DocRose
Active Member
What I'm trying to gauge is the worth in re-setting up my 90 gallon tank. I've had that for two years in the past. I did a Fluval 13.5 just sitting on a table. And recently I've done a 29g standard with a generic stand. The issues I've seen with standard tank stands, is the limited workspace inside. Both in my 90 and my 29, I noticed that depending on how you plumb them, the sump has to sit pretty much dead center in the stand. This makes working inside of my 29 very difficult. There's such limited space due to the plumbing, that I'm fed up with trying to work under there. I was going to upgrade to a Red Sea Reefer (and I still probably will), but my wife wants me to consider setting my 90g back up. I told her the issue with that one isn't the limited work space beneath; but the fact that the sump usually needs to sit dead center beneath so that you can reach all compartments (thanks to the small doors on those stands). This leaves a lot of space on either side of the sump unused, because it can't be reached.
So here's where this post comes in. Red Sea Reefers and Waterboxes have these AMAZING stands, where the doors open to fully expose the interior. It (IMO) makes working inside of them amazing. My question is why can't we get the same thing with the doors on standard tank stands? What about these Reefer/Waterbox stands makes them so structurally sound, that they basically don't need a front. And is it possible to replicate that design for a 90g standard tank?
So here's where this post comes in. Red Sea Reefers and Waterboxes have these AMAZING stands, where the doors open to fully expose the interior. It (IMO) makes working inside of them amazing. My question is why can't we get the same thing with the doors on standard tank stands? What about these Reefer/Waterbox stands makes them so structurally sound, that they basically don't need a front. And is it possible to replicate that design for a 90g standard tank?
