My fish room/thread for all the help one may need!

[JBeehler]

I am looking to build out a gallery style fish room, consisting of anywhere between 12-20 tanks. The area is 10.5’x7.5’ with only three walls as it is in the family room of our basement.

I have 1 125gallon aquarium for a fahaka puffer. And will have 2 rolling ponds similar to serpadesigns design at 27g. 
 

the rest of the tanks I am not sold on yet. Wanting to keep tanks under 15” front to back to go down side walls. Leaning towards UNS 60s, 60u, and 60e for main tanks and using 30c for a few smaller tanks for keeping some small CARES killifish and the likes. 
 

main goals: colony breed 3-4 strains of guppies, and ponds will house single strains of rice fish. Anyone want to take a stab at how they would lay it out?

[Guppysnail]

That is a fabulous room. It will look stunning when finished. The first thing I would look into before putting anything in the room is more electrical outlets if possible. I never ever have enough outlets and end up daisy chaining strips. It does not look good at all if your are concerned about optics. 

[JBeehler]

On 7/7/2023 at 1:34 PM, Guppysnail said:

That is a fabulous room. It will look stunning when finished. The first thing I would look into before putting anything in the room is more electrical outlets if possible. I never ever have enough outlets and end up daisy chaining strips. It does not look good at all if your are concerned about optics. 

That’s a valid point. My plan was to install outlets in stands and plug stands into outlets. Each section of wall has an outlet thinking I will have 4 more “stands” and each stand will have outlets for each aquarium. 
 

Almost all the smaller tanks will be ran off of sponge filters. I assume I do not have enough tanks in mind for a linear piston pump?

[JBeehler]

Just wanted to keep this updated. The tank plans have changed. I will be resealing some leaking spots in our new to us large tank for the fahaka. And we settled on UNS 60t/u for the other tanks. Adding what the stands will look like for the smaller tanks and picture of the replacement for the 125g

[Rube_Goldfish]

Wow, look at that tank! I'm jealous and you're just getting started! I don't have a fish room, not really, but if I was designing one, I think I'd want it to be plumbed with a sink to make water changes easier. Additionally or alternately, you could have a barrel of dechlorinated, aerated, appropriately-heated water ready to go, too, tucked into some corner.

What are the dimensions of that big tank? Where did you get it?

Edited August 7 by Rube_Goldfish
Added questions about that cool big tank

[JBeehler]

On 8/7/2023 at 6:36 PM, Rube_Goldfish said:

Wow, look at that tank! I'm jealous and you're just getting started! I don't have a fish room, not really, but if I was designing one, I think I'd want it to be plumbed with a sink to make water changes easier. Additionally or alternately, you could have a barrel of dechlorinated, aerated, appropriately-heated water ready to go, too, tucked into some corner.

What are the dimensions of that big tank? Where did you get it?

The big tank is a 270 gallon “touch” pond. It’s 6.5 feet long, and 44” wide at the “circle” and 21” tall. It was a display at a now closed local fish store and the new fish store finally let me get it from them. They have 1 more the same size and 2 170g ones that are just the “circle”.

[JBeehler]

Here is the stand completed and setup. Still have to contain the wires, plant them and get them stocked. This is the first of 4 of these stands for the room.

[Rube_Goldfish]

On 8/11/2023 at 10:42 AM, JBeehler said:

Here is the stand completed and setup. Still have to contain the wires, plant them and get them stocked. This is the first of 4 of these stands for the room.

That looks great, even at this early stage. I'm looking forward to more updates!