What size does the above tank equate to in litres/gallons UK?

thanks

Litres 453.6
UK Gallons 99.8



This post has been edited by Gandalf-LoJ: Jan 12 2007, 08:33 AM

119 us gallons

lovely big tank..... get it!

wow, this sounds huge suddenly now..........I dont mean to doubt, but are you sure?

These are 48 inches X 24 inched by 24 inches......

Suddenly seems huge as the LFS said its approx 250 litres but it seemed slightly larger then what I saw previously and they were 215 litres....

Damn..............




I had a feeling you would say that Miss Wiggle......actually had a chuckle in the store thinking this would be your reply........

Yup, sure of it. I used a fert dosage spreadsheet that someone posted on here a while back.

48" = 121.9cm
24" = 61cm

121.9 * 61 * 61 / 1000 = 453.5899

That's the litre calculation. Then a simple conversion to get the gallons.

Thanks Gandalf,

Anychance of emailing me with the spreadhseet??

Sounds very handy to have.......

If not, can you post the link of the sheet?

cheers in advance

ok, found who created it. Mr G is the chap, and there is a link in his signature found at the bottom of his profile here; http://www.fishforums.net/user/19098/http-www-fishforums-net-index-php-showuser-19098/

ha ha ha ha ha

actually i might be wrong about the us gallons, a 6'x2'x2' tank is 125g so 4'x2'x2' isn't gonna be 119 used an aquarium calculator off t'interweb though, must have typed the numbers in wrong

type in aquarium calculator into google you'll find loads of conversion pages to work it out yourself

anyway it's a lovely sized tank, we have one very slightly smaller (it's about 18"w but other dimensions the same) and it's a really nice tank, pride of place in the living room

119.9 US Gallons is what I make it.

It's a big square so the volume does increase a lot.



Oh, and I should add that these are literal calculations. So only accurate if they are brimmed which in practice won't actually happen! Though I'm not sure what the convention is for working out the litreage on tanks anyway.

You can use this site for calculating tank sizes...

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/information/calculate.htm

Thanks again for the quick replies.......

Yeah I thought so the same.......I've opted for 10mm thick and the the LFS Owner mentioned that I could potentially stock close to 50 small Neons and that size fish or else a reduced amount if the fish are larger.

He did mention he had the same size fish tank at home.

Only thing that worried me was that he said it would be alright to put the fish in after around a week......

As much as the price he offered, I think the one week deal is wrong. He made no mention of cycling etc......OMG !!!

Thanks again for the quick replies.......

Yeah I thought so the same.......I've opted for 10mm thick and the the LFS Owner mentioned that I could potentially stock close to 50 small Neons and that size fish or else a reduced amount if the fish are larger.

He did mention he had the same size fish tank at home.

Only thing that worried me was that he said it would be alright to put the fish in after around a week......

As much as the price he offered, I think the one week deal is wrong. He made no mention of cycling etc......OMG !!!

Found this site pretty good in the past too.......

http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/l...-uk-gallons.htm

O'K..so its approx a 454 litre of 100 UK Gallon Tank.

Now as for the Canister Filter, what sort of flow rate do I need to effectively clean the tank per hour??

thanks

Eeasiest way - 48 inch x 24 inch x 24 inch in gallons - type that into google.

48 inch x 24 inch x 24 inch in gallons = 119 US gallons.
48 inch x 24 inch x 24 inch in uk gallons = 99.6613262 Imperial gallons
48 inch x 24 inch x 24 inch in litres = 453.069545 litres

You'll lose around 10-15% of that for decor/substrate etc.

Filter wise it partly depends on your chosen fish stocking. 3-5 times an hour is a good base, if the fish need more or less flow then adjust accordingly.

This post has been edited by Glod: Jan 12 2007, 12:27 PM

Most filters should have a maximum size on their box however it's always better to overfilter. You can always run two smaller filters rather than one huge one. I have two in my tank (the standard internal and an eheim external) this also gives failover so if one dies, it's not a disaster.

i would go for something rated for at least 150 us gallons

I'm thinking of this one.........http://www.aquariumproducts.com.au/prod1479.htm

Anyone care to provide feedback.........

Umm as for failure, is this common?

looks OK, size wise that's what you should be aiming for (as a minimum, you can never overfilter!)

i'm not familiar with the brand though so can't say anything more than that.

It looks very similar to an eheim, but not heard of that one before.

As for failure it's not common but I have had a filter fail so I'm a bit more wary than most!

Great, thanks Miss Wiggle (as usual) and also to Gandalf for your quick and efficient posts......

I will look into these further.........seems to be popular in LFS shops here in Melbourne as I've seen them before.......