Build stand directly off block wall???

[stang9gt]

I am going to put my 180g cichlid aquarium on the first floor of my house (above the basement) and all the exterior walls of the house are made of 10" thick blocks. Now if I made my own stand, and attached the 6' long back top plate, and bottom plate directly to the block wall with about 10 tapcons in each board, wouldn't that take a good bit of the weight off the floor? The shear strength is somewhere over 800lbs per 1/4 tapcon, and over 1000lbs pullout strength. Then build a normal 2x6 stand out from that with hangers, etc.\

I know about spanning as many joists as possible etc...

 

[stang9gt]

Modified this a little. I already have a stand with my tank, so I am thinking about (building a platform) mounting a 2x6 to my exterior wall down at the floor. Then a 2x6 where the front of the tank will be, and 2x4's with joist hangers from front to back. This would support the entire stand and basically put half the weight on the 4 floor joists I would be spanning 2' out from the wall, and half of the weight on the exterior wall, which goes the entire way down to the foundation. So now my 180g tank, is only putting the weight of a 90g tank, on the floor itself. It would raise my tank up 5 1/2" but that isn't a big deal.

 

[deeda]

I don't understand why you are going to all this trouble to mount a portion of the stand to the wall. What is your reason for this?