Excellent idea with the French Cleats! Could you post a photo of how they are attached to the steel stand please?

You may regret not putting anything on the floor to protect it. It's not too late to quickly drain the tank into a stock tank and slide a piece of acrylic under there... :)

Nice work , looks great


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ive always found putting something under it just traps moisture and does more damage over time

french cleats are just screwed in using self tapping screws

you wish you had a hairy guy under your stand

Salt spray from the skimmer and such will damage that floor in no time. You can raise the sump off the floor with plywood (on the bottom rail of the stand) and then only the steel stand will touch the floor, no trapping of moisture.

French cleats

https://i.imgur.com/S47ahOrh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MIalgNxh.jpg


Behind the panels

https://i.imgur.com/zAGNKRjh.jpg

The cleats look great, thanks for the pics! I need to do some work on my stand this year (it has rusted), and probably redesign my panels. I'll keep this in mind.

Update time...

Tank is just over 6 months now. I've decided to not rush this time. I'm mainly keeping LPS at the moment, but slowly starting to add some sps as the system matures.

Fairly low maintenance, mostly sitting back and enjoying the view ;)

As the system matures I will be moving towards more of a SPS dominant tank, but in the meantime I'm really enjoying some of these corals...

https://i.imgur.com/dheECjLh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pRGhqnph.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hJgsHrwh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yPO0Vz2h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/DPlkPhnh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/xsTkmCBh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3kNtRuah.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zGB1eGYh.jpg

wow some very nice corals , are you finding those lobo / bowerbankis local ? or are you ordering them in and if so from where ?

Thanks!

Colors could be better. But the tank is coming along :)

I'll message you about sourcing the Bowers and lobos