Time to setup my 2 180g tanks

[ldzielak]

Mike,

Ya that is what I meant, you walk up the stairs and can look through both tanks, just don't know how clean I could keep the glass on the second one, where the stairs get down too far. Right now I have a 3 sided tank, this would just be explanding to a much larger scale (3x the volume!!)

Buk,

"cantilever" I guess I don't understand? this part is an out croping on the house, so the main wall would have support directly under the tank, right down the center. I could always tear into the wall downstairs (will be my home office) and put some 4x4 in there too. Or make a book case with 2x6 at the end, to help take the load. I know anything past the main wall is not meant to take any load. I figured if only 6" of the tank is past the wall I would be fine. Tank is 24" deep, this section is recessed 22", if I leave lots of room for plumbing on the back side, I would think I'm alright.

The stub wall is 10'4" long now, just thinking if I could extend that to 12'6" or is anything in the full wall structural? I would use some 4x4 and make a post replacing the last banister post down stairs.

Lee