Bloke's 210g

I built a new house last June and now I have this unfinished basement that has become this summer's project!! I will begin tackling this job and thought that it would be a perfect time to setup another in-wall system.

I've been thinking for several weeks about a plan and first things first, I wanted to get a basic floor plan for the basement which will include 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, utility room, family room, bar, of course a fish room, and storage.

Here's where I am thus far:




I plan to brick the fish room outer walls and arch the display opening. I've given it a great deal of thought and in the end, I think it will look great!





I have the 210g ALL-Glass tank along with a 125g sump. I plan to run an SRO-3000 skimmer as well as dual MP40w's for flow.

 

Here are a few shots before the mitre saw & hammer begin the work...

 

The first thing I had to do was move the door to the fish room. With a 24.5" deep tank I will have about 2' behind the tank but only a mere 11" to move in and out of the room.

The problem is that the wall with the door is also the wall holding up one side of the stairs so the door cannot move very far before the wall is load bearing. I was, however, able to move it about 6.5"; that's not very much, but it does give me a little bit more space.

 

a 210g AND a house build! Awesome;D

 

NO kidding!

really cool!

 

Yeah! No kidding. I could bore you to death with pics of the whole basement job, but I guess I can just keep things oriented towards the hobby!

 

After I finished framing in the stand, I positioned the tank and then prepared the wall for OSB and the arched opening...

 

Stand complete:



Tank in place:

 

awesome!

 

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