Will my floor hold 500lbs?

[Aquavaj]

Thinking of upgrading to a 30g. A rough estimate comes out to about 500lbs. I'm in a house with crawl space and the place I'm thinking of having the tank is against I believe a partition wall (separates 2 bdrms and perpendicular to hallway wall). Will I be ok or does this amount of weight need to be against a load bearing wall?

 

[NB Reefer]

If you know which way the beams run I would position it across beams. You should be fine though. I only really worry once you get above 50 gallons. I have a 38 gallon in a 3rd floor apartment and we are all good.

 

[Backreefing]

One way to look at it is 500lb = 2 250lb men . So can 2 men stand there ?

 

[AZMSGT]

500lbs isn’t to bad. Really shouldn’t need anything.

However, Best tank placement for the most support without reinforcement is to Run perpendicular to floor joists on an outside wall.

Worse case add 4x4 posts under the tank floor joists for added support.

 

[Brandon Smith]

All good advice already.