I am considering getting a new aquarium to put in my living room and it could be as large as 44 x 18 x 18 inches .I know how much the tank weighs and the water ( 234 litres at a lb a litre) and then there is the weight of rocks and the cupboard that it sits on . I was trying to compare it with a bath,filled with water plus a body in the bath . I can calculate the weight of water and my body weight is easy enough to get but can anyone suggest what a plastic bath might weigh .? Stuart
Weight of bath + water+ A Body
Feb 28, 2008
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1kg per litre
they're easy to carry - 10-20kg at a guess.
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Compared to the rest of it, nothing.
A plastic bath is an easy one man lift - say 20-30lbs depending on quality.
And a litre of water weighs a kilogram (2.2lbs) not a pound..
I'd guesstimate a 44"x18"x18" aquarium as around 600-650lbs all in. So that's three big blokes stood close together, one behind the other.
Don't put it in the middle of a suspended floor, but near the walls should be OK. Don't quote me on that...
Ah yeah .Thats what I meant :-)
Ooops ...Ah yeah .Thats what I meant :-)
That sounds about right .It would be up against a wall anyway .
Well not if you use the water you get when you melt dry ice which of course is dry water which weighs a lot less than wet water.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com saying something like:
A litre weighs a kilo. An Imperial Gallon (not a Yankee gallon) weighs ten pounds.
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Since the OP quoted his tank in inches a cubic foot of water at 62.4lb just might be the figure he really needs.
Rocks will probably have a density of somewhere between 2.5 and 3.
No.I did actually make a mistake in saying a litre weighs a lb and not a Kilo.
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A plastic bath weighs not a lot.
A body weighs a little less the its same volume of water. You don't need the weight of a full bath of water plus body, because as soon as the body enters the water the water would be displaced (down the drain).
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the same size of my aquarium as it happens
Are you going to be the aquatic attraction, then ?
Well that would only be the case if there was enough water in it to let the water overflow .I was just meaning a normal amount of water when taking a bath
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