help with Some tips for a new fish room

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migdem

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I am going to create a fish room in my garage. I will take about 30% of the garage space. I will have some 20 gallon tanks and 30 gallon tanks mainly for breeding.

I will also have some vivariums in there too. I will be closing it with a plastic because I do not want the door to be permanent. Is plastic good to insulate the room and do not loose a lot of heat?

Also about water changes I will be preparing water in water tanks is there a good DIY of automatic water change or the best thing is to siphon the water your self to remove any detritus in the bottom and then pump the water in. The new water should be heated or not since mainly I will be having fry?

As a stand what is the best to use? My wife's father told me to make two holes for each aquarium in the wall, use two iron pipes and then use wood to hold the aquariums. Is this good or is it better to use a stand?

I think as for filters the best thing to use is box filters in each aquarium. Is this good? I asking this because I do not want 1 filter to filter all the aquariums because I 1 will be sick I do not wish that all my stock will die!!

As for heaters I will be using 1 on each aquarium hoping that the room will be heated and good insulated.

As for the roof I will have wood. Should it be a problem because I think there will be evaporation in the room and it will be on the wood?

What should I use for lightning?

For now that is it :)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks :)
 
Oh boy sounds like you need a carpenter! The plastic will probably let out @ 80% of heat! Wood and sheet rock is real cheap and easy to tear down. Good luck post some pics
 
Hi migdem,
in Malta our masonry is different from abroad. I used extruded polystyrene (not expanded polystyrene) which I fixed to a wall. You must ensure that there is adequate ventilation and exchange of air to let the humidity out. For heating I will be using a hot water boiler and a stainless steel heat exchanger connected to a sump. I another room I am doing, I will have an outlet from the boiler connected to a fan coil unit that will heat the room. It is an ongoing project so I do not have pix to show for the moment. But I am willing to tell whatever you need.
 
check out www.tedsfishroom.com. He has a few vids of his fishroom with explanations about why he did things. Do much more research before jumping into this adventure. I had to take down my large fishroom in basement because it was too expensive to heat. Had to go from 12 tanks to 5 and save to do it right.

Edit- from 880 gallons to 315 gallons- better explanation.
 
Well I know that this hobby requires time, dedication and MONEY but if it is free I doubt it if it would be any hobby... Until now I have 7 fish aquariums (6 in home 1 in garage) and 4 vivariums (3 in home 1 in garage). I love them :) Now for a fish room in the garage I want to do it mainly because of breeding but the main problem is heating. So I am thinking of getting 3-4 x 30 gallons as a grow out tanks and 4-6 x 20 gallon tanks as breeders. Now i am not that into diy so I think I will go for a heater in each aquarium and try to cover all the tanks with Styrofoam so that it does not loose much heat. What do you think?

As regarding breeding anglefish can I use an aquarium 30cm x 30cm x 36cm or is it too small? (around 8.56 litres)
 
I use a gas boiler (condensing boiler), it is more expensive to buy but it is more efficient than a conventional gas boiler.
 
I am calculating it will be two large lpg bottles per month in dead winter. I will circulate outside air in the summer (the rooms are in a basement and up to now they tay at 20 in summer). What piping are you referring to?
 
the ones that are passing underneath the floor tiles or under the aquariums of the water boiler. About the 2x LPG bottles that is a lot of money. I think it is cheaper to go with heaters because most of the time they will be off if I do the styrofoam around the rack.
 
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