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Is it best to have a steel stand directly on hardwood, or to put a 3/4" plywood base?  The steel stand has no feet btw, it will be sitting flat all the way around.

Slight update, I talked to a structural engineer and he was telling me my floor can hold up to 3000lbs, if I just glue/screw in some 12"x12" beam material along the joists closest to the load bearing wall to help distrubute the load.

The tank would be going over 4 joists for sure, almost 5, but if I moved it over the 5th it would not be center in my living room:(

Any thoughts? What type of glue would I use?

Not sure why the pics turned when uploaded on here, but you'll have to turn your head to the left to get the right point of view.

Can't you just run a 2x8 across the beams, and support with a couple teleposts?

Something like this:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Tiger-Brand-Super-S-Series-8-ft-4-in-Jack-Post-J-S-100/100022783

I live in a house that's a few years old, I am debating on putting in a larger tank that would be going across perpendicular to the support beams against a load bearing center wall. Would you suggest extra support for the joists in the basement?

Also, the tank would be sitting on hardwood, so would I just need a piece of 1" piece of foam or plywood under the stand for protection/leveling purposes?

Why is the stand so short?

And personally I would have used sand for substrate.

Other than that, it looks neat.

Have the fish arrived???????

^^very nice

Any update? What is on the list available for order???

Yeah, I noticed as well. What a shame.

Yeah, I'm hoping to find a good deal on Boxing day. Most local stores are pretty limited, and if they do have it, they are overpriced especially for Eheim.

The last place I saw german reds was at Franco's in Calgary but that was also 2 years ago. It's hard to find nice peacocks anymore as most avid cichlid keepers have switched to marine aquatics

Yep, I have browsed through all the stores in Edmonton and Calgary. Very slim on good livestock, it's quite sad actually.

I wouldn't use round rocks..

Where do you guys buy them? Locally? Online?

Thanks