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Surfin online for DIY fish tanks and stumbled on this guy. I liked the look and since mine was a 20 gallon versus the pictured 29 gallon, I was able to reduce the strength in the cabinet. I went ahead and bought 2×2’s for the corner legs and 1\/4″ plywood for the panels. I will add a flat panel door to the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Implementation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Trying to save costs, I had leftover 1\/4″ AC plywood lying around and so I only needed to purchase the 1×4’s to box the top and bottom and 1×6’s to build a frame around the fish tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cut the 1×4’s to proper length based on the aquarium length and depth. Using the new router cabinet, cut slots for biscuit. Glue together with biscuits for a strong joint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the top box and bottom box are done, nail a layer of plywood on top of one of the boxes, this will serve as a platform for the aquarium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Route the bottom box’s top outer edges for a finished look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I, placed the aquarium on top of the plywood top, and layered the 1×6’s so that the bottom plastic frame of the aquarium is covered. Cut and glue the 1×6’s to the top box. I used 45 degree miter cuts so the edge is aligned with the edge of the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note:Use scrap wood to ensure 45 cuts will meld to 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Route the top box’s face frame similar to the bottom box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I rabbeted the 2×2 legs to the depth of the plywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Screw and glue the 2×2 legs to the top boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cut the plywood to the dimensions of the 2×2 rabbet joints and nail to 2×2’s<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Slip on the bottom box and glue and screw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sand, Stain, and Polyurethane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April 19th, 2013, Daughter went to the Aquarium for the first time, there I noticed she loved watching the moving fishes. Original Concept Surfin online for DIY fish tanks and stumbled on this guy. I liked the look and since mine was a 20 gallon versus the pictured 29 gallon, I was able to reduce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}