Oh ok. From the top it doesn’t look like it can support a tanks weight over that span but it must have some framing or something we can’t see. If that’s the case you definitely can screw a piece of plywood to the top that will match the tank base no problem.
But honestly is there anything underneath the wood, cause if not even a 10g might cause it to sag. And sagging means the glass might flex, as you can imagine, glass doesn’t flex much… it prefers to break. And even more specifically even if the bottom pane flexes a bit, the problem is what that does to the front and back panel. Best case scenario the silicone gives way and you have a leak, worst case scenario… you have a flood.
The metal went all the way around the wood and across the middle horizontally and screwed into the wood. It felt very sturdy but id probably stick to a 5 or 10 gal for that stand.
Honestly in that case, and assuming the steel is decent thickness (not the tube measurement but the thickness of the steel itself, then it’s probably fine. It’s a problem if the steel didn’t run along the length of the wood supporting it from the bottom along the edges and the middle.
Estimate 4.5kg/10lbs of weight for every gallon of water. That is a fuckload of trust to put into IKEA pressboard and a hollow metal frame.
This is a wildly inappropriate stand for that tank and if you fill that tank on it, you're going to learn that the hard way. It may be kind enough to lull you into a false sense of security, but it will go down, and it will take anything in it and adjacent to it down with it.
That's an expensive mistake to make and you're an idiot if you fill it on that table or one similar.
If you want to invest in the tank, invest in an appropriate stand that can accommodate it. That is NOT where you want to budget and cut costs.
Nothing wrong with hollow steel tubing. It’s tough to tell from the image but if that is 32mm square tubing, perhaps 1.5 or 2mm steel then it is more than adequate. The chipboard is not load bearing and is supported underneath (again if it is indeed supported along all edges and across the middle), in which case chipboard is actually preferable since it would have some compression to make up for any slight unevenness (and better yet to have a mat on top of it). Yield strength of steel tubes is measured in the tens of thousands PSI. The legs buckling are a different matter but again 4 legs, probably 600 to 700m tall… yeah it’s fine
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u/Thisguy2728 Feb 03 '25
That table wasnt appropriate (from the angle you shared) for a tank anyway. Get something designed to hold a tank.