To Uaru or not to Uaru

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If you can swing it by your parents and then seing it by the landlord and manage to get the tank to not leak the I’d find out which way the joists (I think that’s it?) run and go with it. If they run vertically then position the tank to go horizontally over the joists so the weight is spread over more joists.
 
Also getting a stand that is longer than the tank helps spread the weight out even further, heres my double 55 gallon and you can see I have a board on the floor that is 2 feet wider than the length of the tank.
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fishhead0103666 said:
If you can swing it by your parents and then seing it by the landlord and manage to get the tank to not leak the I’d find out which way the joists (I think that’s it?) run and go with it. If they run vertically then position the tank to go horizontally over the joists so the weight is spread over more joists.
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That's a neat trick, hmmm wdym by joists and the position?
 
Under the carpet or hardwood floors you have there are boards like this
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The boards run one way I believe.

I would go up under our house to get you a good picture but it’s a tight squeeze for me and there are too many spiders for my liming.
 
If you have an empty tank I really recommend getting the Uaru. I've had them for 3 times and I can't recommend them enough! BTW where are you from if you don't mind?
 
Like others have said you need to ask the management first. My last apt only allowed 55gal tank or smaller. You also had to have renters insurance before youj set it up.

Beings you are on the fifth floor I am leaning that it a concrete construction building not a wood frame. But if it is, like mentioned earlier you want the tank to run across several joist, not along one or two. In the pic green is good, red is bad.20181120_110945.png
Water is 8lbs a gallon, so in a 125gal that's 1000lbs of water weight alone.

When you go across many joist you spread the weight out more so 4, 5, maybe 6 joist are holding up the weight. Dividing the weight up between them so each one only holds a fraction of the tanks weight. When you place a tank along the joist only 1 maybe 2 will be holding all the weight.
 
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