I just purchased two used tanks and want to incorporate the 55 gallon that is already in the location I'm planning to build this stand.
The two new/used tanks are a 29 gallon and a 46 gallon bow front. I did some crawling around in the crawl space below the room this will be located. There seems to be plenty of support (an I beam going one direction and a 3-thick 2X10 girter that runs the length of the house directly below the load bearing wall this stand will be up against... the girter is supported by concrete block supports... the house is 50 years old and has 2X8 floor joists. I hope it can support the weight of all this water - I'm estimating 1500 pounds??
The stand will be built out of 4X4's and the two top tanks will sit on 2X6 supports... I will use 2X4's for some support and bracing... face it with 1X's and paint it all a nice chocolate brown. I will build a portion of the stand to fit the "bow" front using thin plywood bent around the curve I'll trace and cut out of a 2X10 or 2X12 layed on its side... I think this will work.
The sketches are a bit blury and still need some modifying... most of the needed wood will be found tucked away in my garage - I never get rid of anything.
** sorry for the bluriness of the attached diagrams, I had a friend scan my pencil drawn plans and that is the best he came up with...
Anyone ever made a stand holding three tanks like this? I figured it'd weigh no more than a 150 gallon tank...
I'm hoping to put cichlids in these new tanks... something I have no experience with - it'll take a while before I get this project done, so I have plenty of time to read up on how to care for them...
I built a great stand in the kitchen that holds a 55 gallon, I'll follow some of the same design ideas I used on that stand...
Think this'll work???
The two new/used tanks are a 29 gallon and a 46 gallon bow front. I did some crawling around in the crawl space below the room this will be located. There seems to be plenty of support (an I beam going one direction and a 3-thick 2X10 girter that runs the length of the house directly below the load bearing wall this stand will be up against... the girter is supported by concrete block supports... the house is 50 years old and has 2X8 floor joists. I hope it can support the weight of all this water - I'm estimating 1500 pounds??
The stand will be built out of 4X4's and the two top tanks will sit on 2X6 supports... I will use 2X4's for some support and bracing... face it with 1X's and paint it all a nice chocolate brown. I will build a portion of the stand to fit the "bow" front using thin plywood bent around the curve I'll trace and cut out of a 2X10 or 2X12 layed on its side... I think this will work.
The sketches are a bit blury and still need some modifying... most of the needed wood will be found tucked away in my garage - I never get rid of anything.
** sorry for the bluriness of the attached diagrams, I had a friend scan my pencil drawn plans and that is the best he came up with...
Anyone ever made a stand holding three tanks like this? I figured it'd weigh no more than a 150 gallon tank...
I'm hoping to put cichlids in these new tanks... something I have no experience with - it'll take a while before I get this project done, so I have plenty of time to read up on how to care for them...
I built a great stand in the kitchen that holds a 55 gallon, I'll follow some of the same design ideas I used on that stand...
Think this'll work???