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Wow! That stand and hood look awesome!

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I see you went with the flex seal on the inside of your canopy, what did you use in your under cabinet? I used the same thing when we built our smaller stand in black and used the white when I refurbished my larger stand. My only complaint is that it is difficult to wipe down thoroughly and get clean. But a great choice otherwise!

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I see you went with the flex seal on the inside of your canopy, what did you use in your under cabinet? I used the same thing when we built our smaller stand in black and used the white when I refurbished my larger stand. My only complaint is that it is difficult to wipe down thoroughly and get clean. But a great choice otherwise!

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I used white flex seal for the inside of both the canopy and under cabinet. For the metal stand I coated it in POR-15
 

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Good call on the POR-15.

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Good call on the POR-15.

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I tossed around the idea of bed liner and powder coating. But with magnetically attached panels I was worried about chipping the powder coating and bed liner being too thick for magnets. Ultimately POR-15 was the best decision I could go with.
 

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I tossed around the idea of bed liner and powder coating. But with magnetically attached panels I was worried about chipping the powder coating and bed liner being too thick for magnets. Ultimately POR-15 was the best decision I could go with.
We thought briefly about using powder coating, but the hubby's garage is occupied by 2 project trucks so we didn't really have to space to do it ourselves. Ultimately since the frames are wood, we decided it would be overkill anyways given the size and weight of the tanks.

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Picked up my rock and sand today. 160# of Caribsea South Seas Shelf, 40# Caribsea South Seas Base, 160# Caribsea Dry Special Grade sand. I was hoping to start rockscape tomorrow but duty calls and I’m heading to south Louisiana to start a refinery fire assessment so it’ll have to wait. My plan is to try a combination of negative space and shelf for something kind of unique. 1A96014E-098E-4847-A1A3-9B9E7214EB09.jpeg
 
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I was able to come home for the next few days before I head back to southern Louisiana. I took a little time to play around with the rockscape. Input appreciated EE3CC421-848C-40A0-8CB8-9159F2B70F50.jpeg CEA0D693-1F8C-41A0-B4EC-BA128AAC82B1.jpeg 3F54BBA3-8A19-4580-BC1B-EBA17903145E.jpeg F1401195-02BE-45A9-81E9-7FEB532F690F.jpeg 44B7BFEC-D9C0-485D-B519-3792D0F1910A.jpeg
 
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Not yet man. Just got my sump in a few days ago so finishing up the plumbing now and trying to move it into the house this week. Told my wife I’d have it in the house and running before Christmas.
 
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