Hello all,
This will be a journal about my journey to building out my living room into a fish room. I have a small house. So I do not have a spare room to convert into a fish room. So I have decided to build book cases and entertainment shelving to act like stands for my fish tanks. The total build will be two book cases to surround my TV, which is mounted to the wall, with shelving in between the cases. Then I will build another modular stand and a window seal stand. I have two 36 gallon bow front tanks. They will flank the TV. Then I will have a 29 gallon on the modular stand. Then a 75 gallon, a 5 gallon, and a half gallon on the window seal stand. At least that is the idea.
The two 36, 30, and 75 gallons are going to be native river basin themed tanks. I will be keeping darters in the two 36s and the 30 gallon. Then I will be keeping long eared sun fish cichlids in the 75 gallon. I will be getting a linear air pump to run air to the whole setup and each one will have either a sump or a canister filter with custom 3d printing intakes and outputs. In order to simulate the flow of the rivers. The 5 gallon is already planted and has 5 ember and 5 neon tetras in it. The half gallon has a female white Betta in it. It is also already planted.
I will update this post once I have the concept pictures and 3d rendered plans done / off my main computer.
-Austin