Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!csustan!csun!acphssrw From: acphssrw@csun.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: Tank Location Message-ID: <956@csun.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 22:20:57 GMT References: <4768@sol.ARPA> <2481@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: acphssrw@csun.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) Organization: California State University, Northridge Lines: 17 In article <2481@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > >I once bought a 100 gallon tank for $50 with the bottom glass cracked. > >You can't put one of THOSE in an apartment. Weighs almost a ton when >filled. It's still in the garage. "A pint's a pound," Richard. 100 gallons of water weighs 800 pounds. I certainly don't worry about 4 or 5 friends standing shoulder to shoulder in my apartment. My waterbed is a helluva lot heavier than that, and it is in my second floor apartment. Although the people downstairs complain that after the Whittier quake, the plaster on their ceiling is cracked right under the bed. I told them it was just the flexure of the frame (it's a wood frame building). I hope I'm right :-). Stephen Walton, representing myself swalton@solar.stanford.edu Cal State, Northridge rckg01m@calstate.BITNET