How large of a tank can i get upstairs

[Ryan_R]

What if i only fill the tank up half way?

I've thought about this myself.... but I know myself too well. I'd start filling it only half way for a while. Then the tank would get a little more filled.... then a little more.... but within a year, I guarantee that I'd be filling that tank to the brim.

As for the big tank, I really think the answer is going to be a solid "no". It's a bad idea to just do it without knowing how the building was built, and to get that knowledge, you'll probably have to go through the landlord.... who'll almost definitely shoot you right down.

-Ryan

 

[Steveo1987]

My mate is an engineer and i asked him a similar question before and he told me that here in Ireland, upstairs levels can safely hold roughly 4 16 stone guys on 1m2 area?! That would be design spec and i dont think that would ever quite happen ha? That equates to roughly 408kg per metre squared?! As said before you'd need to know what your home is made of and what your load bearing capacity is before id attempt it?!

A 210 gallon = roughly 955 litres

So your tank would weigh in the region of:

Tank = 150kg (guess)
Stand = 80kg (guess again)
Water = 955kg
Stones and other decorations = 100kg+

Total = 1285kg+

You standing beside it? Other furniture in your room? It may be safe if it was super long! Try it and let us know how you get on?!

 

[12 Volt Man]

but those four guys would have to stand in the same spot and not move for 15 years

then you could tell if the floor was sagging and or damaged

 

[timeneverfreezes]

Some of you guys are forgetting that when adding decorations, stones, etc. there is an equal volume of water displaced. So its not strictly 1000lbs of water + 200lbs of stones.

I have a 120g and a 75g that I am putting upstairs in a single room. I am pretty nervous about it but I realize that the tanks wont just shear right through the floor. Like a poster above said, first the joints will start to sag and the tank begin to lean. So I think that if I check the level every month and make sure everything is okay I can anticipate anything before it happens.

 

[12 Volt Man]

Some of you guys are forgetting that when adding decorations, stones, etc. there is an equal volume of water displaced. So its not strictly 1000lbs of water + 200lbs of stones.

agreed.

when I estimated the weight of my 150 for example, I have 150 pounds of gravel that probably displaces 15 gallons of water..assuming a 2 inch even depth if I flattened all the gravel out..

 

[malawi mayhem]

bump....

What was that noise...?

It was your floor being slowly destroyed...

mm

 

[Steveo1987]

Some of you guys are forgetting that when adding decorations, stones, etc. there is an equal volume of water displaced. So its not strictly 1000lbs of water + 200lbs of stones.

I have a 120g and a 75g that I am putting upstairs in a single room. I am pretty nervous about it but I realize that the tanks wont just shear right through the floor. Like a poster above said, first the joints will start to sag and the tank begin to lean. So I think that if I check the level every month and make sure everything is okay I can anticipate anything before it happens.

Yeah forgot about that but either way its gona be a very heavy load? You'd really wana know whether or not the floor can actually hold the weight before you go ahead with it?! Saying all that imo i tink it would hold it but id research it in more detail just to make sure!!