Biggest tank in a mobile home?

[88GT]

I live in a mobile home. Will the floor support a 60-75 gallon tank? I want ti keep LMB no longer than 12". Also, why is it bad to release them where you got them when they out grow the tank? There are lots of ponds ans streams where I live and the fish seem kinda domesticated anyway.

 

[duke33]

first of all, they may carry a disease or parasite unknown to native fish, after being around tropicals,if so. Second, your right up my alley on the tanks in a mobile home. Unless your floor joists are rotten you should be allright with a 60-75g. Better to crawl underneath and see how the support is designed and go from there. try to place the tank at right angles to the floor joists

 

[duke33]

oh yeah, I have 3-10g, 1-20g, 1-30g, 3-55g, and a 300g in my doublewide.

 

[88GT]

first of all, they may carry a disease or parasite unknown to native fish, after being around tropicals,if so. Second, your right up my alley on the tanks in a mobile home. Unless your floor joists are rotten you should be allright with a 60-75g. Better to crawl underneath and see how the support is designed and go from there. try to place the tank at right angles to the floor joists

Thanks. The home is pretty new, so no worries there. The fish I want to keep wont be mixed with those "cute little store bought tropical boring fish".
I basically want a lake in my living room. What ever you might catch at a lake, but small enough for a tank. I have no interest in tropical fish.

 

[88GT]

oh yeah, I have 3-10g, 1-20g, 1-30g, 3-55g, and a 300g in my doublewide.

300? Thats too big for me at the moment. Gotta start out small I guess

 

[88GT]

I can see this hobby is gonna get expensive.

 

[duke33]

uhhuh

 

[88GT]

uhhuh

Might not seem like much, but we dropped $450 just to get the 30 long going. Might need to sell my truck

 

[Mystix212]

Not many natives you can keep in a 60. Anything that gets beyond 8" I'd rule out.

 

[CTU2fan]

oh yeah, I have 3-10g, 1-20g, 1-30g, 3-55g, and a 300g in my doublewide.

A 300? Nice. Did you have to add any floor support at all, or something under the stand to distribute the weight? I'm thinking of building a 315 and I was figuring on adding some jack posts (floor jacks) under the tank to support my floor.