Weight of 120 gal glass aquarium

[sid700]

What's the weight of an empty 120 gallon glass (1/2" thick glass) aquarium? I plan on moving one and I would like to know how many people I need to move it.

 

[Elite]

I don't know how much it weight but we moved my dad's 150G glass tank with 4 guys.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Well I have a 135g glass aquarium, and it takes atleast 2 people to move it (non-computer programmer type people too ). The hardest part isn't so much the weight it's gripping it, if you just use your hands then you're basically holding the whole tank with the tip of your fingers. When I last moved mine I found that if I used a strap under the tank I could grip the strap (or rolled up towel, etc) I could hold it using my whole arm/forearm strength and it was MUCH easier.

 

[Raddogz]

Just to move it from one room to another room took two guys who are used to moving refrigerators and stoves and such.

To move it about twenty feet (from the person whom I bought it from) took three people - him (he really lifts weights, his wife, and me). So play it safe and get three.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Oh yah, I had about 2 inches of wet sand in the bottom of my 135 the last I moved it... so it had quite a bit of other weight *flexes*

 

[sid700]

Thank you everyone. I'll be recruiting 4. Pyramid Ales come in six anyways. Two of the guys can have a double.

 

[sid700]

Found it. 215lbs empty. Here's the web site:

http://www.alysta.com/books/fishtank.htm


I posted in case someone does a search.

 

[psionicdragon]

I say 4 people, bro.

I moved a 300 gal tank with 5 and it still fell..lol