Weight before my concrete apartment floor collapse?

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pktlb

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I live in the projects luckily i don't pay for water and electricity, the best place to have a aquarium. I have a 150 gallon and so far doesn't seem to be collapsing. I wanted to upgrade for a while now but really afraid that one day I'll wake up with my tank missing and half my room torn down. I have it exactly at the windows I heard there were more stability and if it is more towards the outside of the building it would be stronger. By calculation my tank is roughly around 1350 lbs with 100lbs of sand and a wet and dry 30 gal filled about 1/4 so weighing around 60 lb with all the misc probably have 1600 pound in that one spot. Not counting me or my bed which is 8 feet away and my friends who.constantly sleep over. Any estimate of how much more I can hold? I want a 500 gal if possible or 300 bigger the better :screwy:
 
If you live in the projects you can definitely do at least 300 gallons. Anything larger and I can't see you getting it into your apartment. The best thing about the projects is it's completely made of concrete so even in the middle of your apartment against a supporting wall and the tank would be easily supported. Plus there's no flex in the floor which more evenly distributes the weight on the tank walls, making tanks less likely to crack. In my apartment I've had a 180, 150, 75, 55, 45, 30,10 and a 50 gallon front opening herp tank in the same room at the same time. My 75 is 15 years old and still going strong, no cracks no leaks. The biggest problem is making sure the tanks are level other than that there's very little problems keeping fish tanks in the projects. Plus concrete insulates fairly well and the apartments are usually warm enough that between that and a glass cover you shouldn't even need heaters. I personally don't use them and I'm keeping a 2 year old Armatus(well approx. I bought him 2 years ago), Trachycorystes Catfish(4 years at least), a Hoplias Curupira and several cichlids including some fry. Oh and I also live on the 5th floor.
 
Nice and you live in ny so that would help. Lol just don't wanna wake up one day having half my room collapsed very true a 500 gal would be too wide
 
Concrete Floor Sag, depending on how old the building is it can have some serious Deflection. As your filling the tank just listen for the sound of Concrete Cracking that is a dead give away that you have exceeded the Live load of the floor. Your Best best is to Station the tank near a tub or column.
 
if the apartment is built with concrete like big buildings then it can hold a lot, depend on how thick is the floor and does it have steel inside! I have friend the live in 5th floor in an apartment that having 2 huge tank (1000 and 1500 gallon I believe)!
 
even you want a bigger tank you have to measure out your door frame before you can upgrade to bigger than a 180 or 220 standard width of 2 ft.. i knew someone had a 220 in his apartment also.. same as you lives in the projects. just make sure the door you're getting the tank though is wide enough first.
 
I live in an apartment in Hong Kong and have to say the floors can hold quite a lot of weight, the only problem is trying to get a large tank into the elevator / up the stairs which is always tricky...
 
Fat Homer said:
I live in an apartment in Hong Kong and have to say the floors can hold quite a lot of weight, the only problem is trying to get a large tank into the elevator / up the stairs which is always tricky...
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my friend had to destroy and rebuilt the door of his Apt to get the tank in! the elevator is not big enough but some Apt have 6ft wide stairs, so just put some more work into it!
 
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