help me Prepare for monster status

[tcarswell]

I would just mention the option to grind your current concrete down flat. Sounds like you'll be making a mess no matter what, this wouldn't require anything new.

Ehh grinding in a finished room or adding new slab the size of the tank thats one to ponder

 

[Pharaoh]

Im gonna pour a new slab got that decided its gotta be level I dont want to have to shim a damn thing I work in heavy industrial construction I can always put it back the way it was.

Fair enough.

 

[spiff]

Jack hammering out the original concrete will probably make just as much of a mess as just grinding the current surface flat.

Also, having a new slab exactly the size of the tank might not be as stable as your current floor. If you pour a new slab, basically in a socket of the current floor, it might not settle evenly anyway. Your current floor will destribute the weight a bit. A poured slab the size on the tank will concentrate that weight and the ground below might settle more in response.

 

[deeda]

Why not just use a floor leveling product? It comes as a powder, you just need to mix water in to get a slurry. It is self leveling and very easy to use.

 

[spiff]

Why not just use a floor leveling product? It comes as a powder, you just need to mix water in to get a slurry. It is self leveling and very easy to use.

Those products tend to leave thin layers, which aren't likely to with stand the weight before cracking apart.

 

[koop171]

I would just pour another layer of concrete like you said. it doesn't even have to be that thick as long as it's tied into your current flooring well. And I'll give concrete floors a little extra credit b/c my big tank (585 gallons and glass) is sitting on my basement floor and without drilling into it I'm just going to assume that it's 4" thick.

 

[tcarswell]

I would just pour another layer of concrete like you said. it doesn't even have to be that thick as long as it's tied into your current flooring well. And I'll give concrete floors a little extra credit b/c my big tank (585 gallons and glass) is sitting on my basement floor and without drilling into it I'm just going to assume that it's 4" thick.

Yup thats what I am going with Getting tank prices now zenzo hooked me up with a great acrylic dealer this will be like my 30th tank and first acrylic if I go that route

 

[arherp]

Acryllics scratch really easily...

 

[tcarswell]

Acryllics scratch really easily...

choices maybe a starfire then

 

[Idealconcepts]

Acryllics scratch really easily...

Yes it does. But it is alot lighter than glass especially when you start looking at tanks larger than 240gals. OP I think is looking at a +500gal, that is going to be a b*tch to move. I help a guy, and about 5 others, move a 8x3x3 glass tank (with a plywood sealed bottom).

Star fire is, from my understanding expensive, again at that size I don't think it will be cheap.