What did I need to keep discus? Well, a tank obviously. I purchased a 210 gallon tank (currently residing well protected in my garage), but after some good advice from Willie & Tom in a different thread, I picked up a 75 gallon tank when Petco had a 50% off sale. The tank would also need a stand. My wife and I found the commercially available stands to be either ugly, or too expensive, so we decided that I would build the stand(s). See, I had already agreed to build her a stand for the 50 gallon lowboy aquarium she had acquired to house her axolotl. This tank has a 4 ft x 2 ft footprint, but is only 10 inches high. Seemed like a perfect tank to practice my stand building skills on since the full tank wouldn't weigh that much, meaning my mistakes (if I made any) here would be less costly than on, say, a 210 gallon tank, where everything would need to be as perfect and perfectly level as I could possibly make it. So on Feb 28 I started. Here's a few pics of it in progress:
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And the finished product:
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There's an axolotl in there somewhere.
This stand was finished and put in place on March 23. It was time to start the stand for the 75 gallon. Using what I learned from the 50 gallon lowboy stand, I expected the build to take much less time. More on that next time.