fish room and reef pond build

[Monster reefer]

Hey guys!
Well tonight I have a couple of questions for you.
1st question should I start a fish room/ reef keeping YouTube chennel?

2nd question is a little bit more in depth. So my problem is where to put the ponds.
I have a 10' front to back and 7' left to right space to put the ponds.
I have to fit a work bench that is 25"w X 50"L
The ponds from top of the pond to the bottom
1: 41"L X 30"W X 18"H
2: 70L X 46"W X 19"H odd shaped
3: 65L X 45W X 19H more square shaped

Here are some picture

Both 55 gallons are running

Ok so I have decided the bottom 3 tanks will have HOB filters due to the hight they are at won't allow them to flow to the sumps.
Currently I have 4 tanks on this system running the top two left and the two in the middle left side.

Hard to see with out light but their is a UV staralizer that all the water runs through. The trickle filet is set up but no bio filter but live rock.

Option 1 above

Option 2 above

 

[FarmerTy]

This doesn't answer your immediate question but hopefully you've taken steps to insulate your garage. The central Texas summers are brutal and those ponds have much less ability to resist temperature change than the glass tanks they are replacing.

Your chiller will be working 24/7 at this rate over the hot months, which here in Texas is about 75% of the year. If you're doing this fish room as a for-profit venture, I'd calculate the cost of running a chiller 24/7 for basically 7-8 months out of the year. My guess is it'll take a cookie monster sized bite out of any profits you'll make.

Just food for thought. If it isn't helpful, please disregard.

 

[Monster reefer]

This doesn't answer your immediate question but hopefully you've taken steps to insulate your garage. The central Texas summers are brutal and those ponds have much less ability to resist temperature change than the glass tanks they are replacing.

Your chiller will be working 24/7 at this rate over the hot months, which here in Texas is about 75% of the year. If you're doing this fish room as a for-profit venture, I'd calculate the cost of running a chiller 24/7 for basically 7-8 months out of the year. My guess is it'll take a cookie monster sized bite out of any profits you'll make.

Just food for thought. If it isn't helpful, please disregard.

This is true, I will probably be putting some kind of insulation in the garage doors, the walls of the house have foam insulation so it keeps it cool. But the door does get hot. Yes I hope to get a good fragging setup going.

 

[Monster reefer]

Here is the idea I'm going to go with on the ponds

 

[Monster reefer]

 

[cu455]

Are you able to access all the tanks with the ponds there? It looks very cluttered. Maybe setup 2 systems and move the tanks in the middle of the room against a wall to open things up a little.

 

[Monster reefer]

I can access all but the bottom left 20 gallon tank so I might make it where my air blower will go.

 

[Bunnee911]

The humidity from those ponds is going to be ferocious. I believe i would do a freshwater test run.

 

[dh350twin]

Looks like a lot of work!!!!!

 

[chriscq]

This looks like it's going to be an awesome build! I'm looking forward to seeing it come together.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Fantastic!

We had tanks in our garage and we used Double Refective Insulation from Home Depot on the doors.

We installed a garage cooling system called Vent-A-Garage on our shed. It gets the full belt of the California sun and there were no windows to vent. My sump is outside in this shed, so I needed to cool it down. Without it you couldn't walk in the shed. After this, I could hang out in there in comfort. It's meant to be installed on the garage doors. You set the temperature you would like for the fans to come on and away she goes.

 

[Monster reefer]

Fantastic!

We had tanks in our garage and we used Double Refective Insulation from Home Depot on the doors.

We installed a garage cooling system called Vent-A-Garage on our shed. It gets the full belt of the California sun and there were no windows to vent. My sump is outside in this shed, so I needed to cool it down. Without it you couldn't walk in the shed. After this, I could hang out in there in comfort. It's meant to be installed on the garage doors. You set the temperature you would like for the fans to come on and away she goes.

That's cool, if it starts to get hot and Maggie I am going to install these. Last summer it did not get above 90 in the garage.
The build will be a lot of work but maintenance will not be an issue. I have taking care of close to 2000 gallons of tanks before when I worked for PetCo

 

[Monster reefer]

While you wait for an update here's some corals

 

[Matthew73]

wow everything looks amazing, what's the name of the fist coral the red and white one.

 

[FL_Reefer]

Now that's a mans garage! Great work and can't wait to see it all running

 

[Monster reefer]

wow everything looks amazing, what's the name of the fist coral the red and white one.

It's a red Yuma mushroom.

Now that's a mans garage! Great work and can't wait to see it all running

Thank you

 

[Monster reefer]

I can't wait to get these ponds going they are going to be awesome!

 

[Monster reefer]

Cleaned the ponds out tonight. I also decided that I'm going to make the bottom pond 24" tall.

 

[Monster reefer]

Just added my bio ball supplement to the drip filter.
And started to work on my pond stand!

 

[Monster reefer]

Still working on my fish room build, but I just had to add this amazing fish from my 180 gallon.