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09-25-2008, 06:56 PM
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| | Fire Goby
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Chesterfield, VA Age: 21
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|  Make sure you put jacks under your floor!
sadly i had to take down my 90 gallon tank because well my floor broke. Its not as bad as it sounds its, i maybe have a 1/2 inch indention in the floor. all the particle board is crushed under the house and the struts were cracking. so this needs fixing before i can even thinking of putting it back up. so i moved everything over to a 40 gallon. I had to take whole lot of frogspawn and a sixline up to the LFS, but atleast i got 160(not bad considering i bought the frogspawn for 25 dollars 4 years ago) in store credit. anyway make sure your floor will hold the weight of the tank, i learned my lesson the hard way. i just hope the 40 isn't to heavy for the floor(and the ancient stand it came with lol).
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09-25-2008, 07:00 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Originally Posted by sostoudt  sadly i had to take down my 90 gallon tank because well my floor broke. Its not as bad as it sounds its, i maybe have a 1/2 inch indention in the floor. all the particle board is crushed under the house and the struts were cracking. so this needs fixing before i can even thinking of putting it back up. so i moved everything over to a 40 gallon. I had to take whole lot of frogspawn and a sixline up to the LFS, but atleast i got 160(not bad considering i bought the frogspawn for 25 dollars 4 years ago) in store credit. anyway make sure your floor will hold the weight of the tank, i learned my lesson the hard way. i just hope the 40 isn't to heavy for the floor(and the ancient stand it came with lol). | Who built your house ? Beer's and white or Danny Cardan LOL I have never had any issues with flooring in a home that passed any type of inspection I live over in Triple Crown and have had several tanks all in the same room from a 180 to 125 and 90 and 75 . Never a problem yet.. Just one tank in there now .. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | 
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09-25-2008, 07:02 PM
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| | Fire Goby
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Chesterfield, VA Age: 21
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im not familar with those names, but my house is pretty old. | |
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09-25-2008, 07:04 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dallas
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Is this a trailer? particle board on a floor? | |
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09-25-2008, 07:06 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Louisville KY
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Wow. I can't see that happening with that size tank. unless house is full of termites or somebody didn't now how to build a house properly
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09-25-2008, 07:06 PM
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| | Fire Goby
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Chesterfield, VA Age: 21
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i assumed it was particle board it might have been plywood, i was more focused on the beams under the house
to be fair the beams probably would have held for a good while longer but i dont want to risk it, i think most of this happened when i had a 55 gallon sump under the tank because thats when i noticed the most change in water level, i put off checking it for a good while.
Last edited by sostoudt; 09-25-2008 at 07:16 PM.
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09-25-2008, 07:11 PM
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| | Millepora
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Chester, Pa Age: 23
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that sucks, at least it doesn't seem to sound to bad. Hope you can fix it easily, good luck.
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Equipment: 55 gal, Remora Skimmer w/ maxi jet 1200 pump, 4x54w T5 lighting, 2 super actinics, 2 12,000K actinic white bulbs, 55+ lbs fiji live rock...
Inhabitants: Ocellaris Clownfish, Yellow Tailed Damsel, Six Line Wrasse, Yellow Watchman Goby, 3 Chromis, Crocea Clam, Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
Corals: Zoas, Yellow Fiji Leather, Pineapple Brain, Frogspawn, Pearl Bubble, Blastomussa Merleti, Monti, GSP, Green Psammacora | |
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09-25-2008, 07:14 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Louisville KY
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If you can get to the floor joists I would get some of the same lumber and double up the joists to strenghten it. Most joists should be 2*10's or 2*12 depending on when it was built. With some 2*4's for bracing horizontally. | |
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09-25-2008, 07:28 PM
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| | Fire Goby
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Chesterfield, VA Age: 21
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Originally Posted by Tangster Who built your house ? Beer's and white or Danny Cardan LOL I have never had any issues with flooring in a home that passed any type of inspection I live over in Triple Crown and have had several tanks all in the same room from a 180 to 125 and 90 and 75 . Never a problem yet.. Just one tank in there now .. | you better knock on wood lol but the houses there look newer then mine(if Im thinking of the right place.)
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09-25-2008, 08:16 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Dallas
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I was just wandering because I have an old condo(1973). It's pier and beam foundation. Plywood/ beams. I hope I don't have any issues. Got a 180 gallon here and the place has foundation issues as it is. I had to use a lot of shims to get it level. | |
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