How many gals is my tank?

[jarlayari]

Hi Guys.

Prolly not the right way to start fish keeping but I bought a complete setup inc fish from a friend.

I have the tank dimensions but have no clue to the gallonage (new word invention warning)

41" Accross
15" Deep
18" High

Is there a way of working this out.

Regards

Andi

 

[The-Raven]

looks like a 55

 

[jarlayari]

Am I right in assuming (have read this site a lot over the past week or so) that we use the American 3.5ltr gallon in fish keeping?

Andi

 

[sinistral]

I usually do length x height x width / 231 cubic inches per gallon = gallons (US).

Doing that calculation for your tank gives me ~48 gallons (US).

Since 1 US Gallon = 0.832 UK (Imperial) Gallons,

I calculate your tank is about 40 UK Gallons. That's not a tank that I'm familiar with, but maybe they're more common in the UK. HTH~

 

[jarlayari]

Hi,

So is it 1" of adult fish per US or Imperial Gallon? and do tetras count per inch or 2 per inch?

Dont want to overstock

Andi

 

[pica_nuttalli]

1" per US. Tetras count for just their body-length (nice thin fish.)

 

[Welsh_Woman]

if you want to work out your tank in litres then this is how you do it...WxLxH divide by 1000 and then you have your answer
also check this out

Tank calculater

 

[daza]

using my volume calculator (link in my sig) I get about the same as mentioned above:

Surface area: 615sq.inches
Tank volume: 181.44 litres 47.9 gal(US) 39.92 gal(imp/UK)

excluding substrate, glass thickness, fill-level, etc.

 

[The-Wolf]

this IMHO is the best calculator out there
http/www.danios.0catch.com/danio/Tankmaster.html