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What do you use for feet?

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heatherhead42

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For your tank, I mean! lol

I'm considering putting a 20 gallon Long on top of a piece of furniture and, for both aesthetic and practical purposes, want a gap between the surface and the bottom of the tank.

I'd like to have decorative feet on the tank--something with an Asian flare, preferably, but I'm game for something simple and clean also, but with a "furniture" feel to it (no plastic casters, for instance).

What do you use? Any thoughts or creative ideas? And how do you attach them to the bottom of the tank?

Thanks!

Heather
 
I just used the free clear rubber feet that came with my UTH honestly. Good luck in your search!
 
I am SO glad you made specifications! I sure didn't want to have to take pics of my ugly, stinky and sometimes painful feet and then have to post them on the world-wide web!
 
i don't do this personally or not sure how well it'll work but its an idea you could cut out the style you want out of wood and glue them on to the bottom of the tank or something like that could work. i personally just use the rubber uth ones too. but was thinkin bout this before
 
If you can find enough of them, you could always glue some chopsticks along the botton of the tank? that's about as asian as i could think that would work for a tank.
 
Oooo... chopsticks! What a clever idea. That's the kind of creativity I'm going for here--something that won't break the bank but will fit the theme and look intentional. Thank you!

I also like the idea of just finding a piece of molding or something in the right style and cutting and gluing. Or I could use the rubber feet (although I'm using Flexwatt, which doesn't come with feet--we've been using child's blocks on the bottom of the python's bin, lol) and glue something on the outside purely as a decorative facade.

Thanks so much! I'll let you all know (in several months) what I work out. :)

Heather
 
You can buy little discreet feet (not sure what they're made of) to go under furniture to keep it up off wooden floors. I have them under my tables legs etc. They could work well for a tank.
 
I bet you could find a cheap piece of bamboo at a home decor shop or maybe a craft shop. You could split that in half and use it as feet.
 
if you're artistically inclined, you could sculpt them yourself out of sculpey?

i'm not sure about your tank, but mine has a raised glass bottom due to the frame lifting it off the ground- if i was going to make feet, i'd flip the tank upside down, and just press the sculpey into the corners to make a mold- then take it off and cook it, and it should just barely fit back on?

just an idea, i'm not really sure how you'd make sure they were stable though.
 
Rubber stoppers, like for test tubes. They are working GREAT... give a nice big gap, and don't slide. Not sure where you'd get them from- I used old, battered ones from school.
 
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