Question On Leveling Fish Tank

[mikersx02]

I just filled up a 75 gallon tank with salt water the other day after getting it close to level.

I used a level and the bubble was just barely touching the inner line.

The water level inside the tank is close to being level.


My question is- how level does it have to be with a tank this size?

Also, I live in a two story house- The tank is on the first floor. When I walk around the tank- I can see that it changes the position of the tank a little. The water will ripple a little.

I looked under the house, and the tank is on one of the support beams...



-----------------------I_______Tank_________I---------------------------------(beam)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(beam)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(beam)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(beam)

Do i need to drain and move this tank so it sits across multiple beams?

 

[mikersx02]

Ill add some more details... that werent too clear last time.

My first floor has a crawl space under it that is supported by beams. The fish tank its on top of the path of beams instead of across it. The tank rocks a little when you walk near it... but not to much. The front of the tank water level is a little higher then in the back. Maybe 1/32- 1/8 of an inch.

I could move it to the other wall, which would let it sit ACROSS the beams- should be more stable... but about a foot of the 4 foot of tank would be in front of a window. I could get a backing for the fishtank to fix most of that problem.


Is this really a concern? (its a salt water tank)

 

[simonbrown403]

its best to position across the beams instead of along them as you have done, that way your spreading the weight across the hole floor instead of 2 beams.

At 75gal US i would imagin thats 315ltr thats around 315kg plus including the rock and cabinet.

You said theres a crawl space under the floor, you could use some 4*2" softwood and some pieces of concret slap to prop under the beams to stop the flap as you walk on then.

 

[mikersx02]

its best to position across the beams instead of along them as you have done, that way your spreading the weight across the hole floor instead of 2 beams.

At 75gal US i would imagin thats 315ltr thats around 325kg plus including the rock and cabinet.

You said theres a crawl spacw under the floor, is this the ground floor, you could use some 4*2" softwood and some pieces of concret slap to prop under the beams to stop the flap as you walk on then.

Yeah- I am already making plans to move this tank to the other wall..

Question... No doubt I am going to drain this thing... I have a 70gal trash can is in my garage that I use as a trash can. Do they make trashbags that wont contaminate the water so I can syphon it out and then syphon it back in after the move? Or should I just ditch the water and make new water? No fish- nothing living in the tank. Still cycling.

 

[simonbrown403]

Question... No doubt I am going to drain this thing... I have a 70gal trash can is in my garage that I use as a trash can. Do they make trashbags that wont contaminate the water so I can syphon it out and then syphon it back in after the move? Or should I just ditch the water and make new water? No fish- nothing living in the tank. Still cycling.

Umm! may be not, borrow as many buckets as you can, old tanks and what not, i bought some 5gal buckes from willkinsons for about £7 each, save as much as you can and call the rest a sort of water change.

 

[Durbkat]

Did you use table salt or pet store marine salt?

 

[mikersx02]

Did you use table salt or pet store marine salt?

Not to be rude, but why would I spend 600 dollars + on all this equipment and use table salt? Are people on this board that lacking in the research department?


My father has told me that I can "shore up" the floor underneath the house. Basically he said that I could put down 3 or 4 cinder blocks in the crawlspace under under the house (under where the fishtank would be) and cut wood beams to fit between the cinder block and the house beams. Then use shims to wedge up and support the fish tank. I am also going to make a couple of cross brases eventually and cross brase under and around the fish tank under the house.

Think that will hold?

 

[Durbkat]

Well I didn't know ,for all I knew you could have been someone that saw some salt water fish and wanted some. So my bad. )

 

[Sean_Buckley]

We have had people on here who bought a clownfish, put it in a 10 gallon, dumped some table salt in, no live rock, etc, then come back and be grouching about the LFS selling sick fish because it died. I'm sure Durbkat didn't mean to be rude, I mean, it has happened.
Sean

 

[mikersx02]

We have had people on here who bought a clownfish, put it in a 10 gallon, dumped some table salt in, no live rock, etc, then come back and be grouching about the LFS selling sick fish because it died. I'm sure Durbkat didn't mean to be rude, I mean, it has happened.
Sean

People actually do that? I read the sticky thread in the marine section "My own nimmo". I thought it was being sarcastic... maybe not

 

[Durbkat]

Yeah they do, their kid would watch finding nemo the movie and would say I want a nemo, then they just put some table salt and some water in a tank and get a clown fish.

 

[OMA]

Hi ther, i know it's a little off topic but while you deffinately couldn't use table salt, why wouldn't you be able to use rock salt or sea salt instead of paying for marine salt, what's the difference?