Begining of my fish room.

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Well heres the update. I'm progressing, just seems like every day, I come home, find a new problem, then the next day it's buying things to fix it, so I can move on to the thing that was next on the list anyways!

I spent roughly $45 on the lighting for the 300g. Bought the lights from home depot, and they were absolute crap. The lighting of America ones from walmart are much better build quality... I was amazed that home depot would be such crap.

Also spent $22 on Painter's tape, zip ties, and weather stripping.

Total cost of setup so far $67.

Heres a pic of it holding water for 3 days thus far.
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One of my racks in place... Don't knock a picture like this until you've cleaned out a space in your garage for it. It feels like an achievement :P
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Garage door tape. I was leaking air between the panels on the wood door. I'm also leaking around the edges. Tomorrow I'll install weather stripping on the left and ride sides. And take a look at the bottom seal. It looks ok at night, but i'll have to check it out during the day.
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A pic of the first fish to test out the water. A little jurupari.
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IF anyone has any leads. Where is the cheapest place to buy a plug in thermostat. I need one to control my space heater, because it's not turning itself off when its hitting higher temps.
 
FYI - I had a garage fishroom for a while and it got extremely humid... so I got a dehumidifier... which puts off a ton of heat... so much that I didn't need any additional heat in the winter (although my room was very well sealed/insulated)..

Just something to keep in mind as you get more and more water in there...

PS - Looks like a very fun room in the works... I miss mine :( I'll definitely be following your thread and will gladly share anything I've learned typing with mine...
 
nc_nutcase;3363199; said:
FYI - I had a garage fishroom for a while and it got extremely humid... so I got a dehumidifier... which puts off a ton of heat... so much that I didn't need any additional heat in the winter (although my room was very well sealed/insulated)..

Just something to keep in mind as you get more and more water in there...

Yep, I already acquired the dehumidifier. Haven't started running it yet. I'm hoping the dehumidifier and blower combined with lighting will put out enough heat. That would be awesome.

Dehumidifier will get going, as soon as I can run the line outside, cause in my test run on the thing, even without water out there, it turned itself off the first day, just pulling moisture out of the air to begin with.
 
^ Note the PS I was adding as you were responding :D ^
 
I love the dimensions on that first tank....Loike the set up of little tanks too
 
Yeah I had a small fish room in a room in my house. My sheetrock pealed off after a while. Dehumidifier is going to be a necessity. I currently only run 1,000 gallons of water in my house, so not as bad as it use to be.
 
Deepsouth;3363980; said:
Yeah I had a small fish room in a room in my house. My sheetrock pealed off after a while. Dehumidifier is going to be a necessity. I currently only run 1,000 gallons of water in my house, so not as bad as it use to be.
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Kinda has me scared now. Did you have a dehumidifier running when your sheetrock was peeling off the walls?
 
I used Kilz to paint every wall in my fishroom (3 coats or more)... I had surface mildew in a few places where there was little airflow... but in 12 months it didn't get into the walls/ceiling at all...

That experience made me a big fan of Kilz...
 
Gf took the camera to work today. But I got 2 trips to home depot done. Bought a staple gun, broom/dust pan for garage. Reflective insulation for the garage door, and a garage door bottom seal.

Got the seal installed, side weatherstripping installed, reflective insulation installed. and all my fish moved outa the 6x2x18 to the 300g. Not bad for a day off. I got lazy in the second half of the day.

Still need to insulate the window.
 
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