How tall is your stand? and how tall is too tall??

38.5" to the top of the plywood the tank sits on.

 

looks great,thanks for the info

 

Thats a great looking stand, nice finish job

 

My stand is about 35" high and I like it, it could be a little higher but it's not bad, I have to worry about ceiling height with the tank and canopy and flip up lid on the canopy.
One thing about how high you can go, it will vary greatly based on the tank size, whether it will have a sump in it, and whether you will have a heavy canopy etc as to whether it will be stable or not.
Putting a skinny tank, like 12" wide, with a big canopy on a 40" stand with no sump in the bottom will be pretty topheavy and might be risky. On the other hand a 24" wide tank with a sump under it could probably easily sit on a 45" stand and be quite stable.

For reference I have a 12" wide tank on a 35" tall stand with no sump and I feel pretty comfortable with it as is, but I wouldn't want to go much higher because it's on the verge of being too topheavy especially since I have a canopy.

It's really nice having a lot of room under the tunk to work on the sump/plumbing etc so I highly recommend tall stands even if it means you need a step stool or something to reach the bottom of the tank.

 

well as i said at the start my stand is 1.4m and the tank is 55cm high so it makes the top of the tank around the 2m mark (sorry for the metric system) i made my own stand out of 70mm square beams of treated pine so its quite over kill with lots of room underneath, hence the 1.4m high part. this gives me room to have shelving in there for what ever i want to put about the skimmer and it being a 6ft tank gives lots of room underneath like more volume under the tank that actually in it. then i have the tank set out from the wall so from the wall to the front of the tank is 3ft so yet again even more room and i can even get behind the tank to do what ever like clean the pesky algae on the back glass GRR.
yes i have to use a chair to service it but i much prefer to have the whole tank at eye level so you can get right up and even look at the small inverts.

nice stand AZDesertRat but i think mine is about double in height. and its painted white with detatchable doors.

and as for you seabass1 here down unda its HOT around the 39c+ mark each day and in some part it is flooding and others it fires so its pretty crazy weather down here. hope you all are enjoying the cooler chistmas weather over there

 

i agree that its a matter of preference and what kind of space you need below for your eqiupment. as another reefer mentioned, it's probably a good idea to get the skimmer before you build the stand. i built my tank in-wall and then realized, WOW my skimmer would not fit below it at the height its at. thankfully in my case i have a 8x6 room to work with so i simply had to move the sump location a bit away from the tank to allow for height.

 

Ideally the top of my tanks should be about armpit level, so I can reach down into the tank without needing something to stand on.

Other than that, the taller the better within reason.

 

2 points from me

1 - veiwing pleasure is ideal, so eye level for tank while your sat down is best
if you build it to tall, you might find you have to stand on steps to reach the sand bed of even average height tanks

2 - how tall is AZDesertRats stand was not the 1st question that came to my mind when I saw his post, the 1st question that came to my mind was " how can we get to see more pictures of his tank?"

Steve