tank dimentions?

[Trent]

Looks like I too will be moving. Just across town.
And of course I want to get bigger and better.
I would like to build a custom tank. Even though I've no experience. Drawing from the great resources of this site and others.

Scott made a great point about something I wouldn't have seen until the last moment. 'Is there a basement, and are the floors made of wood, ect.'?
Just found out there is no basement under that part of the building. Concrete slab.


I've got room to build something maybe 8' wide and 10" long.
Of course I'd never use up all that space!
I will build a strong steel and /or wood base. With help from the nice locals hopefully
;)
The tank will be near a nothern facing window on a major street downtown. Ceilings are about 10'.

To the Question: With accessability in mind, how can I calculate dimentions for a tank @ 4 kiloliter = 1,056.688194 gallon [US, liquid]?
This can be made of acrylic or glass and partitioned into two sections.
Now I know that sounds huge but I was looking at www.livingcolor.com (http://www.livingcolor.com)
and seen that a tank of that size doesn't really look that big.
-->Problem with those tanks are most of the corals are fake.

[afss]

You tell me the length you want it to be and i can tell you what the width and height can be.

Basically you take the length*width*heigth(all in cm) and that will give you the total cc (cubic cm)

You then divide by 1000. There are 1000 cc in one liter.

you can then do the conversion to imperial, but since you seem to like working in metric then you can skip that step.

With this being said If you have a tank of 3 meters long and you know you want to have a tank of 4000 liters, then you would multiply the 4000*1000 to get the number of cc and then divide by the length (in this case 300 cm) = 4000000/300 = 13333.33.

Now this number 13333.33 is what you need the surface area of the end of the tank to be. So you could have a tank 1 cm tall and 13333.33 cm wide or 2 cm tall and 6666.66 cm wide etc etc etc.

Personally I like tanks that are similar in heigth as they are in width so something in the neighborhood of 115 cm by 115 cm.

Now I would also think it might be cheaper to work in common measurements to achieve a similar volume rather than trying to achiive exactly 4000 liters.

A similar sized tank would be 8 feet *4*4 +/- 960 gallons

Scott

BTW the conversion from feet to meters is 0.3048. If you have ffet and want to get meters you multipy by .3048 if you have meters and want feet you divide by .3048

[Trent]

Hmm. Starting to feel like a dufus. just simple math there.
I was thinking there was some special conversion or something.
Hey, all new to me.
Thanks for the help Scott.
might go down today and get some workable measurements.

[afss]

I wouldn't feel like a dufus. Remember math and volumes etc is what i do for work. Play with basic math every day:D

Your not going to know until you ask.

Scott