Look for a well built with plywood wall cabinet or base cabinet. Add a
top and you have a great tank stand. I picked up a nice prefinished
kitchen cabinet which had one scratch on the side which was no major,
and added a top cut from a corian counter top I picked up cheap but
like new at Goodwill ($5), and it made a superb tank stand with lots
of storage space under it for a fuge or what have you. Just make sure
its plywood and not particle board for best results. We have a scratch
and dent and surplus building material place here and I paid $30 for
the cabinet I got. 1/2" 7 ply birch plywood finished in Oak, with
solid oak front consisting of 2 doors and 3 drawers. Holds our one 29
gal and a 30 gal cube perfectly. Much better than those particle board
or MDF stands that is sold.

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:18:08 -0500, Add Homonym
wrote:

Wayne Sallee wrote:
Wow a 2 year old girl tipping over a 55 gal tank !
Did the iron stand collapse? Was it on soft flooring?
That's a lot of weight for a light weight 2 year old to tip over.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Add Homonym wrote on 1/2/2007 1:50 PM:

I once knew someone who had an all glass 55gal on one of those metal
stands tip over on top of his 2 year old daughter.

Not a good thing. I think it took out a few ribs, collapsed one of her
lungs, gave her a nasty concussion...

The All Glass Aqauarium iron stands IME are not all that stable. Way to
top heavey. Doesn't take much force at all to topple them. And I think
the guy had it on carpet.

MY 4 year old has been trained NOT to touch ours (20gal long)- if you go
up to it and push it so that it wobbles (it's on half inch plywood, but
it STILL will wobble if you push it), she runs out of the room as fast
as she can. She UNDERSTANDS that it can tip over, and what could happen.

One of the things on my todo list is to build a nice custom cabinet one
of these days... preferable something I can suspend a few 70w MH
pendants from, and maybe a couple of t5 actinics... hell, put a sump
under it while i'm at it, and a REAL skimmer to replace my seaclone...

but then a little voice in the back of my head points out that starting
fresh with a REAL sized tank (like a 125 gal) and a new stand would be
more fun and not that much more work, and the 20 gal nano can always
become the 'fuge for the new tank...

Then another little voice starts talking about household budgets,
annoyed wives, divorce attorneys...



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