Hello Everyone!
As a kid I grew up tending to a 10-gallon freshwater tank with mollies, guppies, and the like.
Eventually I 'graduated' to a 29-gallon tank with Cichlids, but shut it down a few years ago when we started the house renovation.
More recently I got the itch again and decided to go all out (at least all out for me). I bought a used 220 gallon setup from a local Craig's List seller (a good method to buy/sell local tanks by the way) and moved it to the garage until my wife and I could finish preparing the location for the tank.
We tore down the inner wall of what used to be a bedroom closet to open it up to our combined dining room and kitchen area.
The cherry wood cabinet sat a little low for my liking (I wanted to be able to stand and look straight into the tank), so I built a base platform out of 4x4's stacked two high and 'sandwiched' between 3/4" plywood sheets, top and bottom.
I was VERY tempted to go salt water this time, but I couldn't bear the thought of losing a tankful of expensive fish, rock, coral to my own ignorance of marine caretaking. Sooo, freshwater it is.
I've now got the tank in place, with just the plumbing and a few other things to tend to before I can get it wet - Can't wait! :dance2:
As a kid I grew up tending to a 10-gallon freshwater tank with mollies, guppies, and the like.
Eventually I 'graduated' to a 29-gallon tank with Cichlids, but shut it down a few years ago when we started the house renovation.
More recently I got the itch again and decided to go all out (at least all out for me). I bought a used 220 gallon setup from a local Craig's List seller (a good method to buy/sell local tanks by the way) and moved it to the garage until my wife and I could finish preparing the location for the tank.
We tore down the inner wall of what used to be a bedroom closet to open it up to our combined dining room and kitchen area.
The cherry wood cabinet sat a little low for my liking (I wanted to be able to stand and look straight into the tank), so I built a base platform out of 4x4's stacked two high and 'sandwiched' between 3/4" plywood sheets, top and bottom.
I was VERY tempted to go salt water this time, but I couldn't bear the thought of losing a tankful of expensive fish, rock, coral to my own ignorance of marine caretaking. Sooo, freshwater it is.
I've now got the tank in place, with just the plumbing and a few other things to tend to before I can get it wet - Can't wait! :dance2:
