Hey fish tank people,
I got pretty much no equipment or skill. I do have a drill as my sole power tool. And I'm good with PVC, have built a PVC overflow, and redone my FX5 input and output with pvc also. I've got an 8x3x2 tank from tenecor that should be delivered at some point soon, been waiting 3 months for that now.. and I need to make a stand for it.
Because of owning no power tools and not having a lot of skill I would like to go with what i'm familiar with which is cinder block stands. I use them with great success for my 20 and 50 gallon tank and they seem level. This is probably because my floor is level, it's a cement slab.
I was thinking 3 rows of cinder blocks with 2x8s layed across the top of them and then plywood on top of that and then a sheet of foam insulation from lowes on top of that, then make sure it is level and put the whole 350g tank on the top. Which foam do you use under your acrylic tank, really cushy white foam that you can make dents in by pushing on it, that seem to be springy? Or the firm pink/blue stuff that feels like that stuff they use for fake floral arrangements that one would poke wires into?
A problem is with a cinder block stand there are cinder block posts everywhere which leaves not much room for a sump tank. A possible solution to this is having the sump tank go front to back underneath the display, but with a 48 inch sump tank the space in the room will really be suffering. I'll probably need the whole contraption to come out 50 inches from the wall anyway though, since the tank is 36 inches wide.
Another problem is I have only two 50 gallon tanks as my largest tanks right now. Which will be unused and possibility for using one of them as a sump. But by my understanding, every inch of water in the 350 is 15 gallons (15*24 inches = 360). Since I want the output of my overflow to be just 1 inch below the water surface that is about 15-20 gallons that will enter the sump tank by back siphoning when the power fails. I can't really afford to buy another larger aquarium to use as a sump tank, but at the same time this gives me a really low operating level of the sump.
Any suggestions what to do?
I got pretty much no equipment or skill. I do have a drill as my sole power tool. And I'm good with PVC, have built a PVC overflow, and redone my FX5 input and output with pvc also. I've got an 8x3x2 tank from tenecor that should be delivered at some point soon, been waiting 3 months for that now.. and I need to make a stand for it.
Because of owning no power tools and not having a lot of skill I would like to go with what i'm familiar with which is cinder block stands. I use them with great success for my 20 and 50 gallon tank and they seem level. This is probably because my floor is level, it's a cement slab.
I was thinking 3 rows of cinder blocks with 2x8s layed across the top of them and then plywood on top of that and then a sheet of foam insulation from lowes on top of that, then make sure it is level and put the whole 350g tank on the top. Which foam do you use under your acrylic tank, really cushy white foam that you can make dents in by pushing on it, that seem to be springy? Or the firm pink/blue stuff that feels like that stuff they use for fake floral arrangements that one would poke wires into?
A problem is with a cinder block stand there are cinder block posts everywhere which leaves not much room for a sump tank. A possible solution to this is having the sump tank go front to back underneath the display, but with a 48 inch sump tank the space in the room will really be suffering. I'll probably need the whole contraption to come out 50 inches from the wall anyway though, since the tank is 36 inches wide.
Another problem is I have only two 50 gallon tanks as my largest tanks right now. Which will be unused and possibility for using one of them as a sump. But by my understanding, every inch of water in the 350 is 15 gallons (15*24 inches = 360). Since I want the output of my overflow to be just 1 inch below the water surface that is about 15-20 gallons that will enter the sump tank by back siphoning when the power fails. I can't really afford to buy another larger aquarium to use as a sump tank, but at the same time this gives me a really low operating level of the sump.
Any suggestions what to do?
maybe i should just not even think about using the 50g as a sump and wait until a time that an extraordinary deal pops up on cl on a larger tank. I have two FX5 which should amount to about 4x turnover all things considered.