Patent ID: 7152552

Claim:
An assembly for allowing a user to create a variety of aquatic display stands, said assembly comprising: a plurality of uniquely shaped modular members sized and shaped for being interfitted in a variety of patterns, each modular member being provided with at least one linear slot formed therein, each modular member having a body provided with a uniform thickness and further having planar top and bottom surfaces such that a selected body portion of said modular members can be slidably and directly engaged within the slots respectively, each of the slots being coextensively spaced such that the slots can be directly and interchangeably engaged; a reservoir provided with detachably conjoined upper and lower regions wherein said upper region defines a cavity for housing water and aquatic creatures, said lower region being directly engageable with selected ones of said modular members so that the reservoir can be maintained at a substantially stable and elevated position above a ground surface, wherein said reservoir comprises means for illuminating an outer perimeter of said lower region, said illuminating means being housed with said lower region and isolated from said upper region, and means for removing undesirable debris from the water contained within said upper region, said debris removing means being housed within said lower region and being in direct fluid communication with said upper region; and a controller for manually activating said illuminating means and said debris removing means based upon a user input.