Finally starting this build thread.
Brief history. Purchased my first tank, a 220gallon Marineland with dual corner overflows, back in 2015. I jumped right into the "big tanks" and loved it from the beginning. My wife and I converted a basement bedroom into a fish tank room and put this tank in the wall opening up to a family room. We had your typical reef safe fish, corals, etc. We went thru all the typical first time hobbyists problems (algae, wet floors, overfeeding, ich from non-quarantine, etc) but throughly enjoyed the hobby. Ill have to admit the ich outbreak was the worst and is the one problem that taught me the most.
Fast forward a few years to November 2020. My wife and I sold our old house and bought a new one. We moved the old tank to the new house as the buyers didnt want it at all. We had planned on this all along, but for the right price, we would have sold it with the house. We had a few things that needed done in the new house, new laundry room, new half bath, etc. Once I completed those projects, we started on the fish tank room. The new house had a very small 2 car garage that wouldnt fit either of our vehicles. In the one corner of the garage, the previous owner had put in an ADA compliant full bathroom complete with wheelchair roll in shower stall. This was part of the reason the garage was so small. So our plan was to tear out that bathroom, extend this new tank room into the garage and put a new larger tank in the wall overlooking the living room.
Brief history. Purchased my first tank, a 220gallon Marineland with dual corner overflows, back in 2015. I jumped right into the "big tanks" and loved it from the beginning. My wife and I converted a basement bedroom into a fish tank room and put this tank in the wall opening up to a family room. We had your typical reef safe fish, corals, etc. We went thru all the typical first time hobbyists problems (algae, wet floors, overfeeding, ich from non-quarantine, etc) but throughly enjoyed the hobby. Ill have to admit the ich outbreak was the worst and is the one problem that taught me the most.
Fast forward a few years to November 2020. My wife and I sold our old house and bought a new one. We moved the old tank to the new house as the buyers didnt want it at all. We had planned on this all along, but for the right price, we would have sold it with the house. We had a few things that needed done in the new house, new laundry room, new half bath, etc. Once I completed those projects, we started on the fish tank room. The new house had a very small 2 car garage that wouldnt fit either of our vehicles. In the one corner of the garage, the previous owner had put in an ADA compliant full bathroom complete with wheelchair roll in shower stall. This was part of the reason the garage was so small. So our plan was to tear out that bathroom, extend this new tank room into the garage and put a new larger tank in the wall overlooking the living room.