Hi all, I will be moving my fish tanks from my office at work to my house which has original 1930s wooden flooring. Anyone have any experience with a good waterproof floor mat I can place underneath the stand? Happy wife and all
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SecondYou can get rubber mats in a variety of sizes for snow blowers, laundry machines, heck even cardio mats for home gyms. BUT I wouldn't consider one for under a tank because no matter how big, it will have an edge. If water wicks under that edge then the result will be 100X worse then if it just was on regular hardwood floors and left to dry on it's own. Water under a waterproof mat will stay wet MUCH longer. As someone who has 2 tanks in a room with hardwood floors, my advice is to just have a bunch of towels you can use whenever you need to. If that's your regular bath towels or beach towels then fine. But make sure you have a bunch. Then use them liberally after/during water change or any time there is water getting onto the floor.
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Managing The Wife is at least 50% of the requirement for entry into the aquarium hobby I have foundThanks guys! Hopefully the wife will understand the reasoning to not use a floor mat!
This x1000 happy wife happy life! She saw my old 90g aquarium about 12 years ago when we first started dating so hopefully she will be happy with the new tanks but it will be a battle to start with I'm sure!Managing The Wife is at least 50% of the requirement for entry into the aquarium hobby I have found
My wife had similar concerns as yours. I talked with her about it and told her I could keep it under control and make the tanks look good. She was hesitant but agreed to let me try. A few years into keeping the various tanks and she no longer has reservations about me keeping them looking good, but I still must negotiate each 'new' tank I acquire so I'm part way to getting it right ;P