Building a new stand - suggestions welcome

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

I built the one rocket engineer shows on that first link for my basement sump. It's rock solid! I added 2 braces going front to back along the middle of it so I could mount stuff to it underneath. If you wanted, you can also add a solid top of 3/4" marine plywood it's certainly not necessary unless you need 100% support under your tank. You can also wrap it with vertical T&G and add a couple doors on the front to dress it up a bit.

3/4 is not necessary, but having a top is nice for mounting stuff underneath definitely. That stand is rock solid for sure. Also keep in mind that its more the skin of the stand that gives the solidness than the stand it self. Left to right and front to back wobble will be there to some extent until you skin it. Not that its a big deal once you have a few hundred lbs of water on it.

It's not in those threads but I also added some of this under my stand to keep the wires clean. Looks good and it's pretty inexpensive. 2"x2" finger duct.