Is foam insulation board safe?

[Barncat]

Hey everyone,

As a weight saving measure (sibce I live in a mobile home,) I'm contemplating using some of this stuff in a future upgrade build:

I know that this stuff can be safely used in other forms of vivaria and if I end up using it I was planning on carving it with my dremel, then coating it in silicon/aragonite/oolite sand to make it blend with my existing reef rock (this foam board would be used in an upgrade tank.)

Plan B is making more reef rock out of Quikrete, salt and aragonite or oolite sand.

What do you think?

 

[exnisstech]

Not sure but just want to mention a mobile home floor may very well be as strong or stronger than a stick built house because of the steel beams with steel out riggers but I'm not a expert but have been under a few mobile homes.

 

[Pistondog]

Hey everyone,

As a weight saving measure (sibce I live in a mobile home,) I'm contemplating using some of this stuff in a future upgrade build:

I know that this stuff can be safely used in other forms of vivaria and if I end up using it I was planning on carving it with my dremel, then coating it in silicon/aragonite/oolite sand to make it blend with my existing reef rock (this foam board would be used in an upgrade tank.)

Plan B is making more reef rock out of Quikrete, salt and aragonite or oolite sand.

What do you think?

Stupid question, wont it float?

 

[Reefering1]

Not sure but just want to mention a mobile home floor may very well be as strong or stronger than a stick built house because of the steel beams with steel out riggers but I'm not a expert but have been under a few mobile homes.

I believe he wants to make rocks, for inside the tank, out of them...(?)

 

[exnisstech]

I believe he wants to make rocks, for inside the tank, out of them...(?)

Got that but he mentioned because of weight saving since he lived in a mobile home.

 

[Reefering1]

Got that but he mentioned because of weight saving since he lived in a mobile home.

Ohh yea,sure- right there in the 1st sentence...

 

[Barncat]

Not sure but just want to mention a mobile home floor may very well be as strong or stronger than a stick built house because of the steel beams with steel out riggers but I'm not a expert but have been under a few mobile homes.

That's good to know! I appreciate that, I didn't know that, I was basically just figuring that if a mobile home floor can hold multiple fully grown male humans at once in one spot (assuming they weigh around 200 lbs each,) plus heavy appliances like fridges it can probably hold a 600+ lb aquarium!

 

[Barncat]

Stupid question, wont it float?

I'm gonna glue them down to the glass so no floating!

 

[Barncat]

I believe he wants to make rocks, for inside the tank, out of them...(?)

Yes, that's what I want to do, make rocks out of them! And I'm female.

 

[Reefering1]

Yes, that's what I want to do, make rocks out of them! And I'm female.

How big of a tank, how much weight do you think you'll be saving?