Greg, I had promised Frankie some pics of the seams of the tank, and I'll try to get some tonight. Glass cages has this size of a tank classified as industrial. They put a TON of extra bracing all the way around the bottom and the bracing around the top is unbelievable! There isn't any way this tank will leak or bow. The seams along the bottom will be covered with sand and the outside trim so you won't be able to see it, which is the way it should be IMHO. I even told Patti last night that now that I know how Glass Cages builds tanks, I wish I would have had them build the 450 too.
And for the stand, by having the bolts like that, when we were leveling the legs we got the leg closest to the 450 stand at the height we wanted so it would match the height of the 450. Then we leveled it across. And with the bolts, we could adjust the level down to a tiny fraction of an inch. Then we put in the next leg and leveled it to the first leg. Repeat that for all four legs. We ended up with a meticulously leveled stand.