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05/09/2010, 06:04 PM | #1 |
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Show us your sumps/fishrooms
I am looking for some great ideas for fish rooms/good sumps. Please post some pictures of good fishrooms that you have come across, i will post some pics of some well thought out setups
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05/09/2010, 06:14 PM | #2 |
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Teesquare's fish room
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05/09/2010, 06:25 PM | #3 |
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Serpentman's Fishroom
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05/09/2010, 06:43 PM | #4 |
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ChingChai's Beauty
Here are some pics of Chingchai's initial designs,
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05/09/2010, 07:21 PM | #5 |
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i have a sneaking feeling that 'ching-chai' works at a physical plant or perhaps a state aquarium..
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05/09/2010, 07:39 PM | #6 |
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Some pics of the completd work
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05/09/2010, 08:23 PM | #7 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4QI5...eature=related Really i like this video helps describe the designs shown above |
05/09/2010, 08:51 PM | #8 |
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really amazing attention to detail, keep them coming! some amazing stuff so far.
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05/10/2010, 08:49 PM | #9 |
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Totally cool that you think my garage/fish room is right up there with these other guys. Both Teesquare and ChingChai have done amazing work with their equipment setups.
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05/10/2010, 09:28 PM | #10 |
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Bricky, I love your fish Room! I will try and constantly update this thread but its hard with work and everything going on. Feel free to post any pictures of great systems that you may have seen while researching on RC
Here is a few pictures of Marc's fishroom. I miss marc around here. |
05/22/2010, 04:22 PM | #11 |
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As per Rob's request, here are some pics of my fish room. It's not the ideal space, but I am doing what I can with what I've got. It's basically in the furnace room in my basement, and completely separate from the tank, separated by stairway. It's still kind of a mess / work in progress, but we're getting there.
First, the basement layout: This is my very first idea of how things would look, and it's very similar to the way that it turned out. The tank, sump and SW mix are all located where they are in this pic. The frag tank is where the ATO is above, and the ATO is hooked directly into the RO/DI system with a solenoid valve. The QT tank sits just under where the RO/DI hangs in the floor joists of the first floor. The sink is opposite the toilet, located in the furnace / fish room. Here is the view from just inside the door of the basement, looking toward the frag tank, sump etc. Notice the frag tank, BRIGHTER THAN A THOUSAND SUNS: And the view looking from the other side of the sump: The tank drains underneath the stairway, and is split into two on the sump side. The split has two valves, one going to the skimmer portion of the sump, and one to the refugium: Above the drain, I have a manifold with five valves off of the return. Two from one pump and three from the other. The one with two on this end also feeds the frag tank. You can see that valve just behind the fuge light, which is just a standard clip on work light from Lowes with a 6500k daylight power compact flood bulb: The fuge, which the frag tank drains back into via gravity. I have a little bag of carbon on that outlet at the moment to see if it helps reduce some of my organics. I've got a little algae in the frag tank, even though my phosphates test at 0 with a Hannah photometer. Go figure: My wire mess. I don't have everything running through the Aquacontroller Apex yet... but will when I get the cash for another EB8: Here are the plastic shelves that I got at Home Depot. They hold all of my various alchemic potions and such. You can also see buckets of salt, magnesium, calcium and alk mix from Bulk Reef Supply. One day I will have dosing pumps for these, but today, it's all manual: Here's my QT tank. You can see the Regal Angel, but the juvi Majestic is hiding. Behind it is a big Rubbermaid containter that I bought to cure my rock in. Now it's empty and I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with it: Here's the all important de-humidifier: Like I said, still a mess and a work in progress. I am going to grab some hooks and baskets and whatnot for the pegboard to get the organization headed in the right direction here soon. Lighting still sucks too, but I bought some T8 fluorescents to hang recently. Not the best color, but at least it will be brighter. Hope it helps!
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05/22/2010, 04:46 PM | #12 |
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looks good, use the bin for a frag tank
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05/22/2010, 05:42 PM | #13 |
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Reid,
Thanks for posting and thats great! Better than most fish rooms Ive seen. Its functional. can you explain the red and blue hoses and what it does? Im assuming it has something to do with your RO system? |
05/22/2010, 10:18 PM | #14 |
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Looks like a manifold for a house that uses PEX tubing instead of copper.
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05/27/2010, 10:48 PM | #16 |
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wow and i thought i had a bunch of stuff on my tank
all of them are awsome i wish i had a room i could use (maybe another 10 years when my daughter moves out) shes 15 now |
05/28/2010, 12:27 PM | #17 |
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after looking at these pics, I think I may hold off on posting mine!
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sorry i have been extremely busy with work . I will continue to post more fishrooms over the next few days
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04/06/2011, 10:44 AM | #20 |
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I want to ressurect this thread. I watched this unreal video on Youtube about 3 weeks ago and cannot find it for the life of me. If anyone sees any great fishroom videos or pictures, please post them here or provide a link to where we can find them.
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Here's my fishroom. A 12'x16' greenhouse shed that I built. My water flows out from my house to the shed and back.
My 1,100 gallon tub of cheato. Not much attention to detail on my part! I actually cleaned up to take those pictures! Those pictures are from several years ago. I haven't bred clownfish in several years now and you can tell from the towel around the skimmer and I usually have one around my calcium reactor as well that the sunlight wreaks havoc on some things. I'm going to do a rework this summer and move a bunch of stuff to the other side of the shed where it can be out of the sunlight. Here's a picture from when I was building it. I'm hoping to get some much needed revamping done on my tank and convert it to LED lighting this year as well. The big project is going to be getting rid of the brown polyps that have nearly taken over the entire display though.
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WOW guys this thread is loo looking amazing, iam loving it i wish that i had a fish room!!!
i love how some of these rooms are really clean and organized iam a clean freak lol Keep those Fish rooms looking nice and functioning Looking forward to more posts |
04/06/2011, 01:33 PM | #23 |
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Bump for more. npaden do u have a build thread?
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Russter's fish room
Here's pics of mine. It is located in the furnace/laundry room of my house and is separated from the DT by a wall.
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