 Free Aquarium Stand plans - After talking about it for years, we finally decided to embark on a new hobby of fishkeeping. Myself being the sort who is incapable of doing much on a small scale, I suggested we start with a 75 gallon aquarium. We went around to a few fish stores checking prices on a tank and stand. I suffered a bit of sticker shock at the prices for a cabinet stand. They were asking $180.00 for a mediocre pine stand built from about $40 in lumber. Talk about your profit margin. These are very popular stands, made by one of the top companies and found in every fish store, so they must be adequate for the job. Still I figure a 75 gallon setup will tip the scales at somewhere around 750 pounds so I wanted something I had confidence in. Besides, if I'm going to lay out $180 for a cabinet, I expect a better value for my money. The answer was to build one myself. I looked around the net for some plans, just to save designing something from scratch, but the majority of what I found was just how to make the same thing I saw in the store. So in the end I wound up building what you will see here. I know it's not exactly a snake cage, but I figured I'd document the construction anyway. After all I know alot of herp keepers enjoy their fish quariums as well. Also, this same stand will work for a standard 90 gallon tank as well. The only difference between a 75 and a 90 is the height. You can modify these plans to fit a 55 gallon easily too.
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