Tank placement on 2nd floor

Anthrax15

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*Apologies if this is posted in the wrong section*.

My wife and I just moved into a 2 story condo and I will be setting up my tank shortly. The tank will come out to be able 60-ish gallons when its filled. Ideally I would love to have the tank where it currently sits:

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My concern is whether or not this is a load bearing wall. This is what the wall looks like from the backside:

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The blue arrows show the load bearing walls from what I understand:

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The wall that runs parallel with the tank, goes another 10 feet or so to the right. Underneath the aquarium is a bathroom. I am fairly confident the tank will hold with no issue but was hoping others would be able to weigh in. Thanks and happy reefing!
 

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I am by no means an expert in this area, however, if it were me I would not think twice about placing my tank there. I do not believe a 60 gallon tank would create enough weight to cause a potential issue.


^^^This^^^

60g is still (at least IMO) on the smallish side. total weight will be in the #600 range. I think that will be a great spot.




And I'm not sure if you noticed, but the appears to be a dead body on the floor by your dogo_O:po_O
 

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Idkno maybe its a stupid way to look at it but I have had a few friends over that are big guys and if there standing next to each other we are talking about 500+ lbs in less than 2 square ft... and I'm not not worries about that...
 

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