fish room. electricity....

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so now im building a room within the garage wich gives me a reason to make new racks that hold more tanks. room will be 11x22. glad the only car i park in there is my bug and ill have to park it at an angle after room is built. what are good pumps that i can run plumbing off of? ill have 18 20s on 1 wall. and 12 60s on the other. ill have a 6x2x2 and 5x2x18 on end walls. also any ideas on floor coatings that arent as cold as concrete? im looking at a solar heater to cut costs durring the day. anyone have a diagram of a central plumbing system? i need some ideas, what size bulkheads for exit? oh and i need a huge airpump! first time building anything like this. all my tanks have heaters, filters, powerheads....
 
Reeflo series pumps are amazing for powerwul pumps and low draw. A hammerhead will pump about 5500gph@5' head while drawing 320w. A Dart will do about 3kgph@5' head while pulling 170w.

Check into them.
 
When my fishroom was in my garage, I built a room around the fish racks out of 4' x 8' sheets of thick styro (taped together at the seams). I used a space heater to keep the temps at 76 or so...

Matt
 
Burko;4703704; said:
"I had this problem and this is what I did.
I built a stand/small room around my tanks that are insulated."

Yeah insulating around the tanks and dressing it with wood is a great idea. Glass is very poor insulation, from memory, wood is itself 20 times better.


"I have no heaters in my tanks and they are staying around 72 degrees."

So where does the heat come from? Just the lights and pumps?
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The pumps do most of the heating, which may be a problem in the summer but I plan on stealing the vent from my laundry room and putting it in the ''fish room''to cool it in the summer.
 
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