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SoSolid said:
Wow I see, but that surely couldn't have weighed too much if it was empty? Maybe 100 kgs?
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just remember that your tank with water is going to be weighing roughly 1/4 of a tonne, there's quite a bit of bounce on my floor from 2 120 litre tanks on different beams which is why i'm getting rid of one!
 
vincent1989 said:
just remember that your tank with water is going to be weighing roughly 1/4 of a tonne, there's quite a bit of bounce on my floor from 2 120 litre tanks on different beams which is why i'm getting rid of one!
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Yeh well I mean I weigh 100 kgs. I currently have a 115 litre tank in my room but I will be taking this down before setting the new tank up. My brother had an upright piano in the same room for the best part of a decade. I reckon this weighed a good 400 kgs.
 
SoSolid said:
Yeh well I mean I weigh 100 kgs. I currently have a 115 litre tank in my room but I will be taking this down before setting the new tank up. My brother had an upright piano in the same room for the best part of a decade. I reckon this weighed a good 400 kgs.
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using a person/people as an indication of load bearing over time is never a good idea, you rarely stand in one spot for years for example. I'm merely giving you some advice, if your floor's had a piano sat on it for some time then it could well be all right. I personally wouldn't risk it without getting someone in to ensure it was going to be safe though.

for reference a small standing piano would still weigh less than a filled 240l aquarium, from experience as well, a friend and I have moved a standing piano via lifting, I couldn't do the same with my tank and stand let alone a bigger one.
 
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vincent1989 said:
using a person/people as an indication of load bearing over time is never a good idea, you rarely stand in one spot for years for example. I'm merely giving you some advice, if your floor's had a piano sat on it for some time then it could well be all right. I personally wouldn't risk it without getting someone in to ensure it was going to be safe though.

for reference a small standing piano would still weigh less than a filled 240l aquarium, from experience as well, a friend and I have moved a standing piano via lifting, I couldn't do the same with my tank and stand let alone a bigger one.
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It wasn't small, it had huge cast iron feet and took about 3 men to get it down the stairs using a rope and pulley.
 
My 4 foot tank weights about 70kg without stand and water. Once full its around the 400kg mark.

I personally would not put anything bigger than 2ft upstairs unless in a concrete building like a block of flats. It is just not worth the risk to me.
 
ShadowMan said:
My 4 foot tank weights about 70kg without stand and water. Once full its around the 400kg mark.

I personally would not put anything bigger than 2ft upstairs unless in a concrete building like a block of flats. It is just not worth the risk to me.
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I would say my tank is about 50 kg empty and the stand is only about 20 kgs, was very easy to lift stand. I reckon all things considered my setup will be about 350 kgs full.
 
Here's mine -

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3' square and 1' high, around 240L.

Bit messy at the moment as I've been away for 6 weeks so its had no maintenance. Tank is designed to be self-sustaining (bar water top-ups) as I go away a lot, so there are lots of shrimp, daphnia and other inverts to act as food for the fish. Plants do the filtering. I add literally nothing to the tank except water lost from evaporation and occaisional dead beech and oak leaves as nutrient input.

Inverts have been breeding away for 2 months now, fish will be going in soon hopefully :)
 
King4aDay said:
Here's mine -

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3' square and 1' high, around 240L.

Bit messy at the moment as I've been away for 6 weeks so its had no maintenance. Tank is designed to be self-sustaining (bar water top-ups) as I go away a lot, so there are lots of shrimp, daphnia and other inverts to act as food for the fish. Plants do the filtering. I add literally nothing to the tank except water lost from evaporation and occaisional dead beech and oak leaves as nutrient input.

Inverts have been breeding away for 2 months now, fish will be going in soon hopefully :)
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I have never had a proper fish tank (other than gold fish) but when i have the spare cash this is exactly the sort of thing i would go for. That is an amazing set up you have there. Any chance of a bit more detail on it and more images? :)
 
For those after more info, here's an edited copy/paste of some stuff I posted on a fishkeeping forum -

me said:
Herein lies my attempt to create a self-sustaining, ultra-low maintenance, sort of riparium tank which I can leave for 6 weeks at a time every few months while I'm on fieldwork without worrying about getting people to do anything other than chuck some more water in occaisionally.

Tank:
90x30x90 (240ish litres) shallow, square, lidless tank with terrible siliconing.
Stand is a pile of old wooden pallets with a blanket thrown over.

Equipment:
70W MH security light about 2' over the tank, 10-14 hours a day.
300W heater
Low turnover koralia powerhead wrapped in filter foam

Substrate:
John Innes compost capped with play sand

Hardscape:
Some rocks
Fired heather collected from the pentlands

Flora (emergent, mainly from homebase!):

Parlour Palm
Prayer Plant
Peace lillies
Other unknown lilly species
Echinodorus cordifolius

Flora (submerged):

E. vesuvious
H. verticillata
Glosso
Bolbitis
M. pteropus 'trident'
M. pteropus 'needle leave'
Juncus repens
Cyperus alternifolius
Micranthemum micranthemoides
Staurogyne sp.


Fauna:
Currently - cherry shrimp, various daphnia and related arthropods and any number of weird slimy things
Planned - more slimey things, and a group of licorice gouramis (Parosphromenus sp.). Possibly Hara jerdoni and some sort of micro rasbora, depending on how the food chain holds up.

Dosing regime: Nothing

Feeding regime: Occaisional handful of beech leaves

Setting up:
So I basically chucked the substrate in, plus some bewildered houseplants from homebase and some very sad looking aquatic plants that had got lost for a week in the snow, filled with water and went away for 3 weeks. Came back expecting some sort of horror show but was rewarded with a mere smattering of green and brown algae on the glass and some hydrocotyle that had actually managed to grow a bit. Hydrocotyle is now automatically my favourite aquarium plant!

Have now replaced frost-bitten plants with an assortment of others, just to see what will do well. Lots of mulm collecting in the middle of the tank, which is looking a bit bare now. Need to give some thought to how to scape that bit. As you can see, the echinodorus is taller than anything else now and is only inches off the light. Might have to start trimming it, which would be a shame. I've straightened it up now, but it was casting a lot of shadow, mainly over the glosso, which is frankly a dead loss. Need to think of something to replace it with, I think.

Added 50ish cherry shrimp and assorted daphnia, both of which are now happily breeding away. The rest of the microfauna arrived on its own in soil/plants etc.
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And a couple more pics from a few weeks ago -

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Not doing any water tests with this tank, I'm confident enough from the plant growth I'm getting that nitrates should be very low now that it's established. 6 otos went in this weekend, and 6 licorice gouramis should be here within a couple of weeks.

Not planning on adding anything else after that until everything has had a couple of months to stabilise.

Also added some crypts to fill in the big empty space in the middle, looking much better now -

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