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I was wrong about my tank size! I actually have a bigger thank than I thought.

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Mits
, 02-07-2011 at 07:55 PM (1747 Views)
I put together my new system last summer having purchased the new display tank from an old high school classmate via Facebook. He said it was 90 gallons, and I never had any reason to question it. I knew the dimensions, as I built the stand and canopy myself. I've always calculated everything out and listed it as a 90 gallon because I am not familiar with larger tank dimensions. A few days ago I was listening to a podcast and they said a 90 gallon was something different than what I had, so today I googled it and found out that it is actually a 120! I can't believe how off I was. Now some things make sense though, like how I need more flow even though I thought I had a good amount of turnover, and how I had to add more salt at first. I thought it just took more to go up from the 1.023 on the bucket to the 1.025 that I go with. I guess I can get a couple of bigger fish now.

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  1. David W's Avatar
    To calculate the exact gallonage of a tank multiply the legnth*width*height divided by 231.
  2. Jessy's Avatar
    nice find!
  3. snorkeler's Avatar
    :-) seems like pitfalls of the inch/feet/gallon/oz system to me. You'd never have any doubts about your tank size in metric system as everything is a multiple of 10. It is so easy to find out liters from cm (just multiply the three dimensions and divide by 1000 because 1000cm3 = 1L) that you know almost instantly a tank size. Without discounting the sand and rock volumes, of course:-) .
  4. Midnight's Avatar
    Ahh, take your metric system and shove it up your arse, lol.
  5. Jessy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Midnight
    Ahh, take your metric system and shove it up your arse, lol.
    Hey! I love the metric system. The only thing I like about our system is the inch. It's something I have down in estimations... CM and MM not so much, but it is far better way to measure.
  6. snorkeler's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Midnight
    Ahh, take your metric system and shove it up your arse, lol.
    Ooohhh... touched a pain point there Let me guess, your teacher at school who taught the metric stuff was not nice... yes, childhood traumas last... Happened with me and French language class, I know....

    Anyway, sorry for the metric comment, it was my engineering mind, I couldn't resist.

    Now, Jesse has a good point. I'm an amateur woodworker and most of my tools and books I bought while traveling to the US, so they are inch based. So I tend to think woodworking in inches (just inches, not feet and inches). I don't understand completely why, but, to design furniture I find it more comfortable to do in inches than centimeters... maybe it is because the inch is something you can relate to (approximately the width of a thumb) and it looks aesthetically pleasing to the eye... like Jesse comments in terms of estimating widths? Probably I guess.

    Now for some humor: the Imperial system is superior in many ways!! It develops fractional math competencies! Yes, like, why on earth would you learn to recognize which /32 or /64 fraction is larger in an instant except if you needed it to pass an exam? It is also great for the economy, as this blog post illustrates. Or almost illustrates, as nothing bad happened (praise the Lord). How? Well, with all the funky conversion constants it is not infrequent for mistakes to happen, right? After all most people are not very mathematically inclined. Well, mistakes mean something broke, spoiled, killed, which in turn means purchase a new one! Which of course means more sales and therefore more jobs!!! Like, think about it, a tank crash due to incorrect dosage calculation is great for the economy!!! (this is humor, remember!!! ok, not very bright humor.... :-) )
  7. Midnight's Avatar
    Metric is great in all, until you want to eyeball something more than a centimeter.