Built the stand today when I got off of work. May still add a few supports, but it was mostly left over material. Top of the stand is 3/4" plywood, very flat, no noticeable deflection. Christmas gift from work was a notification that I was getting the boot. Today was actually my last day.
Anywhoo, I'm not even sure the stand will fit through our door. Might have to partially disassemble to move it, but obviously I wanted to test fill outside. My girlfriend was definitely convinced that she would drop her end and an instant relationship ender would occur. Gotta love the woman for letting me build a new tank after sooooo many years....
If I manage to avoid catastrophic failure and subsequent wrath of the better half, I'm thinking about other projects. A bigger 6x3 footprint would be neat, but I would have to check my larger pieces of glass to see if I have one that'll work for the bottom. I also think I'll try a tall skinny tank 16" square footprint & 3'High. This I think I would do on a large piece of tile. The thing is I mostly keep larger cichlids so I wouldn't really have a use for a tank like that and I'm not sure it would appeal to anyone on craigslist, Thoughts???
I posed the idea of making the tall narrow tank and inserting it in the center of this current tank and doing a cool tank within a tank/overflow deal, but the girlfriend shot it down and I figured its best not to push my luck right now.
Thanks for reading and yes the stand will be finished off nicely once i'm certain there are no leaks to worry about.
