Might be a stupid question but it has been bugging me

[ldzielak]

I setup a 120 in October. I had 2 holes for 1.5" bulkheads(over flows) drilled at one end of the tank, each is a corner and 2 1" bulkhead for the returns at the other, again each in corners. I have no plumbing out sides the tank, so you can walk arround 3 sides. So the point was to have over flows and return line from inside the tank.

I called Seastar and asked what was the best place. The middle of the tank is the weakess place, corners or edges are the best.

They also recomend plywood under you tank with a short pile carpet on top to take up the imprefections between wood and glass. This way you support the entire bottom of the tank. This is the practice they recomend for large bottom reef tanks. For my 120, that is 60"x24" I used two sheets of 5/8" plywood. For larger tanks they recomend 2 sheets of 3/4" or more. Obviously your stand would also have to have cross braces to take the load. With this setup, rock directly on the glass would be no problem.

I have an aragonite DSB. Under the rocks I have almost no sand, on the edges I have 3" or more, so my gobie will not cause destruction of the rocks or kill him self.

[ 07 December 2001: Message edited by: Lee ]