iplumbsome
Active Member
Hello all
My name is Mark and I am a 45 year old plumber in Southeastern WI. About 12 years ago I had a 120 gallon FOWLR tank. I bought everything from a big box pet store so of course I did most things wrong, but I learned along the way mostly from a site similar to this one. Certain life events got in the way and I was forced to tear down and sell my equipment.
Fast forward to today we just got done building a new house and I planned on putting a new build in my basement built into the wall with a fish/mech. room behind it. I picked up an acrylic tank that measures 84"L x 24"D x 30"H. It also can with a sump and refugium both of which seem to be about 40-50 gallons. I bought this set up second hand and I have a couple boxes of pumps, dosers, etc. that I haven't even gone through yet. So if money and time permits this winter I would like to set up MY ultimate fish room and display tank. Since I am a plumber and my mech. room is my favorite room in the house I really want the plumbing well planned out.
I am sure I am going to have a lot of questions as I have forgotten a lot of what I learned so many years ago and it seems a lot has changed since than as I am finding out. Not sure which route I want to go with this build yet as far as the display goes. I love the look of a reef, but at this point not all that interest in learning about them. I think this will start out as a FOWLR with reef safe fish and move towards the coral down the road as time permits.
Since I am starting from scratch and can do what I want at this point I am interested in making maintenance as easily and quickly as possible. I am interested in how some of you have your systems piped up. I have some ideas about a salt mixing station and also a quarantine tank. Show me what you have.
My name is Mark and I am a 45 year old plumber in Southeastern WI. About 12 years ago I had a 120 gallon FOWLR tank. I bought everything from a big box pet store so of course I did most things wrong, but I learned along the way mostly from a site similar to this one. Certain life events got in the way and I was forced to tear down and sell my equipment.
Fast forward to today we just got done building a new house and I planned on putting a new build in my basement built into the wall with a fish/mech. room behind it. I picked up an acrylic tank that measures 84"L x 24"D x 30"H. It also can with a sump and refugium both of which seem to be about 40-50 gallons. I bought this set up second hand and I have a couple boxes of pumps, dosers, etc. that I haven't even gone through yet. So if money and time permits this winter I would like to set up MY ultimate fish room and display tank. Since I am a plumber and my mech. room is my favorite room in the house I really want the plumbing well planned out.
I am sure I am going to have a lot of questions as I have forgotten a lot of what I learned so many years ago and it seems a lot has changed since than as I am finding out. Not sure which route I want to go with this build yet as far as the display goes. I love the look of a reef, but at this point not all that interest in learning about them. I think this will start out as a FOWLR with reef safe fish and move towards the coral down the road as time permits.
Since I am starting from scratch and can do what I want at this point I am interested in making maintenance as easily and quickly as possible. I am interested in how some of you have your systems piped up. I have some ideas about a salt mixing station and also a quarantine tank. Show me what you have.
