Stand for the BIG ONE

[cpreefguy]

Nice, I bet that stand is as light as a feather!

[BIGBIRD123]

Actually a few feathers with a couple of stacks of brick attached...LMAO!

S

[ErikH]

1/8 of the endcaps =

[BIGBIRD123]

yea, I'm going to have 19 T5s over the 280g.

S

[cpreefguy]

yea, I'm going to have 19 T5s over the 280g.

S

Big deal, Ill have 10 over my 60g

[BIGBIRD123]

The tank is a Peninsula 280g with end dual-2" calfo. I will have a Reeflo Dart pumping into an Ocean Motions 4-way thru holes drilled10" off each corner of the bottom. The return pump, a Sequence Marlin is a pressure pump that will be plumbed into a manifold. The manifold will service my returns, skimmer and 3 media reactors. I will plumb my chiller into the closed loop. I will have a tank room in the garage with a 150g trough sump. I have other things in the works and will update soon.

It has been expressed by some people the sturdiness of the stand, so
for those concerned about the stand...it will hold 12k lbs. Each one of those double struts will hold 3k lbs. and with the added double legs...who knows...

I designed it to hold 10k ilbs worth $12k...what ya think?

Steve

[tropicana]

I would have just used 2" or 4" square steel tubing and cap the open ends or corner cut them. I would have doubled the corners as well like you did just in case and coated them. But I would have gotten the galvenized square tubing. Im sure yours will hold though.

[mikedelgado]

I would use drain water to gravity feed the skimmer. I use a barracuda return pump tied to a manifold. when I had it feeding the skimmer for whatever reason the pressure wasnt consistant enough which made it difficult to keep the skimmer dialed in . since switching to drain water to feed the skimmer it stays dialed in perfectly.

[LoneStar]

Ok Steve, now you need to run some conduit and set up a gfci electrical panel inside that stand before you paint it! Put in a flourescent light fixture underneath it as well. It worked great on that stand I was building!