Above tank platform/ scaffolding

Lionfish hunter · Jan 11, 2025

I am building a house and am putting a 72" long 48" deep 30" tall tank in the wall. The tank itself will be in a closet behind the living room. Closet dimensions 11' long 6' wide 10' ceilings. I am trying to figure out a way to get to the front of the tank without having access from the front. So some sort of above the tank platform seems like it could work. Would need to be something I can put up and take down without too much hassle. Has anyone done this or have any ideas?

Subsea · Jan 11, 2025

So, when you saw 48” deep, that means front to back which makes tank footprint 4’ by 7’ and at 2.5’ tall or 70 cubic feet at about 525G.

Why have you eliminated access from the front? Seems easy enough to frame front of tank with access at the top. How deep is bottom of display above the floor? Is living room 10’ the same as the closet?

Why 4’ from front to back? If you reduced the distance to 2’, you would eliminate a lot of work.

Lionfish hunter · Jan 12, 2025

Subsea said:
So, when you saw 48” deep, that means front to back which makes tank footprint 4’ by 7’ and at 2.5’ tall or 70 cubic feet at about 525G.

Why have you eliminated access from the front? Seems easy enough to frame front of tank with access at the top. How deep is bottom of display above the floor? Is living room 10’ the same as the closet?

Why 4’ from front to back? If you reduced the distance to 2’, you would eliminate a lot of work.

Footprint is 6’x4’. No I do not want to cut the width of the tank from 4’ to 2’… first off, that would make it much smaller than my current tank. And I am upgrading the size because the fish need more room. There are a million reasons to have a deep tank, and there are currently 0 reasons that are going to stop me from doing it.

It would certainly look better to have just a in wall picture frame tank view vs having a hinged access above. If I can’t figure out how to get a above tank access then I will have to have an access from the front. But of course I would like to figure out a possible platform, which is why I posted this.