The Fishroom and All Things Fish

[roundar]

This will probably end up being a sort of catch-all thread for general fish stuff, but I'm going to start by introducing my new fishroom. I've been working on it for a couple weeks and taking pictures along the way. The fishroom is adjacent to the office. This was all one big room beforehand and I put up the wall and removed a closet that was in where the fishroom was going. The common wall (between the office and fishroom) has a hole in it where a 75g will sit in the fishroom, and be "in-wall" in the office. This will provide plenty of room to work in and around the 75 without having to cram the auto-dosers, co2, filter, etc. in the stand. The plan with the rest of the room is to have some fun breeding fish while attending school, and maybe even make a little money on the side. The room is only 120 square feet, but with a wall full of tanks I think it will be plenty for what I want to do. So, to the part you guys actually care about, annotated pictures:

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This one's before I installed the mold resistant sheetrock. You'll notice the stand pretty much gets moved around the whole time I'm working in here because the office was a little crammed from moving in some new chairs etc.:

After the sheetrock and paint:

The 'in-wall' part. I still have to put trim up, but I'm going to do that once I get the tank in so I can see exactly where to place the trim so that it covers the plastic trim on the tank:

The door...:

And the room before any shelving. You'll notice I kinda lazied out on putting trim up in there...:

 

[jetajockey]

the in wall tank is going to rock.

 

[Somethingclever]

the in wall tank is going to rock.

I agree. Maybe i'll have him come build one for meh

 

[mfdrookie516]

You're probably the only person that'll get this... but... very cool

 

[HN1]

Very nice start!

 

[lamiskool]

goodluck! cant wait to see this thing finished

 

[ChizerBunoi]

Awesome. Happy to hear about the co2 cylinder also.

 

[severum mama]

Looks great but.... NEED MOAR PICS!

 

[roundar]

Ok, so a few things have happend. I got the shelves up and got the sink installed. Sill plenty to do. I also made some sponge filters today. Total cost of the sponge filter is <$3. EDIT: Ohh I got my platinum guppies(some of which are swallow tail, they look great) in yesterday, they're still juvies otherwise I'd work harder at getting decent picks.

The <$3 sponge filter, about 15 minute construction time

 

[fouldsy]

That's looking really nice and clean I like your solution for tank stands too! I haven't seen that idea before.

 

[roundar]

That's looking really nice and clean I like your solution for tank stands too! I haven't seen that idea before.

Yeah, they're really sturdy, cheap, and it would be relatively easy to rearrange them.

 

[fouldsy]

Sure, they look it. So the breeze blocks aren't cemented together? How are you, if at all, attaching the 2x4's?

 

[roundar]

I'm not, I made sure they were level first, and because of the size of everything it's not even necessary.

 

[fouldsy]

Ok, cool. Thanks. I figured that certainly the middle 2x4's would be comfortably held in place by the breeze blocks above them.

 

[roundar]

Meant to post this one too.

 

[jetajockey]

looking good. Maybe someday i'll get motivated to do my cinder block stand also =]

Tanks on the floor? How's your back?

 

[DrConnie]

This is going to be fantastic! Looking forward to more pictures!

 

[tractorholic]

fish tank room

Man, I'm so jealous I can't stand it. Your room looks so cool, and all those tanks..............wow. I'm not allowed much room in our house, so my large tanks are sitting empty for the moment. In the end I'll win though. Thanks for the pics and story. Motivates me big time.

 

[roundar]

Not much changed on the fishroom front. Waiting on fish/plants for the 75, so in the meantime I thought I'd post some pics of the fish that currently populate the fishroom. They've still got some growing to do, but here they are:

 

[redsea]

Very nice! I wish I could have a whole room dedicated to fish, that would be awesome!