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Hi there, thanks for the input.

The pond liner has since been relocated. It runs up the wall about 8 inches now and I will be running more peices down and over lapping the bottom pce. It's hard to explain but when I am done the stand it's self will hold water.

The edges of the liner will be siliconed to the floor thus not allowing any water under it. I did this with my 55 and it works awesome. I designed it so that the cavity under my tank can hold more then 55 gal as I didn't want to drill a floor drain in the floor where my tank currently sits.

I have NUMEROUS plans to keep water from ever hitting the floor and if it should it will be directly into a floor drain, filter sock and back into the sump.

My 55 has been up for 4 months and I have yet to spill a single drop of water on the floor around it. Knock on wood!!

I thought about removing the 2x4 top but I already have all the lumber and it puts my counter top 3.75 inches higher then the 2x6's, giving a person a little more room for their legs under the tank and it gives me a nice straight line across the front to attach my oak trim.

I am buying a second hand tank so I am not sure where it was built or buy whom. It is being sold by another forum member.

http://www.ultrafab.net/temp/230/New%20230.jpg

Yes, the sump tank is in the basement below the tank. I just finished building everything done there and I couldn't be happier.

I can't wait to see what this looks like when its completed.

Wow Bassman, that looks like it is going to be a pretty cool setup!

Thanks, I can't wait to see it finished either, I love building this kind of stuff. My only sorrow is that this will probably be the last one of these I will get to build. LOL That is if I want to stay married.

It will be nice to finally have a properly designed system that I can just leave be instead of upgrading things all the time but I will miss all the DIY stuff.

Once it's all done I will be knocking out the wall to the left of the tank, opening up the kitchen on the otherside. :-)

WOW that stand could hold up your entire house. LOL

Looks Great can't wait to see more

J

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Originally Posted by Jason McK (Post 315532)

WOW that stand could hold up your entire house. LOL

Looks Great can't wait to see more

J

Thanks, that was kind of the idea LOL, I don't any room for doubt on this stand.

I think I have finally decided on a plan for the rest of the cabinet. Took some major calculating to get all the dimesions right and have everything balance out. I had to change my original plans because I am going to be building a dry moat around the bottom of tank now to deal with any over flows or leaks.

http://www.ultrafab.net/temp/230/Stand%20Pic.jpg

Pics of the moat to come. I will be building it today.

Wow! That's going to look great when it's done.