Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!gargoyle!ddsw1!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: Tank Location Message-ID: <2566@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 13 Dec 87 09:32:55 GMT References: <4768@sol.ARPA> <2481@gryphon.CTS.COM> <956@csun.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 27 Summary: Uhh yeah, right. In article <956@csun.UUCP> acphssrw@csun.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) writes: >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. Uhh, yeah. Why do I keep thinking there are 1000 pounds to a ton ? Harumpfh. >I certainly don't worry about 4 or 5 friends standing shoulder to >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 :-). The difference is, with a waterbed, the load is spread out over a larger area. With a 100 gallon tank, the 800+ pounds is in a 2' x 5' area. Makes me nervous. I sorta like the people downstairs. :-) >Stephen Walton