1 Room, many tanks!

[cucci67]

I don't have the 55 gallon yet, I am going to have to buy one for $158 at walmart, or most poeple say they find their tanks in the calassified adds. The onlt ank I saw came with a 9' cobra. It was a 200 gallon tank, but my mom disagreed with the cobra part.

[unthinkable90]

WOA...thats cheap for 55 gallon..i got a 10 gallon for 100$and a 5 gallon for 100$ and my mom pays for it but my step dad dosnt even know i have two tank plus he only thinks i have 2 fish..i keep my 6 gallon in my closet with my goldfish! im so sneaky!also he dosnt know my guppies are going to have babies!!!!!!!!!

[unthinkable90]

im only 13 and have secret pets..and after i do a 21 day trial of chores for a hamster! but i really want one ..but if i miss 1 chores from my daily ones i have to start over im on my 8th day!!

[cucci67]

Well then, you better keep up with those chores . The setup is at walmart. $158 for the tank, filter, heater, hood, light, thermometer. Another $75 for the stand in black.

As for the3 fish room. I just need to know how hard it will be for my dad to run a pipe in the basement. Will I have to have a pump to pump water upward after I dump it down the drain?

[TANKER]

A fish room really isn't all that hard to create. It's really a matter of basic plumbing and space. The mistake alot of people make when setting up a fish room is in trying to maintain to many seperate tanks rather than setting up centralized systems. The benefit to a centralized system is one filter per system to clean rather than 1 or more per tank. Also it is far easier to maintain stability due to the greater water volume of a centralized system. While 6 tanks may sound like alot to you, my sump alone is 500 gallons, which may give you some idea of where I am headed here. Personally I have 53 tanks running, all in racks and centralized. By doing it this way I have limited my maintenance time to roughly 8 hours a week as opposed to the hour per tank per week which is pretty common. Another advantage is in the equipment and power reduction, in filters alone I would be spending a fortune to maintain this many tanks, with just 1 pump tho I have reduced my expenses across the board. Another way I have cut expenses is with a commercial blower to run all my airstones and sponge filters. You get the idea I am sure.

[Damon]

Well its about time you show'd your face around here, Tanker.

[TANKER]

What can I say, been busy tricking the wife into letting me add tanks, hehe. Actually, it's kinda funny, she came home with 11 45 gal tanks just last week. Told her I didn't want to hear another word about me and my tank ventures, hehe.

[AshleytheGreat]

Wowwwwwwww. I want some.

[unthinkable90]

YUppers ..soon i will have a guppy website..but im still workin on it..

[Ownager2004]

Im not sure about putting fish tanks around a pool table, lol. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

[cucci67]

Thats the problem, I eed to get the table moved to another room. That will have to be professionally done, cause the table is extremely heavy, and worth over $10,000. This might be the end of this idea .

[mlefev]

If you hire a professional moving company, they could move the table for about $400-$600 if you can afford it, and have the space elsewhere. The slate on the table would be fine by itself, but you would need a polyeurethane (sp?) varnish/coating on the table to make it resistant to moisture. And I KNOW your parents wouldn't like that idea. I sure wouldn't if it was my pool table. Even with good ventillation (sp..sigh) the wood would be hard pressed to handle the extra moisture very well. You live in new jersey where humid weather is more common than out here, so it "might" be ok, but I wouldn't take the risk. If you can get it moved, you're in good shape.

As far as the plumbing, if the pipes are directly overhead, you're in luck. It's not hard to install a valve, and you can have it branch off individually to each tank, or as was suggested, through a central filter to all of the tanks. Draining it will still be a chore, because you can't make water run uphill into the sewage, but you could carry it out in 5-10 gallon buckets and look at it like good excercise.

[cucci67]

OK, well, I doubt my parents would get the table moved for my plans. And I doubt they would let me keep all those tanks around it. If I could do it without costing any money, or making my parents do any work, they would probably let it go, but that is not how it looks right now. When I get a house of my own I will definatly have a fish room with more tanks then I ever thought I would have. As for now, I wil just wait for an opportunity to open up . If for any reason the table gets moved, my dad did talk about putting it in a different room in the basement. I will deffinately make that room my fish room.

[unthinkable90]

MY GUPPS going to have fry today! cant wait

[mr.dark-saint]

cucci67, you know you might make your room in to the fish room and sleep on the pool table. This way waste water can be hosed off in to a sink vise versa.