you on a Sunday baby how's everybody
doing hope you're doing well listen we go working on the ghetto today
I want to show you how to make it work so here we go I've got this ghetto
40 frito right here and I want to show you how to do a ghetto stand the first
thing you need to understand with aquarium's is that a gallon of water
weighs about 8 pounds or a little less than 4 kilos if you're pushing rhymes
like weight so we want to have something beefy I recommend cinder blocks cinder
blocks rule these cinder blocks are dollar 25 apiece I've got just five
dollars in these four cinder blocks cinder blocks did a little less than I
eight inches tall and you want to actually stack them with the holes life
so they're great they're cheap they're beefy the problem is they will scratch
the hell out of your hardwood floor you think water does damage garden imagine
what your wife Beyonce or mother would do if you scratch your hardwood floor so
there's all kinds of alternatives you can use to pad the bottom of cinder
blocks this is the ghetto aquarium stand I'm going to give you a ghetto padded
solution simply take a piece of cardboard cut it to the size of the
bottom of the cinder block and place it in between the floor and the cinder
block this will keep be careful with it but this will keep your cinder blocks
from scratching up your wonderful hardwood floors now we're going to talk
about the top of this standing we're going to set our tank on to and for the
top of this ghetto aquarium stand I'm using pressure-treated lumber
this is actually an 8 foot long 2 by 10 cut in half this is a an 18 inch
aquarium by 36 I had an 8 foot long one cut in half because I might actually use
this on the 75 this was going to be your only stand you can cut it 36 you'd have
a little extra wood ah one note here if you don't have the money to spend on a
whole 10 bucks for a 8 foot piece of plywood you can use two by fours
although I would be careful on how far of a spread you have across if you're
using like a 6 foot tank this is kind of cool and you want to leave open space
under or fit another large tank under you can use a hard lumber and you can
actually a fix it with the 90-degree metal pieces right here drill
holes in it put screws in it and you can reinforce it along this area right here
that'll give you a little more structural integrity and give you a lot
more space underneath or you could just use another set of ghetto cinder blocks
in the middle right there like I've done in my 125s in the greenhouse so we've
got our wood down if you want to roll like this you're good to go but I've got
to get away to spruce it up underneath and give you a tad bit of non-visible
storage I actually learned this from my baby mamas mommy you take some of your
fabric color of your choice because remember folks ghetto can be any color
black or white and you attach it to the wood like so I'm using a vinyl fabric
here I got for like 2 bucks a yard at the local fabric place no you're going
to want to move the actual tank back quite a bit or off the stand prior to
doing because let's be honest things happen when you use a hammer and you're
nailing it towards the glass so take the cloth like so fold it over at the top
for a little better looking edge you can use black tacks or whatever you've got
so there you go and then one final note on aquarium stands this in my humble
opinion here if you're worried about the look of your aquarium stand you got
something wrong in your tank when your tank sit up and roll it should look good
you shouldn't be looking at the stand so that's what I got going on drop me a
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