For you folks with multiple big tanks...

nursie

nursie

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Maybe I am unnecesarily concerned, but I just wanted to run this past some folks that may know. I am looking at putting 2 tanks into the corner of my family room in an L shape. One would be the 55 gal I have. which is no problem, but the other will probably be 110 to 120 gallons. Any comments? I would have it so that the larger one would cross the floor beams and be next to the main flor joist support, but that would leave the 55 gal vertically positioned along 1 floor joist.
 
Is this corner an outside corner? Meaning, do the adjoining floor joists conect into a sill/end plate that is supported or is it an interior wall and the floor joist don't have any support?
If there is support, I would be comfortable with it (provided there isn't any decay). Not sure of the tank dimensions you're looking at, but a 110 xhigh is a tall 90gal (too tall imo), and unless you're going for the depth (front to back) on the 120, why not go 125, it's longer and would spread the weight out a little more. Don't you hate it when you have in your mind what you want and others tell you to get something else?! :rant: Just trying to help ;)
 
Nursie, have you found a tank yet? I've been preaching ebay since the good deal I found a couple of months ago: a 180 gallon with practically everything I needed for 300 :dance2: Just wanted to throw that out there.
 
Beviking...where I'm putting the tank is in the interior corner of an addition we added to the house about 10 years ago. One wall is right over the main floor support beam which has posts underneath it. I'm not so much worried about that one, I'll put the bigger tank on that wall. the wall i'll put the 55 on is where the addition attaches to the house. The floor joists run horizontal to this wall, so the tank would be sitting on the one joist. I guess I need to go in the basement with a flashlight and look. The contactor was a twit. WHen you step into this room the floor bounces here. The 10 gal I have now in this location wiggles when you walk near it.

As to the size of the tank, Holly..these 2 walls are in about a 5' L in either direction, so I need to get something that will "fit" and not obstruct a doorway. I'm better off having a wider tank that a longer or taller, so what I'm looking at is 48 long..and then go from there. Much taller tho and it will be harder to clean.
And I've been out on Ebay looking. There is a 70-or 75 not far from me, not sure if that is big enough for the clown loaches. I would like to get more. There is an even larger one I'd love to have..oh yes I do love my Ebay! I've gotten plants there...clothes, musical instruments, boxer dog collectables...my husband even found a picure of his great grandfather in civil war uniform.
 
"The contactor was a twit. WHen you step into this room the floor bounces here. The 10 gal I have now in this location wiggles when you walk near it."

Then I would say no. But look down there, maybe there's an easy way to sure it up. Maybe the joist was/is warped and the subfloor pulled away and that's why its bouncey. Just gotta :look:
 
You confirmed my suspicions. My husband said this was a good room to have a big tank in becasue the basement ceiling is infinished an it could be worked on.
 
Wow, that is some loach setup. Not all the pics in your loach page would load via my doggy 56k dialup..but it looks like all loaches to me. I think they are so neat. I am planning to get another tank...after fixing the floor..and have wondered if the water bridges would be too small for the loaches. Apparently not, if yours use them. I want to put discus int he 55 tho, and think the loaches may be too boisterous if I give them access to go over.
 
I went to the basement ans looked and I'm in good shape I thing. The bounciness is due to subfloor issues, not the actual beams and joists themselves. The main beam for the addition runs along the wall I want to put the bigger tank on, and the joists in that area happen to be a little closer than spec because they started spacing at the outer edge of the addition, and at the wall near the house there is less space between the last 2 joists, and the last one is screwed to the side of what used to be the exterior of the house. So the 55 will sit lengthwise on 2 joists instead of just 1, and the bigger tank...hopefully 100 to 125 will sit near the main beam running down the middle of the addition..which has posts under it, and the joists are closer there too. this room was made for tanks!! We have a fireplace which has a hearth, and they put extra joists under that, and ran they across the room.
 
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