Rock Weight 14 and 18kg for Glass Tank 10mm glass Jewel Vision 450 tank , is it safe?

Hi Guys

So as per my previous post , I found some rocks in the garden , tested them with acid and they seem safe for my tank .

Now the second part , Iv stripped down and cleaned the tank , removed everything but the background .
and I need to put this tank together again .
I will be replacing the black gravel for pool filter sand , removing most of the driftwood and replacing them with these rocks that I found .

Thing is two are rather large , One weighing 14 Kg alone , and the other close to 18 Kg and the other 4 of around 5 to 7 kgs

I had purchased some eggcrate before the lockdown and planned on using this , laying it on the glass and placing the rocks on top of this .

Will my tank be fine ? I dont know what the thickness of the glass is all round as there are these kind of panels around it making it a little difficulty to guage thickeness or really what glass Jewel uses on their tanks ( I think it might be float glass? ) BUT i have measured the back glass and its 10mm , its a Jewel Vision 450 tank.

Will the weight of these rocks be ok for the bottom glass? I wont be piling them on top of each other , more like scattering them around .

Thanks guys

 

Along with the egg crate your going to be fine! I've put heavier into my standard 3 foot and 4 foot.

 

Check this video out

 

Just make sure your stand is level, the tank is flat on a solid base and nothing between tank and base (that is if it hasn't got a polistireen base).

 

Thanks so much people! I really appreciate the advice , The Base of the tank does not have a polistireen base , its got some sort of factory bracket around the edges and what looks like a plastic brace piece underneath that . There is a gap between the Stand and the tank , The tank seems to sit on this plastic piece .I'm not sure if im describing this properly ,I have attached a picture for reference. The picture is not of the Vision 450 , but kind of the same way that it sits on its base cabinet. ( I have the standard Jewel cabinet ) See at the bottom theirs that bar going across the center and there is like a plastic surround as well .

 

Yup using the Vision 450 with its original stand , Yesterday , I tried to scape the tank , added a few rocks , I chickened out on the heavy rock at 18Kgs LoL to scared i might drop it while lowering it in the tank , or it might be 2 heavy for the tank , I stuck to the two sub 12 kg rocks and a few of the smaller ones . Tank feels strange and looks strange now with the pool filter sand , I have been using the black gravel for so many years , The filter sand does seem to make the tank look brighter . Im not using the big piece of driftwood as well , trying to keep the tank as open as possible .

 

LoL im so afraid , im a total amateur at Aquascaping and this forum is fulled with professionals haha , and this is my first time using rocks , Im trying to do a less is more to ease maintenance in the tank , So the less I have the easier it is for the filters to wash of the sand and suck up the dirt or left over food . Will post up some pictures as soon as im complete . I have noticed the tank a lot brighter with the pool sand though , even the background seems to be brighter .

 

@A new day Thanks so much for the encouragement I really really appreciate it . It gives me some hope . I know im guaranteed to make mistakes on this new change , The tank had been running for many years with its old setup of black gravel , driftwood and plants . Occasionally , like once in two years, I would drain the tank , remove the wood , pressure wash the wood , clean off the walls , fill it up and restart the filters . So this is a compleatly new change for me.

So I added the rocks , then sand , and used a few small pieces of driftwood here and there, Cleaned out the internal filter , filled up the tank and started up the internal Filter . Its been running like this for about 4 maybe more hours now and the water still seems very misty or cloudy , I have never experienced this before , Generally when Redoing this tank with my normal black sand which I have been using since forever , the tank is generally clear at around the 20 minute mark .

I suspect its the new pool filter sand that's causing the cloudiness , Will this eventually settle or is there something I should do ?
I will attach a temporary Tetratec EX1200 Canister filter to it tomorrow to increase the filtration of the tank , Will this help to speed up the removal of the cloudiness ? I say temporary because the primary canister filter , also a Tetratec EX1200 that I use on this tank , in conjunction with the Jewel internal filter . Is now being used to filter a smaller temporary tank , that's housing the few smaller fish and plants that were in this big tank . So once this tank has settled , I will transfer that canister filter back to the big tank with the fish and plants .

Im not used to seeing the tank so cloudy . Should I test anything? I used a torch from my phone against the glass and it seems to be some kind of mist cloudiness . I did wash the sand out thoroughly but maybe not enough?

 

@Zippy320 ,

That is from the PFS and will eventually clear with the floss, but can be a bit of a pain

Unfortunately with PFS you wash and wash and wash until you think its clean and then.. do it all over again
I usually give the first big wash and then leave it in a bucket filled with salty water for a day or two
Then give it a good couple of rinses again before putting in the tank