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I am looking to build a fish room in my basement. The room will have a sump and a refugium for my DT upstairs. It will also house my water making station, QT's and everything else. How did you all that have a fish room decide where to put it? What were the determining factors you used? Help please as this will be my first fish room but not the first tank. I moved into a new house last month and have yet to set my tank up as I want to start out with a nice fresh system and setup.
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It has been a long time coming, but I need to get this build off the ground. I have spent way too much time buying half of WAMAS's used equipment over the last 5 months and a 1/4 of all frags that have gone on sale. Part of my journey was to meet as many people as I could, and to see some really amazing systems. Since seeing so many systems I have decide to change my original plan and do what I really want to do. Being a Landscape Architect I always tell my clients to "do it right the first time, and do it when you are really ready to invest in it".....well I am going to take my own advice, and that time is now. I have spent many nights reading threads from our club and Reef Central: D2Mimi, ChingChai, Drummereef, monkiboy, steveoutlaw (my cousin), davelin315, cetenophore, YHSublime, DCReefer1967, ridetheducati, dave w, & of course copps. So obviously I have caught the disease as have many of you. I will try and post a pic at some time of my first tank. A saltwater 20g or 30g in 1979-1984. Yes it had a cutting edge under gravel filter, and I managed to keep some nems. and a few fish for a couple years. I think the financial limit of 2-3 fish (you can only mow so many lawns in the 8th grade) probably saved the whole system, along with weekly water changes. My next system wasn't till 2004-2006. I joined WAMAS and we had MACNA here down in Crystal City. That was a 29g that survived a move, but not a dive trip to the Dominican Republic where my brother-in-law was put in charge of the tank for more then a week. My existing system was started in Dec 2012 and is an IM 16g Nano. It was a Birthday / Christmas present to one of my son's.....so I blame him. The new system being built right now is my wife's fault....she wanted an 3/4" Annularis Angel that she thought was pretty. (sorry, just got pinged on my phone, something new was posted on WAMAS's WTB/WTS/FREE forum!) OK I am back. After making sure she was emotional attached to the fish I explained to her that it might grow....well maybe a little,,OK it is going to be massive and we we need to take out another mortgage to fund the fish room to keep this little guys happy and health. So the odyssey beginnings.....
