Damn! Cant put new tank in living room...

[Anonymous]

I am moving to a new house and am upgrading to a 150. Now that we are in the new house, the tank is huge and dominates the living room - which has three walls of windows looking out onto a beautiful yard, a view that should not be dominated.

I can put the tank in a kind of huge entry area of the house, and it will look nice, but I had my mind set on being able to look at the tank in the room where the family spends most of its time.

Any thoughts that will make me feel better about the tank not being in the living room? What rooms do you all have your tanks in?

RR

PS
My wife is willing to budget me more money for the tank for this compromise. She is nice.

 

[IcantTHINKofONE]

basement next to pool table and bar.

 

[danmhippo]

Would your wife tolerate her hubby spending most of his time at home in the entry way staring at the tank?

Righty, put it in a location that is the most barren and non-decorated. Your wife will thank you for it.

 

[SPC]

Posted by Righty:

What rooms do you all have your tanks in?

-My 180 is in our bedroom . IMO, make sure you put the tank where you will spend a great deal of time or you will regret it.
Steve

 

[Ike]

Would it be possible to recess it in the wall w/o window in living area? Just a thought
Ike

 

[heavydc2]

mines in my home office (once I get it up andf running)

 

[eddi]

in my home office, right next to my desk; in the family room (sorry); in the basement next to my pool table and big screen tv.


Eddi

 

[Anonymous]

This really sucks. At least your wife is cool about the $$$. I can't really offer you any ideas without knowing the layout of the house. I'm sure you ahave already thought of alternate locations. Is the entry the only other option?

Louey

 

[JRF]

Well, if your kitchen is big enough you could put it in there. I have seen set-ups where the tank is beside the kitchen table. Would be nice.
JRF

 

[Keith A]

don't forget the environmental factors..

i'm not sure where you live, but if you decide to keep your light cycle for peak viewing in the later afternoon, you wouldn't want too much light from those big windows ruining your plans and making your photoperiod 18 hours.

also, make sure the room has adequate temperature control. i personally have my tank in my home office, mostly because i don't have central a/c and run a window unit in the summer.

whenever i stop spending all of my money on fishtank stuff and manage to buy a house, i'm planning on a basement install. cooler. probably easier access to plumbing and no light issues that i can't control.

it's much easier to heat a tank than cool one..

good luck.

 

[tanzy]

The dining room. Would rather have it in the living room though, but I'm worried about direct sunlight.

 

[Mouse]

Righty,

Wus up chiefy,

Just wanted to say that whenever i see empty tanks, even just a bare tank they allways look huge. But by the time you get it filled with rocks and such they do seem to shrink. I think its probably just optical perception thats leading you to beleave that the tank will be too dominering. Just remember that as you look into the tank now your seeing right up to the back, all the way into the corners, and theres nothing to take your focus of the back of the tank. I think it will be great in the living room and actually compliment the view. Just think youll have a dark mystereous reef on the back wall surrounded by light open windows looking out onto an open woodland. Besides, all the time your working on the tank you can still talk to your bird, and you can sell it allong the lines that whilst your buisyly working away at it she can watch whatever she wants on TV or choose conversation with yourself.

 

[camp6]

my tank is in my tattoo room. the customers love it.

 

[Mouse]

camp6, check this out. :twisted:

40 hours so far

 

[Osama]

Righty:
I do not know your house layout.
But for me a 150 framed into & as a divider wall between LR & DR or between Office room & Rec room, betwen kitchen & Dr etc.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the input everyone.

Here is a rough layout of the downstairs of the house.

The black things in the living room are windows.

Right now there is on tank in the house, only the stand. The tank is a 150, 5x2x2 and the stand is 36" tall. It is big no matter which way i look at it. It will also get a 16" canopy.

The perfect place in the living room would be on the wall where the bathroom is (1/2 bath actually), but since the door to the bathroom is there the tank cannot go there. If it could, there would be no problem at all.

The other two options for the living room are on the walls oppisite the 'L' or 'm' of the living room text. In eithe of tese positions the stand alone dominates the room, so I am scared to think what it would look like with the tank and canopy.

The only option I can see is to put the tank in the weird room, near the kitchen, and the weird room becomes the tank room. With a couch and a table to hang out and look at the tank. I am getting used to the idea.

Any thoughts or ideas?

RR :mrgreen:

Additional question:
The 180 gallon sump for the tank is going under the house under the living room. The run is about 40 feet while the rise to the tank is only about 8 feet. I was planning to use one Amp Master 3000, but now I am worried I will loose too much volume with such a long run of piping. Am I right about this, or will I only lose flow due to head pressure? Should I run it with 2 Amp Masters? Should I make this topic its own thread?

Thanks! RDO rules.

 

[SPC]

Posted by Righty:

The perfect place in the living room would be on the wall where the bathroom is (1/2 bath actually), but since the door to the bathroom is there the tank cannot go there. If it could, there would be no problem at all.

-Can you take the door for the bath out in the LR and install a new entrance door from the kitchen?
The weird room looks like a good area also, with the entrance there you are sure to observe the tank as you come in and out of the house.

The 180 gallon sump for the tank is going under the house under the living room. The run is about 40 feet while the rise to the tank is only about 8 feet.

-The amp master will never handle this, you are going to need a different pump. Do a search for basement sumps, there should be info on what people have used.

 

[Osama]

How about having it built into the wall between the weird room & entrance. You can view it from the entrance, the office & from the weird room. I am stuck on built-in fish tanks. I hope my next tank to be built in...
Also you may want to consider the wall between office & weird room

 

[Osama]

I meant to say:
How about having it built into the wall between the weird room & entrance. You can view it from the entrance, the DR & from the weird room. I am stuck on built-in fish tanks. I hope my next tank to be built in...
Also you may want to consider the wall between office & weird room

 

[Anonymous]

The 180 gallon sump for the tank is going under the house under the living room. The run is about 40 feet while the rise to the tank is only about 8 feet.

-The amp master will never handle this, you are going to need a different pump. Do a search for basement sumps, there should be info on what people have used.

From what I understand the 3000 wil do 30gpm at 11' of head. If I have 7 actual feet of head and 4 more feet of lateral head (dolphin website says add 1 foot of head for every 10 feet of lateal pipe), that would give me 11' of head and 30gpm. If I have a 150 gallon tank and I want the water to turn over 10x and hour that is 1500 gph, and the 3000 at 11' head gives me 1600 gph (30x60min). What am I missing? Am I high?

I guess if it was easy everyone would be doin' it!

RR