bunch of braces running across it blocking your view. Personally I think having a tall tank as a footboard or have a nice big tank along one wall with the bed up next to it would be way easier and just as nice to look at in bed.
I'm glad i read this thread before posting, i was going to mention the Ochocinco bed too.
Depending on the size of the bed, and tank, you could have two columns on either side of the bed that would have metal crossbeams that ran inbetween them (large wooden ones would work too). The tank would sit on the crossbeams, front and back, to support the weight. Since there would be a high center of gravity, i would definately anchor something like this to the wall. The columns could hide all of the plumbing. if you didn't want a completely bare bottom tank, you could put in some small plexi deviders that come up from the bottom a couple of inches (almost like pony walls) so that you could contain sand on both sides of the tank and have the center be bare. Just my thoughts, sorry I have a hyperactive brain sometimes.
Depending on the size of the bed, and tank, you could have two columns on either side of the bed that would have metal crossbeams that ran inbetween them (large wooden ones would work too). The tank would sit on the crossbeams, front and back, to support the weight. Since there would be a high center of gravity, i would definately anchor something like this to the wall. The columns could hide all of the plumbing. if you didn't want a completely bare bottom tank, you could put in some small plexi deviders that come up from the bottom a couple of inches (almost like pony walls) so that you could contain sand on both sides of the tank and have the center be bare. Just my thoughts, sorry I have a hyperactive brain sometimes.
