Show me Your Fancy STANDS!!!

[BrandonFlorida]

Haha, love the english bulldog in your pic 79chopperdr. We have a male named Gilbert..

 

[jdantunes]

Beautiful stand and canopy, 79chopperdr!

It really complement the rest of the room. Is that 180 gallons?

 

[79chopperdr]

^^^^^ thanks! it's a 210

Here's the link to my build thread

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2315310

 

[behlke]

Just finished reading through all 80+ pages. I looked at the half before the split as well. There are so many great stands! So much inspiration to draw from for the stand I am about to build.

Thank you everyone for posting.

 

[feh]

Still work in progress, but I have started staining the main part of the stand. Will have doors in a few weeks. Yes, two-toned stained on same piece of wood. Risky, but the method I used seems to work if done right, but time consuming.

 

[sphinx105]

Well here is my diy stand. Don't know if I would call it fancy or not. Here is the build thread link

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1449932&page=3

I cant get the pic to load from this android device. Ill try again later.

 

[Western_reefer]

Here is my DIY stand


All finished:



All stained:



Link to my diary thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2236353

 

[AdamSabina]

My first 150 gallon. Aluminum frame with red Oak exterior

 

[h8z2luze]

Western reefer looks like we had similar ideas. Except my front panel comes all the way off and just looks like doors haha. It is held on by magnets

 

[mhucasey]

Here is mine. The front and side panels pop off for access. The stand is made from Mahogany and Jarrah with hardwood plywood inserts. The sump used to go in the side on a rolling shelf, but its been moved to the garage now.

 

[loganlemaster]

Heres mine, built it myself. I limo tinted my glass doors blacked out during the day see throught at night, makes a nice effect.

 

[nemosworld]

 

[postie1686]

nothing to impressive, but for being built with just a jig saw to cut... i think it turned out ok.
sorry the photo attaches but wont show

 

[mhucasey]

Heres mine, built it myself. I limo tinted my glass doors blacked out during the day see throught at night, makes a nice effect.

I like it a lot!

 

[feh]

Still work in porogress...

 

[davocean]

So glad this thread is still alive!
This is one I did for a client not long ago, pretty simple really.
They wanted a built in/part of the house and clean modern look, so I added chair rail and baseboard to tie it all in.
Backwall access eliminated the need for doors, so we went that route for a super clean look.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

davocean,
That looks good, I would like to see the other side of the wall.

 

[davocean]

davocean,
That looks good, I would like to see the other side of the wall.

Thanks, while the stand was built by me, the homeowner and a couple other people handled the rest, so I will just post their build thread from our local site so they all get credit due for their own work.
The homeowner and his father did a fantastic job on the lights which also come through the backwall, hiding all wires, keeping it clean.
I posted this to show a great way to do an 8' long tank w/ a single seamless sheet of ply, because anyone who's tried knows w/ framing it comes up just short of wrapping around, so adding simple quarter round at ends bumps it that inch and a half that gets ya where you need to be in a mega simple way, and moulding added just ties in and gives some flavor, also in a pretty simple way.

http://www.sdreefs.com/forums/showthread.php?97403-My-300g-build

 

[gdemos]

120g custom in wall

120g custom in wall

some cab build progress pics... replacing an otherwise thin useless closet space to a custom 120g in-wall build. all plumbing runs to my fish room in the basement.

thanks for looking.

 

[davocean]

some cab build progress pics... replacing an otherwise thin useless closet space to a custom 120g in-wall build. all plumbing runs to my fish room in the basement.

thanks for looking.

That's nice, I probably would have wrapped that top cornice around same as you did on the bottom to balance out evenly, but just a minor detail, still looks very nice.