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Heavy Rocks - Any Concern?
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Keith GH
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Tero
There is nothing wrong in using large rocks as long as you fully understand what you are doing.
Keith
There is nothing wrong in using large rocks as long as you fully understand what you are doing.
Keith
Resurrecting, because I don’t know what I’m doing 👍
I have seen that very heavy rocks will weigh down the aquarium enough that it pushes down the aquarium mat the aquarium sits on. This is on top of a reasonable deep sand bed and egg creates. I can’t believe this is safe; as it’s creating further pressure at bottom seams. In deep aquariums this could be disastrous.
I think this can be alleviated by introducing more rocks to have a more uniform weight across the base, but in short 20kg+ rocks are difficult to distribute imo. Heavy rocks should never not be resting directly on egg crates as sand/gravel supports aren’t static. This crates a smaller area of pressure.
I’ve got shy of 200kgs of rocks that I’d like to use in an aquarium, but mostly stacked in one corner - any suggestions?
I have seen that very heavy rocks will weigh down the aquarium enough that it pushes down the aquarium mat the aquarium sits on. This is on top of a reasonable deep sand bed and egg creates. I can’t believe this is safe; as it’s creating further pressure at bottom seams. In deep aquariums this could be disastrous.
I think this can be alleviated by introducing more rocks to have a more uniform weight across the base, but in short 20kg+ rocks are difficult to distribute imo. Heavy rocks should never not be resting directly on egg crates as sand/gravel supports aren’t static. This crates a smaller area of pressure.
I’ve got shy of 200kgs of rocks that I’d like to use in an aquarium, but mostly stacked in one corner - any suggestions?
