Fish Tank Weight

[charliesteve]

Hi
I have just purchased a fish tank that has a 40 litre water capacity and am trying to find a suitable stand or cabinet to sit it on. For that I need to know the weight of tank when full with water. I have found a coffee table that has a weight limit of 25 kg but not sure if strong enough.
Thanks

[rowanwitch]

Easy at normal temperature one litre of water weighs one kilogram

[waterboatman]

No, it's not strong enough. Ideally, you want a steel stand.

[rowanwitch]

No it isn't a unit with an internal divider will even out the weight , using gravel will push the weight well over 50 kg and that doesn't include the weight of a lid

[malagabob]

40 ltrs = roughly just under 9 gallons. 1 gallon of water weighs 10lbs. So you want to have a support of at least 100lbs +. To allow for extra stuff you put in the tank.

[charliesteve]

Thanks for all your answers. Good job I never bought the coffee table.

[fiction-factory]

I'm sure this has been aske d before and was answered.
50 litres of water weighs 40kg (give or take a few grams as temperature changes).
Then add the weight of the tank.
I doubt you need to include the weight of the fish unless it's a high density shark.
So the table may not be strong enough

[fiction-factory]

Typo - 40 litres. All others figures are unchanged

[fiction-factory]

Ah- I was thinking of this puzzling question from a few weeks ago, but clearly that wasn't you
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nature/Question1698304.html

[beso]

Pure water weighs one kilogram per litre at 4 degrees Celsius which is chosen because it is the temperature where it has maximum density.

The difference at room temperature is very slight. It weighs 997 grams at 25 degrees.

[Zacs-Master]

What if it cools down, and you’ve specifically bought something to cope with the weight, and it collapses!

[Peter Pedant]

// Easy at normal temperature one litre of water weighs one kilogram//

yup - BA for rowan
metric system was designed like that

purists complain, no really, that the basic unit of mass - kilogram, should be a unit - and not a kilo-unit
such is scientific

I never cd decide how many liters in a cu metre
( 1000 in case you wondered)

none of this
a pint of clear water
wezza pound and a quarter
billox

[Peter Pedant]

// and you’ve specifically bought something to cope with the weight,//

easy - kilogram is a unit of mass and not of weight
ter daaah

yup on der moon, a kilgram - - will weigh less !
16% of what it weighs on earth

unit of force which shd be used, to weigh is Newton ( force exerted on erf by a kilogram is around 10 newtons ) but every one - naughty boys - uses
kg force
no soch ting

when I started - 1980 - a cape wain ventilator - looked a bit like an iron lung - was calibrated in
kg-force/ sq in !!
yikes - we were pretty mixed up in those days