So here's the plan. Empty the 220, relocate fish to the 75 (remove baffles from the sump so they have room to swim. Build a wall in the dining room.. Construct a stand and a plywood tank (roughly 450 gallons) insert tank into wall.. I will be reinforcing the floors below the tank and making a 'Fish room' in the basement.. All plumbing will run through the floor to the basement.. I'm thinking about putting baffles in the 220 and using that for a sump and keeping the 75 (current sump) for a qt tank.. I also have a empty 40 breeder I can use for something if needed.. The space I have to work with is 10' wide. So I'll have a 2' door on the side of the tank to access behind it if needed. I'm planning on keeping some ray's and shark's mainly while keeping a handful of corals towards the top of the tank.. Sounds like a good time right? If someone could tell me how to post pictures that would be a good start. This is all in the planning stages right now as I have a pile of metal for the stand. I'm not sure about overflows or anything at this point.. I'd like to do a coast to coast internal I think?
450 plywood in wall build
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muttley000
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Is this project moving?
Muttley, i went in a different route, i talked to several people about my flooring and was told that there's no waybmy floors would support that kind of weight.. My house is 100 year's old.. Id have to cut up the concrete in the basement, pour a new thicker footer ,and bascially redo my joists.. Not up for all that work, i found a 300DD tank im picking up next Saturday.. It's 6' x 3' x 27"
muttley000
MTS Sufferer!
I feel your pain as my house was built in 1909! My tanks are all in the basement, and my big future build will be in an addition with provisions made just for it!
