Who has small fish rooms for big tanks?

[Lunchbucket]

I'm still planning out my 4'x4'x20" cube and need to build a fish room. Not sure how much room I can spare in my basement. It is about 1000sq ft. My basement is set up for 2 bedrooms and a bath down there w/ all the other stuff (water heater, softner, furnace, etc). I have one room that I want to blow out a wall and open a room (a third room not one of the 2 bedrooms) up and make a family room where the tank will be. I have an opportunity to use two closet that are back to back so the room would be 32" x 11ft or so. That is a ver narrow room but I can fit 95% of the equipment under the stand.

Anyone have a very small room on a bid tank? Pics, specs, etc please

This is what my basement looks like now

This is what I am thinking of doing

This is the whole basement w/ the wall removed for the living room. There is a label where the tank room might go.

Just wondering if this will be enough room as I can fit all the equipment under my stand except the co2tank and the CL pump and plumbing that comes out the back of the tank

Lunchbucket

 

[tank watch]

I do. I am still working on the room, and the tank was brought in from the garage today. I have a total of 3 feet behind the tank and about 3 feet on one side. Tank is 4 x 8 approx. 600 gallon. Whatever water lines that need to run across this space will be routed into the back corner and then across to the tank side, to avoid blocking the walk. Sorry no pics yet.

 

[MonkeeFish]

your options seem rather endless in the way i look at it.

 

[PJsStuff]

I have one. its about 8x10 im quickly running out of room tho lol. Check the red house for some pics.

 

[Elliott]

I have a small fish room servicing my 300g display, 500g total volume, room is 6' x 8'

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[Kenzy]

Lots of options, heres what I would do:

Extend the closet in the storage room to the full width(9'4") and then split it in half, one half for the bedroom and the other for the storage room. Or does a storage room really need a closet? Reverse the doors so that it opens to the bedroom. Or If the bedroom is just for guests buy a stand up wardrobe big enough for a suitcase of clothes to go into.

Either way I would steal/beg/borrow the bedroom closet and add it to the fish rooms space. (Wheres the frag tank going to go?)

I'm facing the same decisions in about 8 months time.

 

[Lunchbucket]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11640143#post11640143 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kenzy
Lots of options, heres what I would do:

Extend the closet in the storage room to the full width(9'4") and then split it in half, one half for the bedroom and the other for the storage room. Or does a storage room really need a closet? Reverse the doors so that it opens to the bedroom. Or If the bedroom is just for guests buy a stand up wardrobe big enough for a suitcase of clothes to go into.

Either way I would steal/beg/borrow the bedroom closet and add it to the fish rooms space. (Wheres the frag tank going to go?)

I'm facing the same decisions in about 8 months time.

Oh sorry I forgot to clarify. That storage room closet will be the bedroom closet. I will then use the two bedroom closets (remove the wall that is between them) so it is one long room about 3' deep and 11ft long.

That 2nd picture is what it would look like w/ the wall between the closets removed.

That make more sense now?

Lunchbucket

 

[Untamed12]

My 6' x 4' tank and fishroom all occupy a space of exactly 10' x 10'. I suppose this means that the fish room is 4' x 6'.

It is difficult to get a complete photo of it, but here are a few:

The complete build thread is here:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=28436

 

[monti1]

very nice untamed!

 

[Lunchbucket]

untamed that is NICE. I'll check out that thread. So I guess I'm not far off of what quite a few people have. I guess I"ll need to make very efficient use of the space I have. I won't be able to fit a wash sink in there though

Untamed - where did you get those sweet sumps

Please pose more pics of your set ups and your thread builds
Lunchbucket

 

[Kenzy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11644630#post11644630 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lunchbucket
untamed that is NICE.

Untamed - where did you get those sweet sumps

Those tubs make for a very clean set up, where did they come from?

 

[thor32766]

yeah untamed i am jealous. my tank room is under my stand and have a few feet behind the tank for me to walk behind.

 

[Elliott]

I HIGHLY recommend a sink!!!!!!!

 

[PJsStuff]

You dont need a sink. Just a long hose with a pump. Put the hose in the toilet or out the window. Thats what i do.

 

[Untamed12]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11644856#post11644856 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kenzy
Those tubs make for a very clean set up, where did they come from?

Thanks! The PE sumps (as well as the FW tank and the SW mix tank) were all purchased through Plastic-mart.com. They were manufactured by Ronco Plastics in California.

There are lots of places that one can purchase these type of tanks. In my case, the challenge was to find ONE place that I could order ALL the four sizes I needed.

Photos for no particular reason...

 

[Untamed12]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11648488#post11648488 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Elliott
I HIGHLY recommend a sink!!!!!!!

I have to 2nd the sink suggestion. I couldn't live without that sink in the fish room. I use it constantly.

 

[teena]

mine will soon be in my walkin closet,it will be a 210 with a 75g sump,iron stand, maybe 3 to 4 ft of walking room,it will show in the living room,kitchen & bedroom on each end, and backs up to a bathroom,so i can run my drain into the bathroom & i can hook my RO unit up from the kitchen with the ice maker,my big problem im running into is whats the best way to vent such a small closet,