Saying hello/upgrading tanks (as we speak)

i noticed you have it on carpet.....i did that and it was a big mistake if you don't level you tank perfectly the weight doesn't get evenly spread out and can cause you stand to fail. If you want it somewhere that carpet it you should get some thick 1'' plywood and cut out a footprint of your stand and set it on the plywood first.

Just a piece of advice from a lesson i had to learn the hard way....my stand cracked and almost lost a 55G on the floor

 

i figured it would be okay because i dont have a basement, im sitting on a slab, so under the carpet is essentially concrete. do you think its still going to be an issue?

 

Very nice looking tank. The size is probably right as a 120g is rectangular without the hex cut away. Welcome to 3reef.

 

i don't know...my tank was almost perfectly level. The key word is "almost". when measuring the water on one side to the other i had a 1/4'' difference and thought nothing of it. This was a new tank and new stand. it only lasted a week before i had cracking noises waking me up one morning. i would definitly consider putting plywood under the base to provide a solid contact plane with the base of your stand.

 

sweet deal!

 

I have to agree that you need to stablize the tank. Carpeting has some give to it and that's not what you want. I'm not so sure about the plywood but I do know that your dealing with over 1000 lbs of water plus the tank and stand and rock. Personally I would take it all down and cut out at least the area of the stand to the bare concrete and lay the tank on that or lay ceramic tile and level the tile. I have set up many tanks and I stayed away from carpeting. I tiled the dining room in anticipation of a fish tank because I had a 150 gal tank and I had a flood. It would have been a real mess with carpet. It's your decision and good luck either way but I made darn sure the tank was level. I had to use shimms for three of my tanks.

 

yeah level is the most important thing. level length wise and width wise. The plywood on carpet works well, only thing is you need to use the thick stuff. i did some trial and error and found that if you use under a 3/4" thick piece of plywood its no good. i got a nice thick 1'' cutout of my tanks base and it was eays to level even on carpet. where i live i can't cut out the carpet, and have no other place to put it so plywood was the answer for me. if you can avoid using plywood i'd reccommend that but if not this is the way to go