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Laird
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Topic: Fish Room discussion and strategy Posted: February 03 2017 at 10:29am |
So, i'm beginning my triumphant return to SW.
I'm going to be setting up my 180 and on the other side of the wall I'll be doing a fish room. I'll post pictures later. I have a suspended garage and under the garage I have a big room I'm in the early stages of finishing. I'm going to put a bar in the room, a pool table, and my 180 display. On the other side of the concrete wall I'll be putting my fish room. The room is currently a storage room but I have about a 12ft by 3 ft space that I can dedicate to equipment. I plan to put in a utility sink so I can have water lines and drains.
What I'd like is to have a ton of water volume. I'll be putting in a huge sump, huge refug, and a frag system that is all plumbed together. I also plan to have water storage tanks.
So, can people who have fish rooms post pictures and give some of their big dos or don'ts?
Also, I can't figure out how to find my old tank threads for my 90 and 180 because the search function doesn't work. Anyone know any tricks to finding those?
Edited by Laird - February 03 2017 at 10:29am
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Indefinite hiatus from sw aquariums.
Once I have my glorious return I'll set back up the following. 50 Gallon rimless cube. 180 Gallons mixed reef paradise
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Posted: February 03 2017 at 10:35am |
I'm not sure what part of search isn't working for you but you can go to your profile by clicking your username to the left of your post and choosing member profile. Once that page opens there is a link in there that says fine threads by this user. Try that and I'll do some searches as well.
Hopefully one of those is what you are looking for.
Edited by Krazie4Acans - February 03 2017 at 10:47am
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My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water Tank Thread:
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Posted: February 03 2017 at 11:16am |
I have no idea what I was doing wrong, thanks for finding those.
So I still have everything from this thread but I'll be moving it from under the tank to the fish room and adding additional support tanks.
http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=58693&KW=&title=lairds-180-gallon-upgrade
I've always had all the support equipment under the tank, never in its own room where I had a lot more room to work with. So would love for people who have a fish room to give me their thoughts on what they like and don't like.
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Indefinite hiatus from sw aquariums.
Once I have my glorious return I'll set back up the following. 50 Gallon rimless cube. 180 Gallons mixed reef paradise
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Posted: February 03 2017 at 11:57am |
Happy to help. I wish I had a fish room to share those ideas but I'm still under the stand with my setups. Best of luck man. I can't wait to see your new setup. Welcome back to the addiction.
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My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water Tank Thread:
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Posted: February 03 2017 at 1:55pm |
What i'm really interested in seeing is how people do multiple tank support systems. So possibly a frag tank, sump, and separate refuge all in the same system.
Also water change systems.
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Indefinite hiatus from sw aquariums.
Once I have my glorious return I'll set back up the following. 50 Gallon rimless cube. 180 Gallons mixed reef paradise
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Posted: February 03 2017 at 5:14pm |
I have a basement sump room that has most of those components. 45 gallon frag, 40 gallon fuge, 60 gallon sump, water change station, reactors, and wash sink.
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Posted: February 03 2017 at 8:01pm |
96slowbra's fish room is sick... you should check it out. Someday I will have something as nice as his.
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Posted: March 02 2017 at 1:01pm |
check out my build thread. I am doing a fish room in the laundry room. I am including two quarantine / holding tanks and a 120 gallon sump. its still in the building phase but its a work in progress
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