Making of 29 gallon aquarium stand

[jmfolcik]

Hello, I'm posting the results of my aquarium stand build using all 2x4's, trim, and 1/4 inch plywood. stain and varnish finished it off. It probably took me 10 hours to finish but I split it up among evenings and a weekend.

I used this page for the "design" of the 2x4 layout inside the stand. The doors were made by hand with a piece of plywood, trim, and a miter box to cut the trim 45 degrees. The screws on this website were wrong for 2x4's, go another half inch length from what it had.
http://www.aquariumlife.net/projects/diy-aquarium-stand/56.asp

 

[Rbishop]

Great job!!!

 

[thesixis]

nice job
What is in the tank?

 

[myswtsins]

Good job! Looks like the kitty is on guard duty.

My parents have that picture too. lol

 

[jmfolcik]

what is in the tank:

In the tank are 3 damsels (blue, four stripe and a domino), a live rock, a decorative rock I hope the live rock life moves over to (the little live rock was 20 bucks)
About 4 or 5 days into it now with fish. One yellowtail blue damsel died in the first 24 hours, it never started off right I think he was sick to start with, the rest are super lively.

I have a new picture along with a closeup of the live rock, where there is something growing in the middle looks like a couple plant stalks with little grapes growing off it. I looked up information on bubble algae and it doesn't look like that is it as this has a stem they grow off.

 

[rich311k]

Nice tank and great job on the stand.

 

[krome]

Hello, I'm posting the results of my aquarium stand build using all 2x4's, trim, and 1/4 inch plywood. stain and varnish finished it off. It probably took me 10 hours to finish but I split it up among evenings and a weekend.

I used this page for the "design" of the 2x4 layout inside the stand. The doors were made by hand with a piece of plywood, trim, and a miter box to cut the trim 45 degrees. The screws on this website were wrong for 2x4's, go another half inch length from what it had.
http://www.aquariumlife.net/projects/diy-aquarium-stand/56.asp

excellent stand really well made

 

[jm1212]

very nice tank and stand!