New Fishroom - Garage or Bedroom????

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yogurt_21;3460801; said:
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.
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This is kind of the way that I'm leaning. If I didn't have so much junk in the garage I would make that the fish room. I have tons of bikes and junk in general in the garage at the moment. The one true advantage of me using the garage is that I could put my 180 gallon double stand in there instead of the living room. But honestly it doesn't look too bad in there. I was going to sell the double rack, but didn't have any luck. Here is a picture of it.

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I love that stand! Is the filter system combined? So the water flows from top to bottom, top tank to second tank to sump?
 
Filteration is combined. One sump runs both tanks. Tanks drain directly into the sump.
 
One more question, to support the upper tank is that a 2X6 across the front? Sorry about the derail, I have two 125's I was thinking about double stacking but I was worried about the upper tank spanning with out some kind of vertical support holding it up in the middle, of course this would block the view of the lower tank. I see you were successful and with larger tanks!

Thanks man.
 
2x4, but it does have plywood as well that provides indirect support. I know a guy that has 125 doubles that he built with 2x4s. Aquarium Maintenance specialist in Atlanta. He has pictures on cyphos.com
 
you have a beautiful setup with those two 180 and yes i change my mind keep them in the house for show and everything else goes in the garage where you can make them even better.
 
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