Okay, so I just got done re-leveling my 55g after moving it to put in another 55g beside it. The problem is that they're in a drop-down living room that was originally a "floating floor" carport. I'm not positive what that means, but I think it's a proprietary word my landlord made up to excuse his sorry workmanship and lack of desire to level out the old concrete before laying tile on top of it.
At any rate, to give you an idea of what this eventually meant to me, one 48" long tank had to have one end raised by over 3/4" and almost 1/8" front to back to level it. The other one had to be raised about 1/2" on one side and almost 1/2" front to back. Worse, the first 55g still had everything in the tank (fish, rocks, stuff in the stand) - the only thing I removed was the water down to the height of the tallest fish. It probably still weighed at least 200 lbs.
So, here I am at 2AM and thinking about what a pain that was, and I had an idea. Has anyone ever created a sand table on top of their fish tank stand to put the tank down into? With 1" deep sand in the table, you could kinda shake/vibrate your tank down into the sand with a level on top. As long as you did with slowly, with fairly small vibrations, I'm betting you would end up with completely level sand putting even pressure on every part of your tank.
I did a search out on Google and pulled up nada. So, what do you think? Would this work? Has anyone ever tried it?
At any rate, to give you an idea of what this eventually meant to me, one 48" long tank had to have one end raised by over 3/4" and almost 1/8" front to back to level it. The other one had to be raised about 1/2" on one side and almost 1/2" front to back. Worse, the first 55g still had everything in the tank (fish, rocks, stuff in the stand) - the only thing I removed was the water down to the height of the tallest fish. It probably still weighed at least 200 lbs.
So, here I am at 2AM and thinking about what a pain that was, and I had an idea. Has anyone ever created a sand table on top of their fish tank stand to put the tank down into? With 1" deep sand in the table, you could kinda shake/vibrate your tank down into the sand with a level on top. As long as you did with slowly, with fairly small vibrations, I'm betting you would end up with completely level sand putting even pressure on every part of your tank.
I did a search out on Google and pulled up nada. So, what do you think? Would this work? Has anyone ever tried it?
Use a compass or pencil on a block of wood that is slightly smaller than the board you are tracing onto. Then trace the patern of the floor onto the soon to be shim. When you cut the board, the rises and falls of the floor will be transfered to the wood shim.