How do you calculate volume, in litres?

[joiner_sim]

I'm having a made to measure aqaurium soon, but want to know what the aquarium will hold in litres. How do you work this out?

 

[SVB]

There are 1000 litres in a meter cubed. (i.e. a box 1mx1mx1m)

Therefore, length x height (of water) x width x 1000 = Volume (liters)

where all distances are in meters or fractions there-of.

BRgds

Simon

 

[bjm]

1 litre = 1000 cubic centimetres (eg 10cm x 10cm x 10 cm = 1L)

Brian

 

[joiner_sim]

Thanks for the quick responses! :wink:

I'm afraid I'm not very good at maths!

 

[Steve Maskery]

Yes. For an aquarium, measure the inside dimensions in centimetres - Length x Width X Height of the water.

Then divide the answer by 1000.

S

 

[jasonB]

Then deduct for gravel, rocks etc and add the volume of any filters to get the actual volume for adding treatments etc. Or just measure how much water it takes to fill, counting buckets is Ok on a tank but I used a water meter on my pond 16,000lts :wink:

Jason

 

[Jenx]

A word to the wise too Simon ....

Make sure there' plenty of 'meat' to hold it all up ....
Consider : 4.45litres = 1 Gallon in old money, ok ?

1 Gallon of water weighs 10lbs.

An aquarium full of water is a mighty heavy article :wink:

 

[joiner_sim]

Thanks for the advice, that was mainly why I needed to know what volume of water was calculated by. As I know it 1 litre is roughly 1 Kilo. I started off with a 79 litre aquarium!!!!! I have now got it down to a 45 litre aqaurium.

 

[bjm]

Yes, 1L = 1 Kg

Brian

 

[John. B]

It's a thought :-k Jasons pond has a little over 16 tons of water in it :-s:-s:-s:-s That's of course imperial,

 

[johnf]

use this

http://joshmadison.com/software/downloa ... r-windows/