What room holds all your aquariums?
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I have a room that's attached to my garage 
It's a nice room though with plaster walls & a painted concrete floor. It has power, lights & air-conditioning & i'm thinking of getting a sink plumbed in as well.
so halfway between the house & garage for me!
It's a nice room though with plaster walls & a painted concrete floor. It has power, lights & air-conditioning & i'm thinking of getting a sink plumbed in as well.so halfway between the house & garage for me!
dem0n;2252902; said:I have a room that's attached to my garage
so halfway between the house & garage for me!
Man you have the best of both worlds.
Ok I just got of the phone with my dad (AKA Builder). Although he is about 70 he knows a heck of alot more about construction than me. I talked to him about the fish room and he is coming down this weekend so that we can knock it out. The room will be 10.5' wide and 20' long. I will make sure that I put a door in that is atleast 42" wide, so that I can get a monster tank later. I will take some photos and keep everyone posted.
I had to search forever to find a huge dresser so that I could put a big tank in the bedroom. 72x18 was the biggest, so I put a 135 in there... still need to build the canopy. I got lucky though, it matches the wood in the room perfectly, and I love having it set up out away from the wall too... I can toss clothes and stuff behind it near the closet and the room still looks clean. And there's a couch at the foot of the bed to sit on and watch the fish. To me it's a perfect setup.
But I also have a 110 and 75 out in the kitchen/living/dining area (in Chicago architecture the buildings are only 18-20 feet wide and the main rooms are all open together) and various fry/hospital tanks either hidden underneath or hidden in the 2nd bedroom closet. So they're pretty much everywhere.
When we buy I'm getting a house with a finished basement and reducing the open living area by whatever amount of space is necessary to house a 1000+ build with a room behind it for plumbing and growout/hospital tanks. But there'll still be the nice tanks all over the house. A good tank and stand is like a piece of furniture, it's worth having them spread out, even if its more work.
(To answer the one question about how we have them in our rooms - silent canisters. I had Eheims and couldn't hear a thing. Added an FX5 and it is a barely audible hum, nothing that I ever notice.)
That's great that you're going to get help and build a room off the garage. Great thinking about the wide door too.
But I also have a 110 and 75 out in the kitchen/living/dining area (in Chicago architecture the buildings are only 18-20 feet wide and the main rooms are all open together) and various fry/hospital tanks either hidden underneath or hidden in the 2nd bedroom closet. So they're pretty much everywhere.
When we buy I'm getting a house with a finished basement and reducing the open living area by whatever amount of space is necessary to house a 1000+ build with a room behind it for plumbing and growout/hospital tanks. But there'll still be the nice tanks all over the house. A good tank and stand is like a piece of furniture, it's worth having them spread out, even if its more work.
(To answer the one question about how we have them in our rooms - silent canisters. I had Eheims and couldn't hear a thing. Added an FX5 and it is a barely audible hum, nothing that I ever notice.)
That's great that you're going to get help and build a room off the garage. Great thinking about the wide door too.
