Just joined the site last week. Have actually read MFK for at least 2-3 yrs now but figured I'd finally join and share my current project I am working on. My basement in my house is home to my shop and office for a business I run building custom fishing rods, but it also home to all my tanks. I have numerous 75g tanks down there as well as a 125g frontosa tank. In my ever going quest for the ultimate man cave though it was time I got a new bigger tank project to work on. So right before Christmas I picked up a 240g Acrylic tank 6ft x 2ft x 30" tall.
First here's a few pics of the basement, the first pic is looking to the left when you go down the stairs, that section was mostly my office.
Then this pic is from the same spot just looking to the right hand side. You can see the shop is behind the wall where the tropheus tank is built into. I actually just built that tank into that wall not even two months ago, but when I got the new big tank I decided that wall had to go.
This is what that wall looked like from the backside.
As you can see in that pic the flooring and ceiling where different between the two rooms so once the wall came down there was a lot of remodeling to be done before the actual tank work could start.
That was all right before Christmas in that condition. Then a few days before Christmas my new 240g baby was brought in.
Then the morning of December 26th this is how that wall looked...
And then about 8 hrs later that night, I had a good start and I had the wall torn down.......
Then came ripping down the old 1960's cardboard tile ceiling.....
And replacing it with stained wood boards to match the rest of the ceiling.
And onto some paint work on the walls to match the rest.....
That was about 8 days ago. So after that then it was onto the floor and making it all match.
And finished the flooring about 4 days ago. All that is left of the remodel is about 18" of ceiling over where the big tank is going and pretty much the "remodeling" part will be done. So this is the current state as it is now tonight.
The good thing now is that since most the remodel work is done, that means I can finally get to actual tank work now. So starting probably sometime this week I will be getting all the wood to build the stand. My plans for the stand are to build it high enough so that a 20g xtra tall (24" tall) tank will fit into the stand in the center below the main 240g tank. In that 20g tall tank will be a 3d background (I make all my own 3d backgrounds) and it will also have a sand fall (waterfall) in that smaller tank. The small tank will ride on some heavy duty tool chest slides so I can pull it out for tank cleaning. The 240g tank will have a full 3d background as well as some blue cold cathode backlit caves which I have done on some of my other tanks in the past.
The stocking of the 240 will be all the haps you see in one of my 75g's in some of the pictures above. then the 75 g will be moved over for the trophs to give them more room.
Will post updates as I get further into the stand build this week hopefully.
Also since my fish were not shown in the pics very well, here's a short video of most of my fish. Only ones not in the vid are my trophs though, I just got them a couple months ago and the vid was shot before I got them.
Steve
First here's a few pics of the basement, the first pic is looking to the left when you go down the stairs, that section was mostly my office.
Then this pic is from the same spot just looking to the right hand side. You can see the shop is behind the wall where the tropheus tank is built into. I actually just built that tank into that wall not even two months ago, but when I got the new big tank I decided that wall had to go.
This is what that wall looked like from the backside.
As you can see in that pic the flooring and ceiling where different between the two rooms so once the wall came down there was a lot of remodeling to be done before the actual tank work could start.
That was all right before Christmas in that condition. Then a few days before Christmas my new 240g baby was brought in.
Then the morning of December 26th this is how that wall looked...
And then about 8 hrs later that night, I had a good start and I had the wall torn down.......
Then came ripping down the old 1960's cardboard tile ceiling.....
And replacing it with stained wood boards to match the rest of the ceiling.
And onto some paint work on the walls to match the rest.....
That was about 8 days ago. So after that then it was onto the floor and making it all match.
And finished the flooring about 4 days ago. All that is left of the remodel is about 18" of ceiling over where the big tank is going and pretty much the "remodeling" part will be done. So this is the current state as it is now tonight.
The good thing now is that since most the remodel work is done, that means I can finally get to actual tank work now. So starting probably sometime this week I will be getting all the wood to build the stand. My plans for the stand are to build it high enough so that a 20g xtra tall (24" tall) tank will fit into the stand in the center below the main 240g tank. In that 20g tall tank will be a 3d background (I make all my own 3d backgrounds) and it will also have a sand fall (waterfall) in that smaller tank. The small tank will ride on some heavy duty tool chest slides so I can pull it out for tank cleaning. The 240g tank will have a full 3d background as well as some blue cold cathode backlit caves which I have done on some of my other tanks in the past.
The stocking of the 240 will be all the haps you see in one of my 75g's in some of the pictures above. then the 75 g will be moved over for the trophs to give them more room.
Will post updates as I get further into the stand build this week hopefully.
Also since my fish were not shown in the pics very well, here's a short video of most of my fish. Only ones not in the vid are my trophs though, I just got them a couple months ago and the vid was shot before I got them.
Steve
