To set up or not to set up?

I used to have a stand like that for my 72 bowfront. Not sure if it used staples or not cause it was painted. I thought it looked kinda shady too, but I had it loaded with LR & corals & never had a problem with it. Here's a pic loaded on same stand with no extra bracing.

 

WOW! Looks really nice. Makes me want to get mine set up even more now. What kind of lights are you using? Looks really white in the picture. Anyways! Guess since I got the wood might as well use it and yes! staples! I found it quite odd. I going to try and talk myself in to setting up the tank Sunday anyways!

 

Perhaps not needed, I added my support to the stand, with 3 in the back and 4 in the front my mind is much more at ease now and I am sure it can handle 100's of extra pounds, hahaha!!

 

Will the owner just left here and I had a talk with him and I have been giving the go ahead. So there is nothing stopping me now. I guess he actually did some looking in to the building structure and told me it would be OK. YES!

 

I believe we had MH's & PC's on that tank. It was a tank we had a few years ago. It held mostly mushrooms & cheap polyps. The urchin can be destructive lil guy with his spines moving things around. Good to hear the owner gave you the green light. I set me new tank up a week ago & had to take it down cause it started leaking the other day. Looks like I'm gettin a new tank now.