[Frankie]

Hello everyone.
Over the years of keeping fresh and salt water aquariums, I have seen theres a question as to weather the aquariums we want in our home will be ok on the flooring we have there.
I have helped a lot of people in the past in the chat rooms with this question and a few here in this forum. Once people found out that I did hard wood flooring for a living it was always the big question, "How do i protect my wood floors and are they strong enough?"
Again I found myself recently in debate over weather plywood is safe under an aquarium. I think there is legitimate reason for concern of long term settling of large aquariums and floor structure. I want to share my professional thoughts on it and hope that others will join in also with there experience and expertize on the subject.
I will answer questions on structure, how to protect your flooring and safety.
I will bring personal experiences to the table of floors and sub floors I have seen and repaired over the last 15 years in the field. One of which was a 35 year old lfs I rebuilt in NY with over 5000 gallons of water along just one wall over a basement and a 600 gallon aquarium in the center. Some of you might remember that from the chat room 3 years ago.
I look forward to your questions and answers. Were all here to learn, thats why we come here. I hope I am able to help in this area to those of you who can use my expertize.