Building a tank...

"Charles" wrote in message
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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