Post #794504 by eroc on Tue, Apr 16, 2019 5:13 AM

Hearn, thank you for the advice! I was all over the place with sink designs, but I think I am settling in the the deep basin version, but maybe a bronze or something dark.

I ended up getting the aquarium last night. It became a classic case of "eyes bigger than my stomach". It looked much smaller at the store. Anyway, price was $400, but talked them down another $100 due to damage on the base (which I'm going to reskin anyway), and another 50% off because they didn't have the hood/light fixture (which I didn't want either). So $150 for this monstrosity. Pretty good deal, I think.

I had to put it 'off-center' so that it would span two joists. It's going to be around 800 pounds (65 gallons), so wanted to make sure I had as much support as I could get. 50 PSF rated floor, 3x10 uniform load area is 30sf times 50psf, which means it can support 1500 pounds. Placed perpendicular to the joist at a bearing wall to reduce bending force. Fingers crossed...

Going to have to get creative with my shelving design, now that I have much less space for them....

Guess who is excited about a box of rocks!?!?!

This guy!

[ Edited by: eroc 2019-04-16 11:39 ]