Anyone made shelves for LR with acrylic??

[gregghia]

I have some left over arylic and I wanted to make some type of shelving or stands so that I can create tiers for my live rock to sit on in my 75gal. Anyone done this? Any pics out there or ideas to help me with the project....

 

[floatingfish]

i have been contemplating doing the same thing just with some sort of egg crate stuff. that way i could still have good flow to all areas. i would like to see how it turns out if you go for it.

 

[floatingfish]

do you mean flat sheet of plexiglass when you say acrylic?

 

[brucoh]

Yeah, I just built a 3 tier stand for my live rock a couple of weeks ago. I used acrylic sheet with acrylic rod for the legs. Here's my pics. 50 gal. tank BTW.
Front view

Side views

Back of the stand

 

[floatingfish]

oh.....i see what you are saying. i thought you ment rocks, shelves, then rocks. just like a layer effect. the pedestal idea is really cool. it look amazing. i always see it being used at the LFS to display coral. there should be no downfall to that method.

 

[brucoh]

I'm pretty happy with it. You can make your tank look full with less rock. It gives my tank really good flow. The powerhead that I have pointed along the back of the tank and under the rocks eliminates deadspots.

 

[gregghia]

Brucoh where did you get the rod from? I like what you did. I tried with PVC but stands out too much...

 

[brucoh]

I ordered it online. Just google "acrylic rod" and a bunch of plastics companies will come up. (I'd put who I got it from, but apparently they frown on putting links any other company on this website cough, cough... usplastics.com...cough) If you have a plastics company in the town you live in, you could probably get it there too.