75 on second story?

[playa0069u]

ta i didnt think 5 pounds per gallon sounded right.

 

[Jfoster33702]

8.5ish for salt - depending on what body of water you are in....or how you mix your brew

 

[CMcNeil]

even if the tank weight was 1000 lbs it would be fine.you have a footprint of 18"x 48" which equals 6 square feet.1000lbs divided by 6 is only like 165 lbs/square foot.how much do you weight and look at the size of your feet.i weight 180 and my feet are smaller than one square foot(when toghether)this means that you exert the same if not more force on the floor just standing around.

 

[A.T.DAWG]

that is true i think it will be fine and i should be setting it up before i move, thx for everyones help, im sure i will have alot more questions for everyone.

 

[Acolin]

Without pulling up the carpet (easy enough) try getting down on your hands and knees, rap your knuckles along the floor every foot of the width where the tank is to be located. You will hear the difference in sound as the rapping moves over the joists and the hollow space below. Note where you think the joists are located in the first row. Next, move over a foot or so, and then rap along a second row. If you hear or feel any solid sounds or rapping, that is where the floor joists run.

Don’t ask about the tank, if it is NOT in the lease, it is OK. Besides waterbeds, in my experience, pop far more often than tanks leak. (Fish, BTW, are NOT counted as pets either.)

Nonetheless, you can still get some 1x6s or 2x2s to distribute the weight, especially if it is NOT a wood stand. A wood stand does a very good job of distributing the weight over a floor. Run the boards perpendicular to the joists to create a tank stand pad.

I always put a $1 plastic “paint drop cloth” sheet under all my tanks â€"œ which your landlord should love to see. I cut the sheet back to the edge of the stand after I am done setting up, rearranging and stocking the tank.

A Glass gets brittle with age. I use a Styrofoam pad between the tank and the stand to even out the weight of the tank and help prevent stressing the glass. Six foam sheets are available in the insulation dept at Home Depot for $5.

 

[A.T.DAWG]

i m using a wood stand so that is good, thx for the styrofoam and drop cloth idea i will definitely use those but how thick should the styrofoam be?

 

[Acolin]

thin enough so you don't see it, the idea works if the glass tank sits on un-even wood, may not make much difference with the edge of the glass tank sitting on the wood, but I always like it (unless you want to see the bottom of the tank from the underside)

 

[A.T.DAWG]

cool thx