Volume Math
 

Hi there,
I forgot how to calculate the water volume when dealing with tank dimensions. :rolleyes: Can someone please let me know how many gallons and how litres this would work out to be L42xW14xH14

thanks, Rich :mrgreen:

Re: Volume Math
 

42x14x14 divided by 231 = 35.6 gal.

For conversion to litres do a Google search with the question "convert gallons to litres" (or liters). Google is everyone's friend :cool:

Imperial or US Gallons?

Info is from thekrib.com, so must be in US gals.

That is US gallons, which is 134.76 liters according to my trusty calculator. :biggrin:

Go here for all sorts of conversions.

http://www.onlineconversion.com/

Thanks Bev, Bob, and Scavenger that's a big help :exclaim:

Well I guess I will be upgrading to a 35gl custom made tank soon :mrgreen:
Now that my tank is going to be 7 years old in a few months, I decided to go alittle longer and alittle shallower. The folks at Hagen told me back in the summer that they don't recomend more than ten years for a reef setup due to silicone breakdown. So instead of going bigger, I'm just going to add a few inches either side and front to back. Just so I can use up all the available space left on my dresser with my 27gl on it at the moment
Thanks again, Rich

Now, THAT'S something I did not know :eek: I can understand how SW would easily break down silicone and almost anything else exposed to it. Thanks for bringing it up :cool:

Hey Beverly :biggrin:
Just to let you know that it's not just the saltwater that breaks down the silicon. Other factors come in to play such as; moving tanks, wear and tear from sand and abrassive rocks, and the number one cause(so I was told) is from passing cleaning magnets to the edges or over the corners of the silicone :eek:

That's kinda funny now that I work out the math, once a wekk cleaning over 7 years= 362 passes over or beside the silicone-now I can see why they rate there tanks for 10 years :rolleyes:

Here is some of the email sent to me by the folks at Hagen:

OR ... you could take a razor and remove the old silicone and buy a couple of $5.00 tubes and replace the old silicone :eek: :cool: