Well my wife wanted to move closer to work. The 2.5 hours a day in the car was wearing on her. I said ok as long as I had a place to put a tank. Preferrably in the wall. Well with the unstable market and having a home for sale in a neighborhood with new homes still being built we finally sold our old home. What a relief to not have two mortgages to take care of.
We built our home from scratch so I was able to plan on an in wall tank. I extended a closet to give more room behind the tank. I also had a beam header put across the tank viewing wall so that I could knock out any studs on that wall that I wanted to. I had a sink installed so that I could easily clean stuff up without walking through the house with something wet. I wanted to have a floor drain installed but builder wouldn't do it so I had to come up with another plan to show later.
Here is the room during rough plumbing. As you can see there is double doors leading into the fish room leaving plenty of room to move in the big tank and stand. The fish room is 11' x 4' with one ending having a bullnose that kind of takes up some of the space.
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And the rough plumbing for the utility sink.
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This has been a long build and still plenty to be done. It started pretty much in August of 2007. I got the tank on August 17th. It is custom built by Deep Sea Aquatics. They are the former custom tank builders from Oceanic that split off and made their own company instead of moving up north to Oceanics new location. I think they like the weather in Texas better. I picked this company cause they are the only ones that build stainless steel framed tanks. Their guarantee is also awesome at 7 yrs. They have never had one their stainless steel framed tanks ever leak even while they were building them with Oceanic. My tank is 72" x 30" x 31.5" and has a stainless steel frame. 30" from front to back is so nice to work with for aquascaping and adds a lot visually. It also has dual corner overflows that each contain 1.5" drain and two 1" returns. The tank has only one 2" metal cross brace which makes it a pleasure to work inside of.
Here it is sitting in the Exotic Aquatics waiting for me to take it home.
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We built our home from scratch so I was able to plan on an in wall tank. I extended a closet to give more room behind the tank. I also had a beam header put across the tank viewing wall so that I could knock out any studs on that wall that I wanted to. I had a sink installed so that I could easily clean stuff up without walking through the house with something wet. I wanted to have a floor drain installed but builder wouldn't do it so I had to come up with another plan to show later.
Here is the room during rough plumbing. As you can see there is double doors leading into the fish room leaving plenty of room to move in the big tank and stand. The fish room is 11' x 4' with one ending having a bullnose that kind of takes up some of the space.
And the rough plumbing for the utility sink.
This has been a long build and still plenty to be done. It started pretty much in August of 2007. I got the tank on August 17th. It is custom built by Deep Sea Aquatics. They are the former custom tank builders from Oceanic that split off and made their own company instead of moving up north to Oceanics new location. I think they like the weather in Texas better. I picked this company cause they are the only ones that build stainless steel framed tanks. Their guarantee is also awesome at 7 yrs. They have never had one their stainless steel framed tanks ever leak even while they were building them with Oceanic. My tank is 72" x 30" x 31.5" and has a stainless steel frame. 30" from front to back is so nice to work with for aquascaping and adds a lot visually. It also has dual corner overflows that each contain 1.5" drain and two 1" returns. The tank has only one 2" metal cross brace which makes it a pleasure to work inside of.
Here it is sitting in the Exotic Aquatics waiting for me to take it home.
