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Hi Alex,

Any updates? Would love too see some photos of the plumbing and filtration.

Any updates?

Black looks so much better than the blue and orange! Good choice!

Any updates?

19 hours ago, Alex said:

That doesn't fill me with a heap of confidence though. Were your tanks sitting directly over the beams? did you run cross bracing joining both of the beams together?

Yes, directly on the beams. I had 2133mm beams and the width was 610mm. So the tanks fit in exactly with very little space on the sides and in between the tanks.

And no I didn't have cross bracing.

I think that because yours is slightly shorter beams, with the cross bracing, yours will have less bend than mine did, if at all.

Also, I only had 1cm poly and all my tanks were fine. I'd suggest 2cm+ poly on yours.

But with all this said, my tanks were only 18in high, not 24.

13 hours ago, Bradc said:

Probably find that the 2 tanks on that 1 shelf weren't the width of the rails and it was the ply flexing not the stand. Im interested to see how yours turns out im thinking of doing something similar but making my own racking i do a fair bit of welding at work so i have access to a mig and enough know how to make my own. Wanna try a 6ft shell dwellers tank and a tropheus tank.

Wasn't ply, was mdf. Tanks were directly on the beams/rails.

On 30/10/2016 at 2:16 PM, Alex said:

Set up the pallet racking just because I couldn't help myself. Will be getting resprayed back this week at some stage. The owner of the store I bought the tanks from has warned me of pallet racking bending and cracking bases of tanks, has anyone had this happen to them or heard of this?

I have running 4x cross supports on each level to spread the load a bit more evenly and running a wood board underneath for the same reason.

I had Dexion Pallet racking for my tanks as well. They were rated 1.6ton per level.

I had a 3x2x18 and a 4x2x18 on a level. I could see when the tanks were next to each other that the top of the tanks were closer to each other that at the bottom, so there was definitely some bending. Not much, but still

I used 33mm board and 1cm poly.