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As most people, got some time to spare; been painting a house but colors have not been chosen for the bedroom so seems this week besides Th and Fr will be dedicated to complete the stand.
The tank is an Oceanic 70G no center brace and drilled for two bulkheads 1.5" each, yes two 1.5"!! on one side
I made the overflow box out of PVC but think I will change that one to plexy from scraps at TAP (cheap) I'm feeling more comfortable working with acrylic now, at least for smaller things. The box shown is a smaller one going into a 30G reef but first I have to drill the tank, just need to get the circular diamond saw. It will be similar and will use egg-crate instead of routing the teeth.
Stand is 3/4" plywood reinforced with 1" pine and will have two large doors, one per side, as for the top (canopy) most likely will have a flip front since the tank has to slide in place somehow.
The front corners meet at an angle of 45 which was hard to get it right, couple times had to re-do the cut with the circular saw.
As far as color I don't know what color on it red cherry/mahogany is my favorite but since I'll end up selling it on CL might as well leave it plain for the person to chose one.
I had to care for my kids most of today, tomorrow school starts and my wife has some appointments so she worked Sunday to have tomorrow kind of free??
Anyway, late in the afternoon I decided it was time to cut the doors and place the sump to be tank. My brother asked me what the hell am I to do with this tank; well the hobby isn't cheap so I have to fund it somehow.
As far as color, I have not decided yet, maybe I'll swing to HD to check stains.
That's really coming along nicely :
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Looking good man.. Are you going to make side doors for the canopy also??
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Phong
Looks good Mario!
Looks really sweet, once that sucker is stained up it should look ultra sweet, personally I'm a fan of either the ultra darks if there's serious wood grain sexiness, or the reddish browns (but only when varnished to look shiny).
Out of curiosity how is the entire top part of the canopy held up? It doesn't look like much of anything is.
-Mike 
Thanks guys,
Phong: I was looking into side doors but since I have to slide the tank in, went for a flip top at the very front, still, have the markings for the side doors. I intent to place a plywood sheet running the length of the tank where the reflectors sit, instead of hanging and two fluorescent (either VHO, this ones I have or T5 meaning buying reflectors and everything else) attached at the bottom of the plywood; this way means no side doors but if I go with a light fixture then side doors would be nice but I want to keep the structural integrity of the upper part as much as possible and that means no cutting where is not needed.
Mike: I'm a fan of deep colors too, redish I like a lot, that's why you may find on CL Bombay Mahogany stands. The plywood has a nice grain but that's it, no swirling or sexy figures.
The top part has an inner support/frame 1"x2" which had me re-think about the canopy doors, the tank would not slide into the stand from the back, tank is 18 1/2 and in between the two vertical pieces of wood 17"
I screwed and glued the wood to the 3/4" plywood and hole pocketed where needed
This is the second peninsula stand I make, the other one was a 50G Bioreef my brother polished to like new condition and he sold it without even being finished.
Today I'm trashed, worked all day long and had no time to work on the stand, maybe on Wednesday.
Again thank you for your positive comments, it's great being here on BAR
Mario
Very nice tank stand and canopy.
Very good wood working skills you got there i am in the process f skinning my stand.
Thanks Adolfo !
My original plan was to skin the stand with bamboo flooring, toast color, kind of brownish compared to natural color bamboo but $100 extra just to experiment...
I'm just waiting for someone to have free surplus of bamboo flooring to experiment working with it.
check out Will's tank he has his in bamboo and i think i am going to follow suite with my stand.
Lots of progress on the stand, sanded the finish nail holes after filling them and cut the access flip front canopy part.
Next step is to cut the doors, one on each side 30" wide and as tall as possible to facilitate access. An old 30 long will do the part of the sump, just need to re-do the silicon and place baffles, I might opt for a regular 30 as a sump and have space under the stand for reactors or storage.
I test fitted an Aquactinics 36" MH/T5 combo that's practically brand new and I just have it stored doing nothing but the actual lighting will sit on a shelf/platform that will have the reflector/s sitting on top and supplemental T5 or VHO's fixed from beneath the shelf.
BTW that's me 30 years ago...
D Mario