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I am in Royal Oak, hope you enjoyed the recent foot and a half of snow! The only problem with this room is that's it's 60 yrs old and hasn't been used in over 30 years, so it is in very poor conditions!

Those are all very encouraging words! I am cleaning it up this weekend, repainting, and soon getting some tile work done on the floor. Let me talk to an electrician and see what to do about the rewiring. I plan to use Bond-crete for the insides of the tank. I am in no rush, I will chip away at...

I agree. This definitely needs a lot of time and money, and we might be better off with something lower maintenance like reptiles. Oh well.

@coralbandit Yes, it is cold in that room. I am wondering if this will turn into a money pit. I have kept 50 - 60 gallons tanks before, but nothing of this scale, and they were all in well ventilated and heated areas. I might be better off keeping reptiles!

The tanks are against the wall, no gap. Here are some more pics, not sure if they help. Tanks haven't been cleaned yet, so don't mind the clutter.

Here are the close ups. And yes, we were originally planning to run a sump in one of the tanks. But now, we are concerned about the humidity and not sure if filling all three tanks with water is such a good idea. And yes, the seals do seem shot, will recaulking do the trick or do we have to do...

More of a display tank gallery. I don't think we are ready to breed anything yet :blink: Not sure if we want to tear down everything... how about using just one tank? Think the humidity will stay under control?

Yes, each tank has glass held by a metal frame. Everything else is concrete.

We recently bought a house in Southeast Michigan. The house came with what looks like an old fish room, pic attached. The numbers on the tanks are the capacities in gallons. The previous owners did not use it, so it has not been used in about 30 years. We wanted to evaluate starting our own...