Steelerfans 120g build from scratch (Pic intense)

[allabout]

Thank stand looks very solid! Are there plans online somewhere or did you come up with them yourself? I really like that there's no center brace in the front!

 

[allabout]

Also you said you didn't have a lot of tools, would you consider yourself very mechanically inclined though? Or do you think it's easier to build than it looks?

 

[Steelerfan747]

Thank stand looks very solid! Are there plans online somewhere or did you come up with them yourself? I really like that there's no center brace in the front!

I borrowed the design from another reefer and just made tiny changes but it was by no means my own idea. I also loved the fact that it came with no center brace and found that as long as you build it right you never have to have one.

 

[Steelerfan747]

Also you said you didn't have a lot of tools, would you consider yourself very mechanically inclined though? Or do you think it's easier to build than it looks?

I have always been a bit of a tinkerer and very detailed. I just figured out what needed to be done based upon different pics I saw.

 

[Loki]

That looks awesome! I'm following along!

 

[wysiwyg]

very nice looking stand definately will be following along

 

[Steelerfan747]

Further steps into the actual look of the stand

The tank Is made out of maple with wood trim purchased from both HD & Lowes

Close up of the trim.....

 

[BarbH]

Very nice, I like the detail of the molding on the stand.

 

[BarbH]

Very nice, I like the detail of the molding on the stand.

 

[Steelerfan747]

Right side......

Left side.....

Made the insert for the stand out of the same maple wood

 

[Steelerfan747]

Very nice, I like the detail of the molding on the stand.

Thank you, I feel it definitely gives it a finished look

 

[Steelerfan747]

Very nice, I like the detail of the molding on the stand.

Thank you, I feel it definitely gives it a finished look (lol, just had to answer to both your posts)

 

[Steelerfan747]

Here is a front view of the stand with the insert installed

and here is a pic with the tank on top of the stand

Just kidding this is actually a tank I picked up in order to set up as a sump/ refugium

 

[BarbH]

Thank you, I feel it definitely gives it a finished look (lol, just had to answer to both your posts)

Seems like this evening I have been having some issues with it double posting at times, lol only have been hitting the reply button once. Who knows what is going on?

 

[Steelerfan747]

This is one of the stains I decided to use

and here are some pics of the sump in its new home

 

[Steelerfan747]

Seems like this evening I have been having some issues with it double posting at times, lol only have been hitting the reply button once. Who knows what is going on?

That seems to happen every once in a while. Who knows, lol

 

[Steelerfan747]

I have never been fortunate enough to have a separate fish room so I have always been forced to make everything fit inside the stand. I was glad that I wen't with a 120g as it is 24" deep but once everything was said and done, this is all the space I had left over.

 

[Steelerfan747]

Time for the canopy. I think many tanks look great without them but some need them, especially when building a stand like this one

 

[Steelerfan747]

I built the canopy frame out of pine to avoid excess weight sitting on the tank but the face is maple like the stand

 

[Steelerfan747]

Here are a couple of pics of the tank sitting on it's new home