Justin Opheim
Active Member
So it was awhile back when I lost head a salt water tank. I was new, and only had experience with fresh water prior. The idea of cycling a tank was foreign... everything was foreign.
Fast forward to a couple months back when I decided to give it another go. I joined a local forum and was given the best advice, and that was to watch BRS 52 Weeks of tanking. After many sleepless nights, countless days of watching Ryan go from being uncomfortable in front of a camera to bring fluid and natural now. I think I have learned more then I ever attempted to in the first go around.
I decided that putting up my tank was going to be more then just some tank in a room. I want it to be a center piece of the room whe it is the main focus of relaxation.
So i'm at where I am today. Not to far past planning and just into construction. What my wife use to deem "my fish room" or the room full of "fish #@$", it was a computer room and a room for my musky lures and gear. It was my room, but it wasn't what I really wanted.
Right now it is in the process of being sheet rocked the rest of the way. But he is my plan. An l shaped desk as you walk in to the left. Initial it will be the tank with the desk coming out of the strand as one solid piece. supported under to the wall and with shelving on the other side of the L. I Invision the desk having the look of floating with no effort and the tank there flowing with the wood. My eshopps 200 simo will be located under the stnnd where I will also house the reactors, skimmer and maybe some other things in the future. The tank will be 7in the front of the stand with 6" behind the stand for plumbing (which I plan to hide with a wood accesses panel).
The room will hopefully be transformed into a relaxing office where I can work on my online store, at the same time my son can sit in a recliner relaxing to a movie and the tank.
More pics will come as construction continues and moves into carpentry.
Fast forward to a couple months back when I decided to give it another go. I joined a local forum and was given the best advice, and that was to watch BRS 52 Weeks of tanking. After many sleepless nights, countless days of watching Ryan go from being uncomfortable in front of a camera to bring fluid and natural now. I think I have learned more then I ever attempted to in the first go around.
I decided that putting up my tank was going to be more then just some tank in a room. I want it to be a center piece of the room whe it is the main focus of relaxation.
So i'm at where I am today. Not to far past planning and just into construction. What my wife use to deem "my fish room" or the room full of "fish #@$", it was a computer room and a room for my musky lures and gear. It was my room, but it wasn't what I really wanted.
Right now it is in the process of being sheet rocked the rest of the way. But he is my plan. An l shaped desk as you walk in to the left. Initial it will be the tank with the desk coming out of the strand as one solid piece. supported under to the wall and with shelving on the other side of the L. I Invision the desk having the look of floating with no effort and the tank there flowing with the wood. My eshopps 200 simo will be located under the stnnd where I will also house the reactors, skimmer and maybe some other things in the future. The tank will be 7in the front of the stand with 6" behind the stand for plumbing (which I plan to hide with a wood accesses panel).
The room will hopefully be transformed into a relaxing office where I can work on my online store, at the same time my son can sit in a recliner relaxing to a movie and the tank.
More pics will come as construction continues and moves into carpentry.
