Joy and I went to pick up the stand for the aquarium today. The tank and canopy were also supposed to arrive, but there were some problems with those. The tank was listed as in stock with the distributor, but for some reason they did not send it with the rest of the shipment. The custom order canopy was made incorrectly by the manufacturer, so it had to be reordered for them to make again, hopefully correctly this time. But all that aside, the stand looks great. The customization is exactly what I requested and I’m really happy with it. The local aquarium store talked to the distributor, and the tank is supposed to arrive next week (since it is still listed as in stock), and the canopy will move to the front of the line for the custom shop since they are fixing their mistake, so hopefully that will only take a couple of weeks.
Also, now that I was finally able to measure the actual stand, I discovered that the standard skimmer body will work to replace the broken custom short one, which means I should get the replacement skimmer body next week instead of several months from now. That was really good news.