Hi everyone,
It has been a long time since I have stopped by and said hi. Sad to say but life working at Intel has really slowed me setting up my fish room, but I have been making a lot of progress and wanted to show off some.
(Hopefully some folks remember me ;-)
Anyways I ended up buying a house in Oregon right when I got here, but before I put up tanks I made the call to redo the basement with the sole intent of keeping the house healthy while fishkeeping... (Note this entire thread is a multi-year escapade...)
Before:
During:
Then it took me a while to get custom stand's/tanks made.
After (verifying stands fit...)
Some of the tanks:
Putting 1 rack together. (Got this one going last year.)
Now I am working on the second rack of 720 gallons:
Filtration is a bit crazy, but I have it all setup so I can do water changes with a twist of a valve. Soon it will also have a water drip system. (All tanks are setup so that if they get too much water it auto drains with no concern of water getting all over the place + fishroom is setup to be able to hold 240 gallons of water in the epoxy sealed floor, I have curved walls with epoxy going up ~4 inches ;-)
All plumbing to the tanks are good. Just working on filtration side:
Note this filtration room is behind the fish room. It works really well to keep the fish room quite, but I will still be putting sound damping boxes around the pumps once I get all 4 going.
Hopefully in a week or 2 I will get to move in the middle racks. Those are "smaller" tanks, going to keep them separate/use bubble based filtration. All intended for breading.
And a quick crud camera phone shot of some of the fish in the 240... Eventually I will need to split them out. (Lets see how many pike folks here know them, saw them and just had to grab them...)
It has been a long time since I have stopped by and said hi. Sad to say but life working at Intel has really slowed me setting up my fish room, but I have been making a lot of progress and wanted to show off some.
(Hopefully some folks remember me ;-)
Anyways I ended up buying a house in Oregon right when I got here, but before I put up tanks I made the call to redo the basement with the sole intent of keeping the house healthy while fishkeeping... (Note this entire thread is a multi-year escapade...)
Before:
During:
Then it took me a while to get custom stand's/tanks made.
After (verifying stands fit...)
Some of the tanks:
Putting 1 rack together. (Got this one going last year.)
Now I am working on the second rack of 720 gallons:
Filtration is a bit crazy, but I have it all setup so I can do water changes with a twist of a valve. Soon it will also have a water drip system. (All tanks are setup so that if they get too much water it auto drains with no concern of water getting all over the place + fishroom is setup to be able to hold 240 gallons of water in the epoxy sealed floor, I have curved walls with epoxy going up ~4 inches ;-)
All plumbing to the tanks are good. Just working on filtration side:
Note this filtration room is behind the fish room. It works really well to keep the fish room quite, but I will still be putting sound damping boxes around the pumps once I get all 4 going.
Hopefully in a week or 2 I will get to move in the middle racks. Those are "smaller" tanks, going to keep them separate/use bubble based filtration. All intended for breading.
And a quick crud camera phone shot of some of the fish in the 240... Eventually I will need to split them out. (Lets see how many pike folks here know them, saw them and just had to grab them...)
