Fish Tank Wood Floors

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Fish tank wood floors. Thread starter anthonysharpe start date mar 26 2014. Can my floor support a 150 gallon fish tank. Just to be safe. Recently my house was redone with laminate flooring and i was wondering if a 60 gallon 500.

Had new hardwood floors installed last week and now i am ready to put my tank back in place. Is a 60 gallon tank safe for laminate wood flooring. Once the sub floor has dried i am going to put an engineered wood floor down i want to put a fish tank with a 6ft x 31in foot print on it. I splash water on the floor a lot when i move decor around or do a water change.

If you have a bending failure in your floor joists then the wood will pull apart at the bottom of the joist near the mid span of the joist. I am know i am bit messy so really fish tank and hardwood floor in same area a bad idea but that they way it goes. On top of this is the weight of the tank very heavy cabinet filters etc plus in the tank is some gravel and. I would personally remove the whole section of floorboards under the tank and replace as clive proposed with a section of marine plywood this is extremely.

For the most part this is of little concern unless it permanently puts a dent into your beautiful hardwood floors. The same basic principles would apply to a 150 gallon as would apply to a 125 gallon with considerations about placement and identifying load bearing structures being important to the decision making process. 75 gallon aga with lifereef compact refugium 2 sump 2 t5 ho w individual reflector and 2 175 watt mh canopy retrofit kit geo 612 calcium reactor with masterflex and litermeter 3 water exchange system. Perhaps you can build some type of low profile pedestal to rest the aquarium on so it is not directly on the hardwood floor.

First the weight of your aquarium bears on the subfloor. 1 gallon weighs 10lbs so the weight of the water will be approx 820kg. Freshwater aquarium fish forum. The tank is 2 ft deep.

Some place in my room had some kind of leak a few years ago from the heater not a fish tank heater and some a few of the floorboards got loose. Hardwood floor and fish tank. From my experience it doesn t cause a problem if it dries.