Mythbusters and the Aquarium Hobby

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Everybody wonders how big of a tank they can put on their floor.

Let's see if we can grab the Mythbusters attention. They get their ideas from the forums on their site.

Please take a moment to follow this link and post if you would like to see this tackled on their show.

http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6761919888/m/6561951839


You know they will go bigger and bigger until the floor crashes. :D
 
thing is its not a myth at all.you just want to see the results of how big of a tank it would take to break the floor.
 
Make up a myth, like if you put a really big tank on the thrid story falling all the way to the basement of the building. Im sure people could make up better ones
 
beex215;1496601; said:
thing is its not a myth at all.you just want to see the results of how big of a tank it would take to break the floor.
Click to expand...

:naughty:
 
Does anyone actually know of it happening though? I mean of course if it's heavy enough the floor will go, especially if the wood is old or maybe damaged...but have you ever heard/read of it actually occurring?

I was filling my new tank last night and I was a tad nervous honestly...
 
my parents wouldnt let me put my 240 on the second floor because they said it would go through the floor so its currently in the basement
 
thats sounds like a good myth to me...

I constantly hear of people saying, no big tanks on the 2nd floor...blah, blah,,,so apparently there is a belief that it will cause a failure.....I have yet to hear or see someone actually show a failure. I mean, of something like a 240 or 300 gallon tank. Nothing.....I had a 55, 125 and 29 up stairs, two in my living room, NOTHING, no problems. Im thinking about saying F it and getting something that is 7 feet long by 2 deep......like a 225 or something
 
I once heard that a guy went to a public zoo that was remodeling and bought a 1000 gallon turtle tank. He then loaded it in the elevator and placed it in his 4th floor apartment. He hooked a piece of tubing up to his sink and began to fill it. As he gazed at the magnitude of the new home for his betta he noticed there was a darn penny sitting right at the bottom of the otherwise clean and empty tank. Being a man who suffered from OCD he could not let it be. He tried to fish it out with a piece of wire but soon realized that there was no way, short of climbing in a picking it up himself, that he could ever get it out. So he striped down to nothing grabbed
a step ladder and climbed in. By this time the tank was almost full. Right as he reached down to grab the penny the floor boards gave way and the tank plummeted through the ceiling of the 3rd floor. Then right through the 2rd and the first. When he and the tank reached the basements concrete floor the tank instantly shattered into thousands of pieces that were then washed away by the rushing water into the sump of the building. The apartment complex was brand new and he was the first to move in so no one witnessed the event. When someone did eventually report the incident. All the police found was a naked man laying on the concrete underneath 4 floors of destruction clutching a penny.





They want a myth not a question
 
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