Linea made a Stand with a Slide Out Sump!

[Reef Builders]

Of all the components of reef aquarium systems the stand is the most easily overlooked and aside from using new materials like steel or aluminum, there’s rarely much innovation getting applied to aquarium stands. Thankfully this stagnation is starting to wane as we spied a very unique stand by Linea Unica from InterZoo which not…
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[A_Blind_Reefer]

All you young whippersnappers love getting on the floor to do anything! Ha. I would take it another step further even. Something that slides out AND up. They have (obviously no where near the same weight category) a lift for those kitchen stand mixers that hides the mixer in a kitchen cabinet. When you need it, it pulls out and up to counter height, somewhat effortlessly. It would need to be much more robust, like a hydraulic motorcycle lift, or with actuators of some sort. But it would be pretty trick. Hashtag save the knees, hashtag save your back, hashtag save the top of your head!

edit.. and it’s not the age, it’s the mileage

 

[jmatt]

All you young whippersnappers love getting on the floor to do anything!

I feel ya. I've had one knee replacement and the other is probably only a year or two away. I physically cannot kneel on my fake left knee.... it's quite painful.

As I am still in the design stage of my system, I am wondering how I might locate the sump on a workbench a few feet away, perhaps behind a curtain for esthetics.

Anyway -- Jake, thanks for the link!

 

[blaxsun]

Yeah, just no. I already have enough issues with cable management without having to plan in another +2 feet of cable, probe, etc. length just so I can slide everything out.