New fishtank - weight advice please

[SLou]

I have recently bought a new fish tank - it's a 450 litre tank so weigh's around 550 litres once filled and with fish in etc.

I live in a first floor flat with block and beam concrete floors - does anyone know whether this is safe?

It is up against an outer wall and what I believe to be a supporting wall.

Tank dimensions are 151x61x64

so far it seems fine, it is a new build-2008 but I'm a bit nervous it might disappear downstairs one day!!!

 

[big-all]

heeelllooo and welcome SLou

550 kilos is perhaps a large bookshelve and 2 people browsing the books in that area
of course in a party you will have several other people in the room would that worry you!!!!

 

[RonnyRaygun]

151cm x 61cm is 0.92m^2.
The total weight of the unit is 550kg which is 5.4 kN which mean the load is 5.85kN/m^2.

A domestic floor is usually designed for 1.5kN/m2 live load spread uniformly over the whole floor area.

As it's up against an outer wall this will mean bending moments and deflections will be lower than if it was in the centre of the room, and as the load is concentrated over a much smaller area (and the floor hasn't yet caved in) then it seems to be capable of carrying the load, but without knowing the floor make up, span lengths etc, there's not way of knowing if it could be proved.