I'd like to buy a 240 gallon tank for my apartment but I'm not sure if the floor will support it. I live on the 2nd floor so I'm not sure if it will hold. Is there a way to calculate how much weight my floor will hold, or is there someone I can hire to get this check checked out?
Will my apartment hold a 200+ gallon tank?
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get in touch with the building super an or the building owner. they may know an or may not want a fish tank in the building, just think the cost if a catastrophy does happen not to mention the liability.
usally on a wood substructure you should have it checked for intergrity and like said already check your lease it may stated no fish tanks but ask your super some can be cool
it funny how i see this posts all the time and answer the same way the reason is because i lived in a apartment in a house where the hydro was included ,well guess what breeding retiles and being a fish nut caused the hydro bill to go beyond 300.00 bi-monthly super freaked and gave me an eviction notice real fast lol .
now i live in a concrete high rise hydro included i'm waiting for cops to come to the door with drug dogs now lol
didnt mean to derail your thread just giving you a heads up when renting be carefull.
it funny how i see this posts all the time and answer the same way the reason is because i lived in a apartment in a house where the hydro was included ,well guess what breeding retiles and being a fish nut caused the hydro bill to go beyond 300.00 bi-monthly super freaked and gave me an eviction notice real fast lol .
now i live in a concrete high rise hydro included i'm waiting for cops to come to the door with drug dogs now lol
didnt mean to derail your thread just giving you a heads up when renting be carefull.
1000 litres (approx 220g) is 1 metric tonne. Add to that the weight of glass and frame - check the floor VERY CAREFULLY!
220g is a lot of water to end up downstairs.
220g is a lot of water to end up downstairs.
when i moved into the my apartment, my landlord originally put me on third floor, i told her straight up that i have a 125 gallon tank (even though lease says 10 gallon or less in the apartments) and she was cool about me having that. Then i told her unless she wants a tank falling through the floors that she better find me a first floor. And she did, now i have concrete floors!!!!!!!!!!!KJP said:
am fairly new to fish keeping so don't know about galons, but your apartment has a bath doesn't it lol, base it on the size and weight of that