madweazl

Some info on them here. Looks like someone beat me to it

Hmm, I've never seen that before.

Those tanks have great dimensions and you did excellent work with it. Wish I would have seen it setup before I went with the stand I got (ERC recommended it but I didnt listen).

It fits through the front doors as long as the stand is a few inches off the wall.

I plan on sealing it and the lower compartment.

Not planning on installing any bracing. Based on what I've read so far, 3/4" seems to be plenty strong enough.

Yea, always has to be the more expensive option

I'm planning on going with an acrylic tank and need to top an open stand to support it. How thick should the plywood be and should I use a specific type? The area to be covered is 48 13/16" x 18 7/8". It be up to 1 1/2" thick.

I gave up on trying to figure out what may be "best" a long time ago and started using what I liked visually instead. I went with black sand while I was in San Diego and loved how everything really popped next to it.

I have three, 7g containers that I keep full but usually end up using one of them for drinking water. I'm moving up to a 75g (from 50g) and will have to figure something else out.

Uh oh, opened the second box from Dr F&S and it had two bags of sand in it. I figured the big box had two bags and the small was just a single bag. Gotta call them up tomorrow and have them charge me for another bag of sand. As for the finish, she brought up a valid point (darn her!). We really dont have anywhere to sand it down to refinish since we're in an apartment and the weather sucks. Cant wait to buy a house!

Very pleased with how well the stand and canopy cleaned up. Sump fits well and will give me just enough room for maintenance without being a total pain the butt. It fits through the front doors with the stand about 4" off the wall (will be at least that far with the external overflow I'm planning on). The tank on the other hand was much worse than I had initially thought. Bottom must of broke at some point and whoever tried to replace it was a total hack. Unfortunate but it's good motivation to have a custom tank made. Hopefully I can get the ball rolling on that this week.

Beautiful!

Ran up to PetCo and measured the TopFin brand at 1 3/4".

I'd appreciate trim measurements from other manufacturers to try and narrow this down further.

2° isnt going to cause any problems. Fluctuations on the reef are considerably larger (though the inhabitants arent stuffed in a closed system).

It would seem

Thank you, very helpful. Fascia on this stand will only accept tank trim that is 1.5" tall so this eliminates one brand.

Odd request but if you have a 75g DB aquarium, would you mind measuring the lower trim and posting the results? I need the height along with the over all length. The stand I just picked up can fit a tank roughly 48 3/8" long IF the trim the is about 1 5/8" in height (has a groove the trim slides into).

Drove up to Maryland and picked up a 75g glass tank, stand, and canopy (along with a bunch of misc crap I didnt want that was in the tank like some Penguins, heater, decorations, etc). Tank would need new trim if I kept it but the stand and canopy were well worth what I paid. They're a light oak and everything we have is a dark cherry so I have some work to do. Wife doesnt want me to refinish it but I'm not a light finish kind of guy. The stand is a bit odd because the trim is recessed for the aquariums lower trim to slide into. Cool in theory but I have a feeling it is probably designed around one brand/type of trim. I'll get the exact measurements in the morning but I'll probably end up removing and replacing it with something that will work with any common 75g. It is also open on top so it wouldnt support an acrylic tank so I'm planning on installing a piece of plywood to accommodate that (love acrylic tanks but glass is so easy with sand). If nothing else, the tank will be good practice for drilling glass

All I can do with the rock on hand.

Very happy with the rock. Great looking rock with lots of open space and pretty porous. You get a lot of rock for the weight and the pieces they sent were quite nice. 2-3lbs of rubble at the bottom of the box which wasnt bad given the condition the sand arrived in. Probably need another 20-30lbs to finish up what I had planned out. I wouldnt hesitate to recommend this rock to others, great looking stuff.

People have been complaining about it for months on RF and BRS insisted it was next to impossible and that there was no chance. Looks like they should have taken it seriously much sooner than they did. Nothing is secure, if somebody wants in, they'll get in.

Sand and rock arrived today but not without drama. One of the boxes was wet, had a big hole in it, and was missing a bag :( One of the bags split at the seam and puked it's guts out. Most of the sand stayed in the bag but all of the liquid seeped out and the box failed. Not sure why one of the bags was lost all together, you'd think UPS would have stuffed it back in there but I guess that would require way to much effort. The third box shipped in the box it came from the manufacturer and was repacked into another bigger box which arrived safe and sound. Dr Foster & Smith took care of it no questions asked and are shipping out two more bags (offered to return the one bag and told them I didnt particulary care that the sand was no longer "live" but they were happy to ship two new bags without the return of the damaged back). I'll certainly continue to use them in the future if I cant find what I'm looking for locally.

Couple of videos that may help you out can be found on youtube if you search for "automatic shut off valve". They seem to shut off almost immediately.