Show me your cool tank stand!

[Ol' Salty]

This is my own personal stand built by myself, octo is hand cut, stained glass behind using tank lights, bottom lit by fuge light.
I built a 2x frame and the cabinet is freestanding, I canslide the whole thing out to get to gear if needed, w/out any obstruction.
Wood is African mahogany.

I love your stand. Way nice job!

 

[davocean]

Yeah that Octo is pretty ******. Is that orange backlit or is it just a reflection?

Thank you, colored glass backlit by my main lights

 

[Flippers4pups]

Here's my current build:

 

[Flippers4pups]

When I started the canopy:

 

[Flippers4pups]

And one more:

 

[Reefmon]

Clean set up! How are the marine pure spheres working for you?

 

[jason2459]

This is my own personal stand built by myself, octo is hand cut, stained glass behind using tank lights, bottom lit by fuge light.
I built a 2x frame and the cabinet is freestanding, I canslide the whole thing out to get to gear if needed, w/out any obstruction.
Wood is African mahogany.

Amazing. I love it.

 

[Reeflogic]

Clean set up! How are the marine pure spheres working for you?

Thank you! this was a "downsize" project as I'm preparing to move out of state, so I had the marine pure in my 100g for the last 2 years. Purchased them as I had a minimal scape at that time. Now I use them to seed new set ups, etc. But I think they do their job

 

[cyrus]

Triple stacked. 60 cube made for space with 1" square tubing ordered online. Frag tank and trigger sump below. The panels are MDF with a plastic layer on top. I know people are holding up their fingers in the shape of a cross and hissing at me right now but the MDF board is sealed on all the edges that are cut with epoxy paint. The plastic coating is an awesome durable replacement for paint. Below is the link to it at Lowes.
http://m.lowes.com/pd/Duramine-MDF-Actual-0-5-in-x-49-in/3611864
The front panel was going to be magnetic but it fits so snug I skipped that part. I am currently dealing with ventilation and plan to put large 200MM computer fans in the back. She's tall but so am I. I like building my stands at 48".

 

[Steadyreef42]

Triple stacked. 60 cube made for space with 1" square tubing ordered online. Frag tank and trigger sump below. The panels are MDF with a plastic layer on top. I know people are holding up their fingers in the shape of a cross and hissing at me right now but the MDF board is sealed on all the edges that are cut with epoxy paint. The plastic coating is an awesome durable replacement for paint. Below is the link to it at Lowes.
http://m.lowes.com/pd/Duramine-MDF-Actual-0-5-in-x-49-in/3611864
The front panel was going to be magnetic but it fits so snug I skipped that part. I am currently dealing with ventilation and plan to put large 200MM computer fans in the back. She's tall but so am I. I like building my stands at 48".

Dude that is awesome. I just built mine at 45 and love all the space underneath. I made a shelf underneath mine under the tank above the sump but now. Wish I would have went a frag tank in the middle!! Kudos on the MDF . Sometimes you gotta go outside the box good job

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Nothing too special. Just a removed door to create display fuge.

 

[fasterfred]

Heres an update on my tank and stand 55 gal. Tank with a Beananimal overflow, 6 t5 lights, home made acrylic sump. All dc pumps and wave makers, apex classic controller.

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

Mine so far. I'm planning on skinning it later

 

[DalPal25]

not sure if this qualifies as "cool" compared to all the others but I love it, it was a gift from my girlfriend for my birthday and it gets the job done

 

[benapilot]

Finished mine and its in the house!!

75 gallon, custom built stand. The front and side panels can come completely off.

 

[Hysa]

Here is mine.

 

[s2nhle]

wow, that looks very sleek.

 

[Richard Schmidt]

Here is mine:

It all starts with an idea:

Then the fun begins:

Stand has a granite top.

Finished product:

For what it is worth this is how it all started

Stand frame is 1" thin wall tubing.
Skin of stand is distressed oak hardwood flooring material.
Any wood exposed to inside of stand is covered with PVC.
Bottom of frame has a 3" tall PVC flood pan with flush mount drain point that discharges into my crawl space.
All three sides are removable for full access to inside of stand.
I'm using a Cerebra controller (please let's not fight about that), but I think the way I installed it is good looking.
Hope you enjoy my journey.

Rick

 

[Abusfullofnuns]

Nice!!! Sweet touch with the granite.

 

[benapilot]

Here are a couple more of mine...

Front and side panels removed (magnetically held in place):