I would think that your tank should be for ~you~. If you want people to see the tank you can always take them to it.

If you really want your tank on the main floor do as has been suggested and get an enginner to look at the house. Unless you want to risk thousands of pounds of water/rock/tank/livestock crashing through to the basement.

My two cents at least ...

yeh maybe I will put it in the basement
it'll make a nice accent to the theater thats down there anyway
as long as the light doesn't interfere with it =/

asherah

If the joists are perpendiclar (90°) to the tank's long length you have no concerns and specially none if going against an outside wall. I've got a 145g across a few joists midway between beams and no issues.

Your tank will be just fine with its long side running perpendicular to the floor joists and being against the outside wall of your house. Go back and read what I posted for you again!!!

If you REALLY don't believe me - Home Hardware has people in the contractor's part of the store that use AutoCAD to design joists/beams/etc. Any place that sells joists and beams will have an AutoCAD person. Anyone who knows AutoCAD can tell someone if they need to reinforce their floors. You don't need an engineer.

oh i misunderstood sorry about that lol
*blushes*

thank you =)

asherah

:D No prob. I cleared it up. :p

i live in a house from 1987
and my 120gal is on the inside wall and is doing fine :) nooooo worries

I have a 120g and a 150g on the same outside wall and have not troubles, but then again my joists run the correct way...I do agree with Kari...I wish I had reinforced the floor as I HATE it when people walk by, it does shake the tank slightly....and I really don't like that!

As a side note to freak you out......we recently had a massive reno done on our house because it had "California Stucco" on it with incorrect material underneath...needless to say it was ROTTEN in many places (the house is only 10 years old) so we had all of it stripped off, the rot removed and fixed, and then Barker Board put on instead....the worst wall for the entire very very large 2 story house was the wall the tanks were on!!!! When our builder took off the stucco it was what was holding the wall up! MASSIVE panic then as they had to build supports etc under the tanks so nothing came crashing down....a tense few days as I was sure I would have tanks in my garage!

:eek: WOW I bet that was scary!

scary doesn't quite come close enough...it was a nightmare!