Hello,
So I've upgraded my personal "aquarium" from a one bedroom condo, to a 5 bedroom house (+ additional rooms that are not bedrooms).
I've always knew my tank is too small and my partner encouraged me with ideas of crazy stuff like, integrating a fishtank in the wall, etc.
While what I want is something much more tame, to me, size matters! So I wanna upgrade from 70 gal to like 140 - 200gal.
My questions are
1. at which point you should be concerned with the weight of the thing? There's a bedroom underneath the tank and while I know it's not going to just fall out overnight, during house hunting, I saw a poorly installed kitchen isle, that was making the floor sink and was deemed dangerous by the inspector. I don't want to randomly downsize because the fishtank is making the structure crash...
The 200gal is much larger than that kitchen isle and contains water and not granite (less pressure per square cm/inch/whatever),however... how do you know, which weight the structure will support safely?
2. Where do you order fishtanks? Looking to get it delivered to the actual place where it sits in the house (one set of stairs).
Note: the fishtank will be against the "exteriour" wall, which probably means, it's a supporting wall... but I'm just a blondie and no construction dude...
So I've upgraded my personal "aquarium" from a one bedroom condo, to a 5 bedroom house (+ additional rooms that are not bedrooms).
I've always knew my tank is too small and my partner encouraged me with ideas of crazy stuff like, integrating a fishtank in the wall, etc.
While what I want is something much more tame, to me, size matters! So I wanna upgrade from 70 gal to like 140 - 200gal.
My questions are
1. at which point you should be concerned with the weight of the thing? There's a bedroom underneath the tank and while I know it's not going to just fall out overnight, during house hunting, I saw a poorly installed kitchen isle, that was making the floor sink and was deemed dangerous by the inspector. I don't want to randomly downsize because the fishtank is making the structure crash...
The 200gal is much larger than that kitchen isle and contains water and not granite (less pressure per square cm/inch/whatever),however... how do you know, which weight the structure will support safely?
2. Where do you order fishtanks? Looking to get it delivered to the actual place where it sits in the house (one set of stairs).
Note: the fishtank will be against the "exteriour" wall, which probably means, it's a supporting wall... but I'm just a blondie and no construction dude...