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Old 10-30-2009, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by sphelps View Post
Haha, carbon fiber stand that's probably some of the worst material selection I've seen. What's the most important criteria of your fish tank stand material, strength to weight ratio?? I don't think so. Plus it's strong in tension but not so much in compression. You'd have to be the worlds biggest sucker to buy that stand
Oh, I'm sure it could be made strong enough It's all in how the fiber is laid. If they can make crash structures for race cars that can withstand 50g impacts and jet fighter wings that can handle the forces of sudden 9g maneuvers of 30 ton aircraft I think they could make a stand for probably less than 50 gallons of aquarium and water. Just think about how it would look in a man cave


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Check out the hanging fish tanks on that site. Thought they would have to be pretty thin, but it looks like there is some pretty big chunks of live rock in there.

http://www.opulentitems.com/Hanging-...ank_p_939.html
Those do look thin in the pictures but the specs say they are 12" or 14" deep depending on the size. They do look cool too.
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