How Level Are Your Fish Tanks?

[themissingelf]

Mine is dead level in all directions - made sure it was. Remember to shim under the cabinet rather than under the tank.

 

[Yetti]

No house or floor is completely leveled so it is understandable to have the water-level a little uneven in an aquarium.

 

[blackbat]

phew! thats okay then thought I was gonna have to move heehee

 

[Daz CPFC]

My tank is around 2/3 mm out and slants back towards the wall. All those dodgy builders lol.

 

[blackbat]

think the builder that built my house drank the spirit out of his spirit level lol

 

[jgray152]

My 55 gallon leaned toward the left about 1". started affecting the partical board stand too after a few months. One night I was hearing cracking noises from behind the stand.

Next day I drained the tank half way and lifted one side up while I had someone put some wood under the stand.

My 30 is the same way. Guess thats what you get for living in a barn.

 

[Teelie]

I used a leveler and all my tanks are pretty level. I don't know what millimeter they're off but they're well within safety parameters. I always make sure before and after adding water that they're as balanced as possible.

 

[Mako Man111]

Do you think with an Oceanic Tank, I have a little more leway? It should for the price

 

[Lord Zogat]

Both my bridged Tanks are level, I made sure before the water went in. I used spacers under the stands to balance them.

 

[Arfie]

All mine are out too the 4 foot one is about 5mm out, so not bad at all.

I do intend to level it up, not because I'm worried about the structural integrity, just because I don't want to see the waterline. I might even do it this weekend .

Arfie

 

[Miss Wiggle]

they're all a little bit wonky, but my house is majorly uneven so it's inevitable

they've all got polystyrene under them to even things out, hopefully that's enough!

 

[jollysue]

When I put in the 125 usg, the lfs man was very careful about it all. I was trying to put the fory glass tank half on carpet and hlf on the tile. He gently redirected me. I cracked the 100 usg just trying to force a filter in. I is ok, but I understand that it is an important issue. My 60 usg on the porch with the goldie slants forward with the porch drain slant. This thread has me thinking about shimming it. It is at least an inch drop from back to front--maybe more.

If you can do something to level the tank, I think it would be wise.

 

[jgray152]

I just noticed from proping up one side of the fish tank stand on my 55 gallon. Now the entire stand is bowing in the middle so ONLY the left and right sides of the tank are being supported. The Entire middle of the tank is not. I need to find a way to fix this....

 

[jollysue]

Oops!

 

[starrynightxxi]

my tanks are perfectly level, my floor, not so much Nothing to be done, i suppose, it's an old house.