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Do you have a room dedicated to aquariums and other hobbies?

I am starting the build on a two car carport closed in to make an aquarium room and man cave.

Would love to see some pics with furnished rooms not just racks of tanks.

Like a man cave or she shed.

Let's see what you have!
 

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Nothing crazy and not furnished yet but just starting on mine in the basement. 40g in wall upgrading to 75 in the near future :) The tank is under the stairs so doesn't take up any extra space for us

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Nothing crazy and not furnished yet but just starting on mine in the basement. 40g in wall upgrading to 75 in the near future :) The tank is under the stairs so doesn't take up any extra space for us

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HATE drywall work, but LOVE in wall tanks. Nice work!
 

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100% agree, such a mess. Thank you :)
 

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I turned a room in my basement into my fish room. Built tank racks that hold 2 levels of tanks, 1 holds 3. I currently have 16 tanks running. 1- sw dt, 1-sw qt, and 13 fresh. I bread German blue rams, electric blue acaras and 4 colors of shrimp. When this all took off at the beginning of Covid (had 3 small tanks then), I had just finished redoing the room as a small family room. If I would have known I was going to start a fish room, I would have put drains in for automatic water changes and drilled all the tanks. Would have been a huge game changer. Takes 1 whole day to do water changes. I also learned that big tanks are just as easy to clean as small tanks. I had multiple 40bs and have replaced 4 of them for 2-125s (grow out tanks). I keep 3- 32g brutes full of water (2 rodi and 1 salt). I will be pulling the tub out of the bathroom and replacing it with a restaurant style deep sink with sides on it for cleaning equipment. I am on a well and all my freshwater is mixed 50/50 with rodi. I keep a large stock tank out the back door of my walk out basement to dump used tank water in, then pump it to plants and grass when full, its froze solid now, so I just dump in the rocks during winter. I put in a large, quiet bathroom exhaust fan in the center of the room with a humidity controlled switch, although it never kicks on in colorado. I just turn it on when I’m in the fish room.
here are a couple photos. Don’t mind the mess, today I am swapping my 75 sw for a 120 And have tanks staged to hold the contents during the swap. 6831838B-FDDA-457E-A395-AE4DF93A9D8E.jpeg
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I turned a room in my basement into my fish room. Built tank racks that hold 2 levels of tanks, 1 holds 3. I currently have 16 tanks running. 1- sw dt, 1-sw qt, and 13 fresh. I bread German blue rams, electric blue acaras and 4 colors of shrimp. When this all took off at the beginning of Covid (had 3 small tanks then), I had just finished redoing the room as a small family room. If I would have known I was going to start a fish room, I would have put drains in for automatic water changes and drilled all the tanks. Would have been a huge game changer. Takes 1 whole day to do water changes. I also learned that big tanks are just as easy to clean as small tanks. I had multiple 40bs and have replaced 4 of them for 2-125s (grow out tanks). I keep 3- 32g brutes full of water (2 rodi and 1 salt). I will be pulling the tub out of the bathroom and replacing it with a restaurant style deep sink with sides on it for cleaning equipment. I am on a well and all my freshwater is mixed 50/50 with rodi. I keep a large stock tank out the back door of my walk out basement to dump used tank water in, then pump it to plants and grass when full, its froze solid now, so I just dump in the rocks during winter. I put in a large, quiet bathroom exhaust fan in the center of the room with a humidity controlled switch, although it never kicks on in colorado. I just turn it on when I’m in the fish room.
here are a couple photos. Don’t mind the mess, today I am swapping my 75 sw for a 120 And have tanks staged to hold the contents during the swap. 6831838B-FDDA-457E-A395-AE4DF93A9D8E.jpeg
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Nice job!
 

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What doe the large pvc in ceiling do? I may have missed it sorry...
I turned a room in my basement into my fish room. Built tank racks that hold 2 levels of tanks, 1 holds 3. I currently have 16 tanks running. 1- sw dt, 1-sw qt, and 13 fresh. I bread German blue rams, electric blue acaras and 4 colors of shrimp. When this all took off at the beginning of Covid (had 3 small tanks then), I had just finished redoing the room as a small family room. If I would have known I was going to start a fish room, I would have put drains in for automatic water changes and drilled all the tanks. Would have been a huge game changer. Takes 1 whole day to do water changes. I also learned that big tanks are just as easy to clean as small tanks. I had multiple 40bs and have replaced 4 of them for 2-125s (grow out tanks). I keep 3- 32g brutes full of water (2 rodi and 1 salt). I will be pulling the tub out of the bathroom and replacing it with a restaurant style deep sink with sides on it for cleaning equipment. I am on a well and all my freshwater is mixed 50/50 with rodi. I keep a large stock tank out the back door of my walk out basement to dump used tank water in, then pump it to plants and grass when full, its froze solid now, so I just dump in the rocks during winter. I put in a large, quiet bathroom exhaust fan in the center of the room with a humidity controlled switch, although it never kicks on in colorado. I just turn it on when I’m in the fish room.
here are a couple photos. Don’t mind the mess, today I am swapping my 75 sw for a 120 And have tanks staged to hold the contents during the swap. 6831838B-FDDA-457E-A395-AE4DF93A9D8E.jpeg
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Awesome Paul! I particularly like the poster.
That poster is from 1986 and thats how long I have it. That girl is probably a Grand Mother now.
It's an advertisement for a Makita jig saw.

I'm sure it's not PC now but I am old and I like that picture and don't care. :cool:

 
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That poster is from 1986 and thats how long I have it. That girl is probably a Grand Mother now.
It's an advertisement for a Makita jig saw.

I'm sure it's not PC now but I am old and I like that picture and don't care. :cool:


we both have the same attitude. I’m over 50 and don’t care.
 

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One of the views in my basement when I’m sitting in front of my tank. Granite bar tops are coming but even now, it’s not a bad view….


corey
 

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