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January 27th 06, 07:24 AM
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Building a tank...
I make that to be about 1735 gallons I generally guess about 10 pounds per gallon to account for water, tank, substrate, whatever else is in there. some reading: http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/diytanksrefugiums/ http://www.duboisi.com/diy/diyglossary.htm Thanks for the links...a lot of useful info found there. How did you come to the amount of 1735 gallons? Is there a formula you used or are you just familiar with tanks of this size? Sean 
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January 27th 06, 07:33 AM
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Building a tank...
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:24:09 GMT, "Sean"
wrote: I make that to be about 1735 gallons I generally guess about 10 pounds per gallon to account for water, tank, substrate, whatever else is in there. some reading: http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/diytanksrefugiums/ http://www.duboisi.com/diy/diyglossary.htm Thanks for the links...a lot of useful info found there. How did you come to the amount of 1735 gallons? Is there a formula you used or are you just familiar with tanks of this size? Sean dimentions (which I forgot now) in feet, 8X5X4=160 times 7.48 gallons per cubic foot= 1196 must have hit the wrong key on the calculator the first time. a different number this time Anyway, the dimentions times 7.48 gives gallons. Or convert everything to inches, multiply it out, then divide by 231 to get gallons.
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January 27th 06, 07:36 AM
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Building a tank...
"Charles" wrote in message ... On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:24:09 GMT, "Sean" wrote: I make that to be about 1735 gallons I generally guess about 10 pounds per gallon to account for water, tank, substrate, whatever else is in there. some reading: http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/diytanksrefugiums/ http://www.duboisi.com/diy/diyglossary.htm Thanks for the links...a lot of useful info found there. How did you come to the amount of 1735 gallons? Is there a formula you used or are you just familiar with tanks of this size? Sean dimentions (which I forgot now) in feet, 8X5X4=160 times 7.48 gallons per cubic foot= 1196 must have hit the wrong key on the calculator the first time. a different number this time Anyway, the dimentions times 7.48 gives gallons. Or convert everything to inches, multiply it out, then divide by 231 to get gallons. Great thanks...been a great help. Sean
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