180G setup??
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I live in a mobile home and have a 125 gallon tank running parallel to the floor joists. I for one can tell you that this was a recipe for disaster. One of the floor joists under the tank shifted and the whole tank leaned back towards the wall around 2 inches. I was home when it happened and there was water spilling over the back of the tank. miraculously the seams and the glass held. This was 8 months ago and the tank is still up and running. I have since reinforced the floor to the point where a tornado could take the house away but the tank and that part of the floor will still be there. I doubled all floor joists in the area. I put crossbracing with hurricane plates every 12 inches. Then I packed the whole floor with insulation and covered the underside with 2x12 boards. then I bricked up to the floor from the ground and pounded shims in to make it tight.
takinap;3535030; said:
Hi (several months later...),
nope I have an 8'x2'x2' (220 US gallon) on wooden joists on the ground floor in a 100 year old english terraced house. However it is running across where my downstairs used to be divided into two rooms. The joists meet here from either ends of the house resting over two walls, which help support the weight of the floor.
I have not added any reinforcements, the tank has been there two years and the floor is sturdy and no perceivable joist movment, bending, cracks in walls (omg).
However i am thinking of upgrading to an 8'x3'x2.5' which is somthing close to 400 US gals? 2 tonnes in total weight. So yeah I am looking at ways to reinforce although speaking to a registered builder he beleived that the existing support would probably hold (although he would not put it writing). i was thinking about trench struts (accro props are too tall) to vertically support the joists, my floor space is less than a meter.
