Tank on second floor.

[Seth72]

Originally Posted by monocus

think of a fridge sitting on 2-3 joists and the weight-the joists will take a lot of live weight no problem-especialy alongside a outer wall

I dont think my fridge with just a bottle of mustard in it weighs that much

No, but it is really serious weight we are talking about 1600 pounds,but ive already decided to do it,I just wanted to know if anybody has had any problems running tanks above 90 gallons on the second floor.

Its really hard to find good advice in this hobby,for example,i wasnt even going to buy a tank because i refused to have the heat and power bills from hilade lighting and everyone was saying 6 watts to ten watts per gallon and i figured no way am i going to run 700 watts of lighting for a fish tank.

Then my pro told me that its not the watts but the depth that counts,so just a 24 inch deep tank with a couple of inches substrate then live rock,you can keep corals fine with t5s even stony corals closer to the top.

So I think it is going to be best to try to learn by example...such as how many people are keeping corals just fine in a 24 inch deep tank with t5s.

There are just so many opinions.