New Fishroom - Garage or Bedroom????

[Loubard]

Garage for shure. To many fish tanks in the bedroom make it more a fish room than a bed room..

 

[Deepsouth]

Throw away all your yard stuff, hire a lawn service and convert garage into a kickin man/fish room. Kegorator big screen and tanks. My wife likes to think we are not white trash, just white clutter!

This idea does sound appealing.

 

[Deepsouth]

I would say garage as well, but how well is it insulated? What about the summer time when its 90F-100F outside? Winter time when its 30F-50F?

Unless you can afford to run expensive chillers and have a few large fans it's going to be difficult. You also might need a few heaters in 1 tank just for the winter time.

The Garage doesn't have any AC/heat which was another concern.

 

[PeacockBassMan]

you can find room heaters at a Lowes or Home Depot for less than 100 Bucks for the winter time. You can plug them directly into the wall rather than hard wiring them. For the summer when its blistering outside, depending on expenses and your wife's approval, a window AC unit would do the trick given that you arent opening and leaving your garage door open for 8 hours a day. You could cut a hole for a unit in your wall, or just build a contraption that allows the water from the unit to drain away and set it up on a table. Ive done this before and it worked just fine.

 

[Deepsouth]

I'm leaning towards making the guest bedroom into a fishroom. Its only 10'6" x 11' though. I will probably keep the double stack 180s inthe living room. I will also keep the 240 in the bedroom. My other son didn't wan't to move his 75G to the fish room. So the fishroom wont be too overstocked. I setup a double stack 55 gallon setup in the guest room last night for temporary purposes. I may add a few 75 gals and bring all of my small tanks in there as well. Currently I have atlease one tank in everyone room in my house and 4 tanks in my master bedroom. I'm definately white clutter/ possibly even full blown white trash. If I move most of those tanks in my master bedroom to the fish room it would make the house look better. I do love all of my fish eye balling me when I wake up in the morning though. My Trimac just sits there looking at me, like quit pressing the snoooze button you lazy punk!

 

[Deepsouth]

you can find room heaters at a Lowes or Home Depot for less than 100 Bucks for the winter time. You can plug them directly into the wall rather than hard wiring them. For the summer when its blistering outside, depending on expenses and your wife's approval, a window AC unit would do the trick given that you arent opening and leaving your garage door open for 8 hours a day. You could cut a hole for a unit in your wall, or just build a contraption that allows the water from the unit to drain away and set it up on a table. Ive done this before and it worked just fine.

My home owners assocation wont let me have window AC units etc. Great ideas though.

 

[CornBread]

just use your garage dont think of anywhere else just the garage because you can get a shed for everything and the weight of the tanks and everything in them wont effect the house' fountation. and besides the garage can be a cool place in fall and spring where you can just lift the door save some money on heat and light and show off your wonderful hobby. Enjoy it but dont let it take over your home. Now what i have done is in my families house that we will be moving to in the next month is that i have a grotto slash pool house with a cement fountaition and thats where all my world and hobbies will go next to my homemade pond

 

[Egon]

I already get this with the double 180 stack in the living room. Then they go to my bedroom where I have an 8'x2' 240, a 75, 20, and a 10. Then they hit my sons room where he has a 75. Then they hit the garage area and see 2 55s and a couple of 30s. Don't get me wrong my house is about 2700 sq feet not including the garage, so it is a tad roomy, but I do look like white trash. Every time someone comes over they think I'm some kind of weirdo.

I think this happens to all true MFKers

 

[Deepsouth]

just use your garage dont think of anywhere else just the garage because you can get a shed for everything and the weight of the tanks and everything in them wont effect the house' fountation. and besides the garage can be a cool place in fall and spring where you can just lift the door save some money on heat and light and show off your wonderful hobby. Enjoy it but dont let it take over your home. Now what i have done is in my families house that we will be moving to in the next month is that i have a grotto slash pool house with a cement fountaition and thats where all my world and hobbies will go next to my homemade pond

Your setup sounds like the ideal situation. Pool house kind of room would be awesome.

 

[yogurt_21]

My garage is for tools, workbench, and for parking cars. if I put all my fish in there I'd ahve no place to work on stands, lighting, canopies, or any other projects.

I vote spare room with 1 display tank in the main living room. I did this with my den actually. display tank in the living room with my favorites fish and best looking decor/setup (and it's the silent one), den for all the other tanks in progress, ghetto style, or just not as good looking as the main display tank.

this means that anyone just comign in sees the one display tank and you can sho off your fish keeping skills with your most impressive specimens. then if they're the type who are wierd and don't like fish you can for go showing them the spare room.

but you must understand, they're the wierdos, not you.