Thoughts and ideas

Truebluereefs · Sep 27, 2013

I wanted to see what everyone's thoughts were on a fish room. I will be moving into a new home in about a year or less.
Im wanting to put an in wall aquarium.
The room is 10X9 foot the wall that is on the same side as the living room is 9 foot, I'm trying to figure out if I should go with 5 or 6 long aquarium.
I know that I want to go with a depth of around 4 foot.
I am also wanting to add more aquariums in the room besides the the large aquarium.

Let me know your thoughts.

Truebluereefs · Sep 27, 2013

I don't want to go 4' deep I'm sorry I meant to put 3 foot. That way I can get a good amount of hight on the rocks. I'm looking at buying maybe 2 x 130 gallon aquariums and using the long sides witch are 72" long so that would give me 3 feet of wall left but no room for the door to open into the room. Unless I move the hinge to the other side.(that would work) I'm also looking at doing a wood bottom for the aquarium using pond armor to seal the wood. That way I could cut down on the cost of glass.
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To address the space for the aquarium and the equipment I have a room that is 10'X9' 8" so their is a good amount of space. I will also have the in wall aquarium sitting about 36 inches or 48 inches high so that when I get a couch in the living room I want have any of the fish tank covered by the back or sides of the chairs. At this hight I will be able to place 3 tanks underneath one will be my chemical filter and skimmer, the next one will be an auto top off system tank and the third tank will be a refugium/ return pump. Also the room backs up to a downstairs bathroom so I could add drain lines into the room or even a sink.

Truebluereefs · Oct 2, 2013

Dustin1300 · Oct 2, 2013

If you like tangs/triggers I'd get the six foot tank. How tall are you wanting to make the tank?

Truebluereefs · Oct 2, 2013

I was thinking any where from 24-36 inches

Zero Nitrates · Oct 2, 2013

Sounds awesome!

Oliver_Klosoff · Oct 2, 2013

Just asking because I don't know of course but above you said you were looking to put a wooden floor in your tank sealed with Pond Armor. Are you planing on having glass walls or a full plywood tank with only the front glass? If you are going with all glass walls my question is will you be able to seal the glass well enough to the bottom in order to keep it from leaking or worse having a blow out? Have you done this before? I have a 120g with the bottom out of it and I was thinking about trying the same thing.

Truebluereefs · Oct 3, 2013

I have not done this befor it will be my first build. Kinda scary if you think about it but. I have sent the aquarium built be for and filled with watering fish.Aquariums

Oliver_Klosoff · Oct 3, 2013

Nice maybe I will give this a try too. Let us know how it goes for you.

Truebluereefs · Oct 6, 2013

Happy sundy everyone.
For the past couple of days I have been looking for lights to place above the aquarium, I came a cross a site that said that a 400w metal halides will cover a 3 foot circle of area so to cover the 6X6 foot aquarium I would need 4. But that's like $100 a month for each bulb, but I don't make that much money to run the lights at that price. I ended up looking into Led lighting, but I have not found anything good saying that LEDs will be just as good for growing corals and giving them color.
I run LEDs on my 15 gallon tall but I can't place any SPS in the aquarium because they all bleach I have SPS ion may 70 gallon that has 4X T5Ho and I keep SPS just fun but not great color.
So I'm trying to figure out what LEDs would be best to cover the aquarium and have good color and groth.
I've seen the Led cannon but I don't know of anyone who is running them on their systems, they also cost about $700 each.