Tank Size / Tank Weight

[kiriyama]

Hi, at the moment I have a 10gall and 20gall in a bedroom upstairs. If it is possible I am looking into replacing the 20 gallon for something slightly bigger.
I bought the tank a year ago and didn't know anything about sizes etc, height of tank is no important or an issue, I'm more looking for a tank that has more floor space in it. I am worried about weight, don't want it crashing into the louge
Current floor is 30"x12" / 80cmx30cm 15"height
Looking at 36"x12" with only 12" height (same volume ?)
or 36"x15" floor space, would this be to heavy, what sizes are your tanks that you have upstairs ?
Any feedback on this would be greatfully appreciated

 

[shroob]

I wouldn't be worried about a 36"x15"x12" tank. But then again I don't know anything about the house you live in.

I personally have a rio 180 and vision 260 in my bedroom upstairs, and at one point had a 285 litre tank at the same time in the same room. I have seen people with larger tanks upstairs, but again, I don't know if they took any special precautions eg. reinforcing.

 

[choochoo]

think how much ur bath weighs when its full

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

But bathroom joists are normally spaced differently to joists in other parts of the house and the joists themselves have different dimensions, all helping to support potentially a 100Kg iron bathtub and the weight of the water it can hold plus the person taking a bathe

You really need to find out the spacing of joists in the upstairs room and which of the room's walls are load bearing, as placing a tank stand across joists and against the load bearing wall get increasingly important with and increase in tank size.

My Korrall60 is the lounge of our first floor maisonette; the Rio240 is in the back room of the first floor (across three joists and immediately next to load bearing wall); the 540l however is at ground level in the garage and hooked up to electricity via a Blagdon Powersafe kit!

 

[kiriyama]

Load bearing wall , would that more than likely be the outside wall of the house, and to run the tank across the joists would make sense, the length of the tank would run across the lenght the joists were running ? so maybe 3 would support the weight as opposed to 1 ?
Sorry 'bout the daft questions, lots of shifts lately and I aint getting any younger

Just would like to get a bit more floor space in the tank, 20gall/95ltr is fine but if the possibilty was there to have 40gall/180ltr that would be awesome