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trido

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bleedingthought":2o25hlhw said:
No plywood there would make me nervous because of the possibility of the tank being knocked over and falling into the stand. 8O :P
I can assure you that if the tank were to move at all causing it to fall into the stand the tank would be the least of your worries. In that case you had better wory about your own safety because the whole house would most likely moving. I had a stand like that under my 70 for five years and then modified it to fit my 90 for another ten. There truely are no worries (within reason) in a stand built like this.
 

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The trim is oak.

No plans for a top (for reasons Duane has already covered). I'm planning on a thin foam layer on the top rail for the tank to sit on.

Thanks for the encouraging comments guys. :)
 

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I enlisted one of my brothers to help me drag the stand and tank upstairs tonight. Tough job for two guys! :lol:

Here's a pic of the tank sitting on the stand. I'll be plumbing this weekend...
 

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ChrisRD":2wzvkusx said:
I enlisted one of my brothers to help me drag the stand and tank upstairs tonight. Tough job for two guys! :lol:

Here's a pic of the tank sitting on the stand. I'll be plumbing this weekend...

LOL.. My brother whined about helping me with 90s and 120s in the past. I'd bet you guys were whooped. Looking like it is coming along nicely. How are you going to build your doors?

Are you going to use a CL? How many OTB returns are you using?
 

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Thanks for the kind words fellas. :)

For doors I'm just planning to do some flat panel cabinet doors. Two on each side for a total of four.

For circulation I have some Tunzes. I may get a few more or add some VorTechs. No CL planned. Probably just one OTB return.

Today we had a slight detour in the project. I decided I wanted to put the tank on a different wall in the dining room. It works a LOT better there. Unfortunately this put the tank parallel with the floor joists so I had to reinforce the floor.

Triple 2X12s carriage bolted together on a couple of screw jacks did the trick (ignore the junk pile in the background :wink: )...
 

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Lucky for you that the tank is above the garage. It may be difficult to park a SUV in there now. :lol:
 

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chris.... you suck! :P

i wish i could just whip out the ol' drill press to cut some holes in any tank i could find..... phewey on you! :lol:

great job, are you gonna use hang on overflows?
 

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Thanks so much for sharing you build. I too have plans for a 180 (probably like everyone else that has something smaller) and am very inspired by your work. I'm especially looking forward to your posts concerning the plumbing.

Keep up the good work.
 

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So is there a special bit for drilling glass? I've got access to a drill press like yours and now the gears are turning (in my head) about the possibilities.
 

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Duane, no problems fitting the SUV - column locations were chosen for that reason and headroom with the beam is fine. :wink:

Ben, thanks for the compliment (I think... :wink: ). Here's what I have planned for the overflow box:
http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=101127

TY, thanks for the kind words - plumbing pics will be coming soon. I think, however, I may have one little additional detour first. I'm thinking it would be wise to run a dedicated electrical circuit for the tank (just in case the tank ends-up as a reef in the future... :wink: :wink: ). I may also run some 1/4" poly tubing inside the same wall so I can have all the topoff stuff in the basement. The bits I use for glass drilling are diamond tipped coring bits - available very inexpensively on eBay (and not so inexpensively from glass places).
 

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Completed the dedicated GFI circuit last night (4 gang outlet on the right). Finished running the 1/4" poly and some 1/2" PVC down to the basement so I can automate water changes and topoff from down there. No buckets. :)

I broke the face plate for the box the plumbing is in while drilling the openings so I'll need to get another blank tomorrow and redo that.

The outlet on the left won't normally be used but is on a generator circuit so I can switch any critical equipment over to that in the event of a power outage.
 

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...drilled new face plate and started plumbing the tank this weekend.
 

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There are just plugs in there right now, but I wanted to leave myself a convenient place to stick small valves to feed single pass chambers like maybe carbon, phos, purigen and/or a Ca reactor. Trying to keep my options open... :wink:
 

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