why do people hide there tanks.
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This is a funny question to even ask, but I'll answer it from my experience:
By having my fish in my garage, I can:
1) have an entire room dedicated to just my fish
2) make a big fish mess and then go inside and make dinner without having to clean it up
3) my tank are so big they'd fall through my subfloor
4) until you make a 45 second boo boo and have a 600 gallon tank over flow a wall of water 4 feet wide and 6 feet tall flowing at a gallon per second, you cannot appreciate what a mess a monster tank can instantly make.
By having my fish in my garage, I can:
1) have an entire room dedicated to just my fish
2) make a big fish mess and then go inside and make dinner without having to clean it up
3) my tank are so big they'd fall through my subfloor
4) until you make a 45 second boo boo and have a 600 gallon tank over flow a wall of water 4 feet wide and 6 feet tall flowing at a gallon per second, you cannot appreciate what a mess a monster tank can instantly make.
Weight of larger aquariums. Far easier to put them in the basement for most of us.
I do find this to be drawback with larger aquariums if the size of the aquarium means the aquarium won't be in a better location.
I do find this to be drawback with larger aquariums if the size of the aquarium means the aquarium won't be in a better location.
For me, having the tanks in the basement makes it all easier. More room upstairs and easy water changes and tank cleaning without having to worry about water getting anywhere and ruining something. In the basement it's a free-for-all.
I live in a small and old house. I keep anything 30 gallons and above on the upper floors. Anything larger than that just takes up too much room and is a structural concern. I also have a huge cement sink in the basement which is perfect for water changes and cleaning things. All the upper floors have carpet, too. Anytime I do a water change on a tank over carpeting upstairs, I have to set up a bunch of fail-safes so as not to ruin anything. Mostly putting down thick plastic sheathing I have.
I live in a small and old house. I keep anything 30 gallons and above on the upper floors. Anything larger than that just takes up too much room and is a structural concern. I also have a huge cement sink in the basement which is perfect for water changes and cleaning things. All the upper floors have carpet, too. Anytime I do a water change on a tank over carpeting upstairs, I have to set up a bunch of fail-safes so as not to ruin anything. Mostly putting down thick plastic sheathing I have.
Some of us need concrete reinforcing bars on the flooring in order to support the tank, and the garage is the only place has rebar reinforcement underneath.
Scorponok;4787059; said:
The floor of my fishroom was actually poured over the cement floor of the old garage. The area directly under the tank was reinforced even further.
My tank which finally came home one week ago will not fit through any doorway. The acrylic tank weights approx 2,000 pounds. The stand constructed out of 3 1/2" tubular steel weighs considerably more.
Back of the tank with two 4' external overflow boxes
We had to reinforce the floor joists to have our 300 gallon tank in our living room. There was absolutely no way the new tank could go on a wood floor. The only possible place to put the new tank was in the garage. We chose to tear the garage down and build a fish room in that spot.
