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).

 

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 ..

 

im not familar with those names, but my house is pretty old.

 

Is this a trailer? particle board on a floor?

 

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

 

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.

 

that sucks, at least it doesn't seem to sound to bad. Hope you can fix it easily, good luck.

 

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.

 

you better knock on wood lol but the houses there look newer then mine(if Im thinking of the right place.)

 

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.