Leveling A Tank

[tenke56]

This is true. I totally forgot about taking water from my main tank and putting it in the temp tank. I guess that when I start building a custom stand for my other 2 aquariums, I will look at bracing my 55g stand more. Thanks for the tips.

 

[rabbut]

No problem

Just make sure that filter keeps running the whole time and you should be fine

 

[waterdrop]

For leveling the stand: If you have a large base plate on the floor or if the legs are large pieces of wood you might consider the following (sorry if I'm way off base here!): In the big hardware stores you can walk through the section where they have vinyl floor tiles and other flooring type things -- I found some long thin vinyl strips where you pull off the backing and they have glue - they are meant for fake floors or baseplates along walls or something (these were fake wood on the showing side).. anyway, the important part was that they are quite thin and the vinyl doesn't compress much and they cut with scissors or a box knife. So you leave the paper on and cut them to fit the -bottom- of the left feet of your stand or the bottom of the left side or whatever. You can measure their thickness and plan how many stacked will offset your imbalance. Finally you just pull the paper off, stick them upside down to the bottom of your stand and then use your level to check the stand after you've turned it back over.

Anyway, just a thought in case it might happen to be any help,

~~waterdrop~~

 

[T1KARMANN]

just leave at alone

if the water line is covered by the hood then you cant see it whats the big

the tank will be fine their is no problems with stress hear and their are some people make a mountain out of a mole hill

as long as the tank is flat on the floor its fine its when you try to level it problems start when you put wedges hear and their

just leave it be

 

[waterdrop]

Yes T1, I know, I think I went overboard after we lost our previous tank some weeks back to a crack in the bottom, gushing water all over the room.

Maybe there is an opportunity for me to learn here. Suppose we generalize these tank-failure events into 2 groups:

1) A raised point anywhere around the rim of a floating-base tank or anywhere on the bottom surface of a non-floating entire-bottom-pane tank.

2) A slightly mis-leveled stand.

Are you and the other members saying that scenerio 2 is much less risky than scenerio 1?

(In my own case it was indeed a failure caused by type 1 above due to water having swelled the wood at one corner causing the floating based to be raised maybe a quarter inch at that corner. The bottom glass cracked from that front left corner over to the middle of the right side.)

~~waterdrop~~

 

[rabbut]

Ay, scenario two is less risky, that's why I'd leave the tank that's off by 1/4 of an inch when the tank is 4 ft lenght well alone, but I think that the OP wants to level it baced on Roosters point...It's the OP's call, and if they are going to go ahead all we can do is advise them on the safest way to go about leveling their tank

All the best
Rabbut

 

[tenke56]

Well... last night I did some calculations and it is in fact 1/4th an inch off. Luckily it is not a problem with my tank being warped, it is the stand that is off. It probably just settled after it had all the weight in it. I will watch it closely but leave it alone as I have had it going for 6 months and it just now started to annoy me. Thanks everyone for their input.