New Plans for My Upcoming Aquarium
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, 01-13-2016 at 10:40 PM (6218 Views)
Hey Guys!!
OK. So I've been working on my dream tank for several years now and it is becoming a reality. I originally thought I was going to have a 12' x 7' rectangular room but now the room has changed into an odd shaped 15' x 4' x 11' x 10' x 4' room. I was originally planning on a 600 gallon tank but decided reduced it to a 465 gallon after meeting with the architects and finding out how much space would be designated for the aquarium and doing some long hard thinking about how much time I would have for maintenance.
I've attached a couple files of my room with two possible configurations. My system will consist of the display, sump, refugium, frag tank, and maybe a small tank at the end of the frag tank. One configuration has everything against the wall and the other has the frag tank, refugium parallel to the display a little over 3' away. My QT and hospital tanks would be over on the shelving to the right of the water tanks. The shelving pictures is not necessarily what I will actually have but it is just there representing some sort of appropriate shelving.
I'm leaning toward the setup with the frag tank and, refugium sticking out from the wall because I have room for my stand alone sink to wash equipment. I'm working on figuring out my equipment needs as well as figuring out my electrical needs and placement for the outlets. I've been doing a lot of reading but I'm sure there is a whole lot I'm probably missing.
I guess my question I want to tackle at the moment regarding my room configurations is this: is the configuration I'm leaning toward feasible? I've been looking at a lot of builds and have pulled different things from different builds and modeled things after builds I've gotten online and it seems like it's possible but I just need some opinions from those of you with more experience.
I appreciate any and all input!!
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