Wood vs Iron stand?

by **dizzcat** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:05 am

Its a glass tank. I had planned on taking everything out but the sand. Drain it all the way too. No way I would try to pick that sucker up without getting the water out first!

by **a1k8t31524** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:05 am

ok just making sure.

by **fihsboy** » Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:48 am

I picked up a 15 full of water........before I knew ANYTHING about saltwater or even fresh. BIG mistake. The joints started to bow and it busted in my arms. Thank GOD I had long sleeves and jeans on. Destroyed my jeans and my shirt.....better than my skin. Drain the beast all the way. The less stress on your tank the better.

by **ChristinaBug2890** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:34 am

I'm stuck with an iron stand for now too. Its hideous but it will have to do for the time beeing. I understand.

by **fihsboy** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:32 pm

And I really like the idea of putting fabric around the stand. That will work nicely. LFS has everything on cinder blocks.....with black fabric around the tanks bottom and blocks......looks really nice.

by **jweb** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:27 am

Yea get some black fabric and then get those velcro patches and stick them to the fabric and the stand so you can take the fabric completely off whenever you want to.

by **dizzcat** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:14 am

OMG Fishboy! I bet that sucked!!

I might get me a couple yards of fabric that looks like wood. Black in my house is a bad idea because it would get covered in cat hair within a day and you would really see it!

by **CedricAndCandy7566** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:17 am

Hi dizzcat...so what's the verdict, did you buy the iron stand? Another option for making it look like a wooden stand is to buy some cheap plaster board or mdf panels and you can cover the panels with wood-look laminate. We did that for our 4ft SA cichlid stand and covered panels with laminate that looks like jarrah wood. Its come out looking great. Let me know if you want to see a pic of what I mean...

by **fihsboy** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:55 pm

I want to see a picture! Ive seen tanks that used bamboo flooring. That was pretty cool.

by **CedricAndCandy7566** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:49 am

Ok here goes...I haven't posted pics for a while so hopefully this works. You probably need to hit reply to view them. Our stand originally was a wooden stand but a frame only and we added the wood panels to make it enclosed. You could easily enough do exactly the same concept for an iron stand.

Wood vs Iron stand?

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Wood vs Iron stand?

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