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- Marine Park
Hey guys. For those that don't know me I took a break about a decade ago from the hobby. We had just had our first child, were starting a new business and this hobby became more work then play for me. I stopped enjoying it and for the first time in 20 or so years, didn't have a tank.
It didn't last that long and I found myself bouncing from planted tanks to africans and back again. I did a few dirted tanks (Walstad method) which were cool and super low maintenance. I met Discus Hans by chance at an event and kept Discus for awhile. Ultimately though I just find freshwater boring. To each there own, for me I love salt.
I decided to come back keeping my non-reef ready 90 gallon. I had it on an Aquatic Fundamentals stand which was rated to 900 pounds max. The 90 with sand, Live Rock and so on would be just over the 900 by my calculations.
We now have three kids and the tank is in their main play area. Needless to say the AF stand had to go. I originally was going to go cheap and easy with a concrete block stand. I made a platform to support the top as concrete blocks are only 16" wide:
It didn't last that long and I found myself bouncing from planted tanks to africans and back again. I did a few dirted tanks (Walstad method) which were cool and super low maintenance. I met Discus Hans by chance at an event and kept Discus for awhile. Ultimately though I just find freshwater boring. To each there own, for me I love salt.
I decided to come back keeping my non-reef ready 90 gallon. I had it on an Aquatic Fundamentals stand which was rated to 900 pounds max. The 90 with sand, Live Rock and so on would be just over the 900 by my calculations.
We now have three kids and the tank is in their main play area. Needless to say the AF stand had to go. I originally was going to go cheap and easy with a concrete block stand. I made a platform to support the top as concrete blocks are only 16" wide: