Hello! need advice.......

[Clownez]

Hello, I'm new in here. I have a 26 (UK) gallon tank I have just setup in my new house after moving. However, the people who made this house have in their wisdom made the floorboards all bouncy, so everytime I walk past the Aquarium, it makes the cabinet shake every so slightly, making the water ripple. If I walk really heavily past it, I can actually see the cabinet moving I'm scared! how much can aquarium water be rippled and moved around without it being a problem?

Fanks

 

[Alien Anna]

I'd get a builder in if I were you - your floor may need bracing. It's not necessarily as big or scary a job as it sounds (builders can buy purpose made struts for such a job) but if you don't do it, you may have a disaster on your hands.

I hate moving. Remind me not to do it again.

 

[Clownez]

Thanks Alien Anna!

Blimey! Well the house is rented, so I'm not allowed to build anything!

When I say that the cabinet moves, I can see it shuddering, not actually moving across the floor.

Maybe I'll have to look at moving the aquarium to a different part of the house

 

[Alien Anna]

Thanks Alien Anna!

Blimey! Well the house is rented, so I'm not allowed to build anything!

I also hate renting. Never mind. If you move the tank, try putting a sheet of ply under it to distribute the weight a little more evenly. Also, try to work out where the joists that support the floor are - they will be much more stable than the intervening spaces covered in floor-boards. You can tell this by knocking on the floor - the hollow sounding bits are the spaces, the duller sounds should be joists. Try to get your sheet of ply large enough to spread from one joist to another - kind of like flooring an attic. If you have a good hardware shop near you, you could ask advice - that's where I got all this info from!

 

[Ob1]

It will not be long before we have our fish in perfect conditions