[AquaticLife] Styrofoam Under A Tank?
\Steve// already preemptively answered this but foam will not level a tank. Any compression of the foam will be done across the entire piece of foam equally so if the stand is not level before the foam, it won’t be afterwards.
You are better off using shims under the bottom of the stand to level it first to compensate for any floor sag and then as you fill the tank, you may have to shim even more. Putting a larger tank (55G+) on a load bearing wall will help prevent sagging floors in raised homes but shims may still be needed.
Believe me, some of these 200+ year old homes in N’Awlins are built like fortresses (they’ve withstood many, many hurricanes) but the floors still sag like crazy in many of them. You can feel them bounce when you walk on them. I’ve almost always had to use shims on the front of my stands even when putting them parallel with a load bearing wall, to keep them from leaning forward. Once, for one of my customers, I even put braces on the back/top of the stand and screwed them into wall studs to make sure the thing wasn’t going to lean forward over time since they had to put the tank in a hallway on an inside non-load bearing wall (most of your external walls will have some load bearing capacity). I’ve never gotten one perfect yet but within a 1/8″ margin. Then you just have to fill up the water line above the top tank brace so you don’t see the leaning water line. LOL
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