bikerbabe Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Picking up my new tank off trademe tomorrow :happy1: It's 1000 x 450 x 480... Scuse my ignorance.... but can someone please tell me how many litres that is... :spop: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 1000x450x480= your volume give or take Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redracer77 Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 216 litres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikerbabe Posted December 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 216 litres Sweet.. thanks :cr9: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 216 litres also understand that 216 is the total outside size of the tanks volume. If you measure the water that is actually in it when operating it will be a lot less because of substrate and other items in the tank, the glass volume and the level of the water. if it is 8mm glass and you fill it to 3cm from the top of the tank the gross amount of water will be around 28L less so that makes it 188L inside volume then minus the volume of ornaments, substrate, rockwork or timber etc that you put into the tank so it does reduce pretty quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuel90 Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 also understand that 216 is the total outside size of the tanks volume. If you measure the water that is actually in it when operating it will be a lot less because of substrate and other items in the tank, the glass volume and the level of the water. if it is 8mm glass and you fill it to 3cm from the top of the tank the gross amount of water will be around 28L less so that makes it 188L inside volume then minus the volume of ornaments, substrate, rockwork or timber etc that you put into the tank so it does reduce pretty quickly. this depresses me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 this depresses me. why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redracer77 Posted December 7, 2013 Report Share Posted December 7, 2013 also understand that 216 is the total outside size of the tanks volume. If you measure the water that is actually in it when operating it will be a lot less because of substrate and other items in the tank, the glass volume and the level of the water. if it is 8mm glass and you fill it to 3cm from the top of the tank the gross amount of water will be around 28L less so that makes it 188L inside volume then minus the volume of ornaments, substrate, rockwork or timber etc that you put into the tank so it does reduce pretty quickly. I di know this but was being lazy, hope it doesn't affect the tank setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted December 7, 2013 Report Share Posted December 7, 2013 The good thing is...It doesn't really matter. For dosing medications it's important to have a rough idea, but even then for the medications we use the dosage range between clinically effective and deadly overdose is usually so wide you'd be fine most of the time dosing by splashes. If you have a marine or brackish it's moderately important, but even then most will use a refractometer or a hydrometer to adjust the salinity rather than measuring out a specific amount of salt for the water. For calculating lighting or stocking levels volume is nothing more than a rule of thumb. Why did I spend 5 minutes writing this when I could have just said, I di know this but was being lazy, hope it doesn't affect the tank setup. Meh, it's close enough. :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted December 7, 2013 Report Share Posted December 7, 2013 yeah close enough, was just giving the initial poster some more info so they can also understand how to calculate volume accurately in case they need to at some point. for smaller tanks it can be an even larger difference, for this 216L tank by the time the substrate goes in and if rock piles were added the volume could easily be as low as 150L which is more than 25% less than the overall volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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