Sad Saturday. No more tank.

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daverf

Tang
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#21
Wow, I'm sure sorry for the loss. I would walk away from the hobby without looking back! You've got cajones to stick around, I've got 4 kiddos too and know how attached they become to our hobbies. Good luck with the reboot.

You may want to have pidge or craigar look at the way stand structure/support is designed. Another opinion from guys who do DIY builds may not hurt. I believe a glass aquarium needs equal contact/support along all outside seams (versus acrylic requiring along the entire bottom panel), and it looked like in some of the pictures on the other thread that just the corners are supported. It seems that would concentrate >massive< stress on the long middle seams, especially on a tall high gallon tank. I'm not an engineer so maybe you should ignore me.
 
rghering

rghering

Cleaner Shrimp
#22
#22
The new stand once designed will be 2x2 box steel with 3x3 box steel legs. No more wood. The area it will be put on in my house (i.e wall tank) will be leveled with self leveling concrete, with an understructure in the crawl space built with hold 15,000 lbs.. ( I've got a engineer buddy thats gona help me on this ) just to insure that the tank NEVER moves.. The wall will be redesigned completely. I'll probably fix this tank and put it in my office at home. (it has a concrete floor). I'm still going to be purchasing a new tank for the wall in January. Wife's decided I can get whatever we can afford.. I'm currently looking at a 280 gallon long acrylic $1680.00 shipped.
 
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daverf

Tang
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#23
#23
280G, incredible, can't wait to see that one....

For the stand, I don't think wood is usually a problem. ADHI built my aquarium and the owner (Tom) said they use plywood/wood even for 600 gallon builds and those stands/tanks last a lifetime. But, tank seam support/contact can be a huge problem, but again I'm not an engineer and you've got one helping so that's good. You probably need to use very thick plywood to run the length of the bottom 280G acrylic panel (with equal supports underneath and throughout), otherwise one could build an acrylic tank stand that is nuclear blast proof and still have the bottom panel burst.
 
jgonzz

jgonzz

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#24
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rghering;203691 said:
The new stand once designed will be 2x2 box steel with 3x3 box steel legs. No more wood. The area it will be put on in my house (i.e wall tank) will be leveled with self leveling concrete, with an understructure in the crawl space built with hold 15,000 lbs.. ( I've got a engineer buddy thats gona help me on this ) just to insure that the tank NEVER moves.. The wall will be redesigned completely. I'll probably fix this tank and put it in my office at home. (it has a concrete floor). I'm still going to be purchasing a new tank for the wall in January. Wife's decided I can get whatever we can afford.. I'm currently looking at a 280 gallon long acrylic $1680.00 shipped.
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I can get you a 300 deep dimension with star fire for that price, delivered to Greeley

maybe a little less
 
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daverf

Tang
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#25
#25
actually here's what you should do on the stand - email crew@wetwebmedia.com with a write up of what you plan to do. Bob Fenner has a guy with structural engineering background look at blueprints for people and will tell you whether you are over engineering something or your tank will fail because of the stand you are planning.
 
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