Whats the craziest risk you've taken in fishkeeping? Heres mine...lol
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I was reading that article, and i was think...huh a lot of new houses place their floor joists 24 inches apart now.... that changes everything...
there is no " no cycling "...all tanks cycle, sooner or later.. He must mean he did not wait to introduce fish ( lots of us do it on a daily basis..I know I do )
Wow, that's a really great article!
Really informative, but I'm not sure I feel any better about our 125g on the first floor of our 1880s house - prob is, there's an 82 year old woman living in the basement apartment beneath us (tank is over her living room).
The tank is in the corner of the house, but the floor still creaks and the tank still bounces when the dogs play too hard . . .
Really informative, but I'm not sure I feel any better about our 125g on the first floor of our 1880s house - prob is, there's an 82 year old woman living in the basement apartment beneath us (tank is over her living room).
The tank is in the corner of the house, but the floor still creaks and the tank still bounces when the dogs play too hard . . .
frnchjeep;1206178; said:Thats true, but it isn't puncture pressure that you need to wory about. A 150 lb. woman (or man) in high heels is roughly 300 psi on the heel. You would never worry about her going through the floor. What you need to wory about is the total weight of the tank sheering the joists off at the wall. The building code is 40 psf. 40 psf is the minimum a residential floor can handle if the weight is evenly spread out. A high pressure spot on the floor is ok because the total weight on the floor is most likely far less than the rating (unless you have a room full of tanks).
This will help you: http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/aquarium_weight.php
My craziest risk was letting my wife set up the Christmas tree next to the tank one year. She swore it would be ok and there is only a really small opening in the back for the HOB filter.
It was great until she threw a ball for the dog. The ball hit a glass bulb on the tree which shattered. Amazingly almost the entire shattered bulb fit in the small opening on the back of the tank. The glass looked so pretty floating down to the bottom that all of the fish just had to see what was happening.
None of the fish died, and I supposed they really did need several large WC's.
For the record, my initial concern was incorrect. No needles fell off on the tree into the tank.
It was great until she threw a ball for the dog. The ball hit a glass bulb on the tree which shattered. Amazingly almost the entire shattered bulb fit in the small opening on the back of the tank. The glass looked so pretty floating down to the bottom that all of the fish just had to see what was happening.
None of the fish died, and I supposed they really did need several large WC's.
For the record, my initial concern was incorrect. No needles fell off on the tree into the tank.
