Hi Hennie
Seeing as you've had lots of experience with stands and tanks and breaking glass - I'd love to pick your brain for a moment.
I'm planning a new reef - I've been collecting everything I need to start over the last couple of months and all I need to do now is the stand - the second hand tank I bought has a stand that is too low and I have to weld a new one.
Heres a bit more about the system Im planning - tank dims are 2m x 50 wide x 70 high - sump is 1.5 x 40 x 40. Everything else is standard - the space where I want the tank is the challenge.
Here is a pic of the location in my hallway.
The space is 2m(well 197cm - will have to grind 3cm off the wall) x 70 deep.
So originally I planned something like this
This is what I want it to look like in the end.
This is the stand that I have in mind now
Its built out of 50mm squaretubing(3mm thick on main beams and 2mm thick on supports. The main goal here is working room under the tank - I hate not having room - becuase the tank is in the hallway it will be 1meter high. Becuase the hole in the wall is 70cm deep and the tank only 50 I want the sump to not be right under the tank becuase I would be wasting the space behind the sump - SO - I want the sump against the back wall - hence no supports in the middle back and front - only the one in the middle.
Will this stand hold - is it overkill? Obviously the less metal etc etc the better so if its to much where whould you scale down or would you do the whole thing differently - One guy here in Pretoria told me that simply a squaretubing plain boxframe would work - I think the 1 ton tank would be too heavy - am i right
Thanks for the help Hennie!
Seeing as you've had lots of experience with stands and tanks and breaking glass - I'd love to pick your brain for a moment.
I'm planning a new reef - I've been collecting everything I need to start over the last couple of months and all I need to do now is the stand - the second hand tank I bought has a stand that is too low and I have to weld a new one.
Heres a bit more about the system Im planning - tank dims are 2m x 50 wide x 70 high - sump is 1.5 x 40 x 40. Everything else is standard - the space where I want the tank is the challenge.
Here is a pic of the location in my hallway.
The space is 2m(well 197cm - will have to grind 3cm off the wall) x 70 deep.
So originally I planned something like this
This is what I want it to look like in the end.
This is the stand that I have in mind now
Its built out of 50mm squaretubing(3mm thick on main beams and 2mm thick on supports. The main goal here is working room under the tank - I hate not having room - becuase the tank is in the hallway it will be 1meter high. Becuase the hole in the wall is 70cm deep and the tank only 50 I want the sump to not be right under the tank becuase I would be wasting the space behind the sump - SO - I want the sump against the back wall - hence no supports in the middle back and front - only the one in the middle.
Will this stand hold - is it overkill? Obviously the less metal etc etc the better so if its to much where whould you scale down or would you do the whole thing differently - One guy here in Pretoria told me that simply a squaretubing plain boxframe would work - I think the 1 ton tank would be too heavy - am i right
Thanks for the help Hennie!