My friend lives up stairs in an apartment. He keeps asking me this question and I told him I would find out for him on MFK...How big of an aquarium could he have in an apartment on the 2nd floor?
guppy said:tell him to keep getting bigger ones until it falls through..., then back up one size.
guppy said:tell him to keep getting bigger ones until it falls through..., then back up one size.
My friend and I live in California, so earthquakes are expected. So I hope the building is strong enough for an aquarium. My friend is just worried about it being too heavy. Walls, I understand that a second floor could hold a good amount of weight, but he's concerned that 9 people who weigh 175 lbs aren't going to constantly standing in the same spot for months 24/7.walls said:Well you can look at it this way as well..........
Lets say a 150 fully stocked and loaded might weigh 1500 LBS. And you have 9 friends that all weigh about 175 LBS. Would you be afraid to let your friends all stand in a line along one of the walls in the apartment??
If you are really nervous find out which way the floor joists run and if they run north to south in the room than make sure that the tank runs east to west.
Been a union carpenter for over 13 years and have yet to see a floor that is in good shape "collapse".
rottbo said:depends on the floor and not all concrete floors are the same around here they used to pour 2" concrete over the wood subfloor to help with sound and this just adds more weight to the wood joist, but my old house with 2"x8" joists holds my 110 just fine we will find out how much it will hold when i put a big plywood tank together hmmmmm