Hey everyone,
I have been talking this over with my wife and i wanted to include a few pics to let everyone see what i will be starting with.
I will have to build a room on the outside of my house because i already built a wall in the livingroom to put my 225 in wall with a stone surround.
So here is what i want to do. In the picture you see the 4 windows in the wall in the livingroom. I want to remove them and use that space as the viewing section of the tank. In the outside picture that is the space i can build the room. The windows if removed will give me an opening of roughly 13' 3" give or take a little. The space outside i have about 25'x25' to work with. I know i will start out with a 6" reinforced concrete slab for the floor. If you go from finished floor to the bottom of the window opening the stand will have to be almost 3' high. The tank size is still open for debate. I will give you my options.
1. 13'x4'x3' 1,053 gallons
2. 13'x6'x3' 1,580 gallons
3. 13,x8'x3' 2106 gallons
I will have between 3-4 feet between the top of the tank and finished ceiling height roughly? this is on paper of coarse.
I was thinking i need the tank width plus filter room width plus working room. I have a maximum of 25' for everything.
even if i go 8' for the tank i was thinking mabey 4' width room for the filters and another 8' or so for working room behind the filters. So a 25'x20' room?
What do you think?????
Any input will help. Once i start this there is no turning back. I will also discuss tank construction in my circumstances if anyone is willing to chime in.
Thanks in advance
Ron.
I have been talking this over with my wife and i wanted to include a few pics to let everyone see what i will be starting with.
I will have to build a room on the outside of my house because i already built a wall in the livingroom to put my 225 in wall with a stone surround.
So here is what i want to do. In the picture you see the 4 windows in the wall in the livingroom. I want to remove them and use that space as the viewing section of the tank. In the outside picture that is the space i can build the room. The windows if removed will give me an opening of roughly 13' 3" give or take a little. The space outside i have about 25'x25' to work with. I know i will start out with a 6" reinforced concrete slab for the floor. If you go from finished floor to the bottom of the window opening the stand will have to be almost 3' high. The tank size is still open for debate. I will give you my options.
1. 13'x4'x3' 1,053 gallons
2. 13'x6'x3' 1,580 gallons
3. 13,x8'x3' 2106 gallons
I will have between 3-4 feet between the top of the tank and finished ceiling height roughly? this is on paper of coarse.
I was thinking i need the tank width plus filter room width plus working room. I have a maximum of 25' for everything.
even if i go 8' for the tank i was thinking mabey 4' width room for the filters and another 8' or so for working room behind the filters. So a 25'x20' room?
What do you think?????
Any input will help. Once i start this there is no turning back. I will also discuss tank construction in my circumstances if anyone is willing to chime in.
Thanks in advance
Ron.