Here is a very useful calculator when building your own fish tank.
This calculator provides the information you need to know about the glass of your new fish tank.
To use this tool: Simply fill in your aquarium length, width and height and you should get the following results:
- Aquarium Volume: Your fish tank volume.
- Glass Thickness: A glass thickness that will hold under the pressure of your fish tank, considering the safety factor specified.
- Glass Area: The sum of areas of the six sides of your aquarium.
- Glass Weight: The weight of your fish tank when empty (assuming glass density of 3.1).
- Glass+Water Weight: The weight of your fish tank when filled with water.
- You will also get your glass surfaces dimensions. Notice the sides surfaces are reduced by the glass thickness.
Safety Factor
The variability of the strength of glass due to limitations of the manufacturing process means a suitable safety factor must be used when calculating glass thickness. The factor commonly used is 3.8. While not a perfect guarantee, it will remove all risk bar that of damaged or very poor quality glass.
Disclaimer Notification: The information provided here is only intended as a guide, TheAquaTools.com is not responsible for any problems that may arise from glass manufacturing defects, construction faults, or any other factors.
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Aquario nao todo plantado,
Aquario nao todo plantado, com laterita e cascalho fino por cima
aquarium calculator
I hope I'm on the right place her for the following questions
The height you specify in the aquariun calculator is the total glass height or just the water level height
It is assumed to be about the same
Anyway, the water level has a much greater impact on the glass thickness than the height of the glass.
Building your aquarium is
Building your aquarium is good but never try this alone. You can do this in the presence of a professional. If you are looking for good windows and glasses than I would like to tell you that Austin windows is really good and are offering their services at a very nominal price.
Bracing
Hi Guys if I use euro bracing as well as cross bracing what will the effect be on the glass thickness
Many thanks
Carl
regarding safety factor
Why are u calculating with safety factor 2.5 if 3.8 is recommended.
Just type
You can change the safety factor by clicking in the field and putting whatever you like instead.
braceless and rimless
I assume the calculator is for aquariums with bracing such that the front and back glass are supported essentially on all 4 sides? What if you are building a braceless and rimless aquarium?
Actually the calculator is
Actually the calculator is not for aquariums with bracing...
Great, thank you for this
Great, thank you for this useful tool
I'm glad you like it :)
I'm glad you like it :)
Tempered Glass Option
It would be a useful addition to the calculator to add a tempered glass option checbox for the safety factor.
error in calculation
This is a helpfull tool!
Please note that for the aquarists it is more important to know the volume of water that the aquarium holds rather than the volme of air it displaces. The total weight when full is in error.
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yes, I guess you right. But notice it says weight of glass+water... which I think is pretty close - minus the volume the gravel takes.
Also notice, the gravel takes space, but is also heavier than water. And it gets even more complicated if you consider the water that are inside the gravel.... this is why I didn't provide a more accurate total weight.
how is calculated Glass Thickness
Hi Guys, very cool site. it is very interesting to me to know how is calculated the glass thickness.(formula)
Sorry for my english i am from russia)))
thickness calculations for a Rimless
How can i calculate the glass thickness for a rimless tank 72 x 26 x 21 and 60 x 25 x 17.
Great post, I look forward to
Great post, I look forward to reading more.
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