90 gallon stand

[Jamesrup0411]

So I’m about to start process of building a stand for my 90. My issue is that I have a heat register on the floor of where I want to place the tank. What ideas do you have in order for me to put the tank there and still able to access the heat register. If I build a stand and place it on legs Am I asking for a disaster??

 

[Jekyl]

Add a small shelf over the vent to send the heat through a vented area you make in the stand and keep heat from actually getting inside maybe. Kind of box it in like an extension of the register.

 

[Jekyl]

I built my own stand. The bottom framing is all 2x4s. Create a vent out the back or side whichever and plywood around it.

 

[Jamesrup0411]

Add a small shelf over the vent to send the heat through a vented area you make in the stand and keep heat from actually getting inside maybe. Kind of box it in like an extension of the register.

Good idea. That’s what I will do

 

[Jekyl]

Here is what you will have to work with. This is a diy 90 gallon stand

 

[Jamesrup0411]

What I was thinking, if we are looking at it from the top and I frame out in 2x4s and I just don’t run a continuous board on the front bottom to let the heat/air come out under the front of my stand

 

[Jekyl]

I wouldn't cut any of the outside perimeter like that. However you could just buy a piece of venting and run it right out the back with a new register.

 

[Jamesrup0411]

True

 

[Jekyl]

I failed art btw

 

[Jekyl]

Squiggly areas will all be covered with plywood

 

[Jekyl]

That would be looking top down at your stand base

 

[Jedi1199]

Unless you decide to shut that register off completely, you are going to have an opening to vent that heat regardless of weather it is front or back. How do you want that heat to travel? Under the tank and into the room, or behind the tank and up the wall? Just like your tank needs flow for all the inhabitants to be happy, so does your room. Air flow, water flow.. same thing physically.

Structurally, a small opening the size of the heater register, 2 x 6? 3 x 12? Won't impact your stand integrity as long as you reinforce the area where the opening will be. If you decide to run it out the front, you can place a diffuser of the front of the stand to make it look better than an open hole. There are unfinished hardwood diffusers available that can be painted or stained to match your stand so they will look more integrated.