Ok, so here goes. My fish room, an area I can make a mess and just leave and not have to worry about my wife giving me crap for it.
I'll warn you guys, it still work in process, but it's fully functional. I have a few things I want to add and a few things I want to removed. Theres a 20amp dedicated circuit just for fish stuff
Heres a pic of the work area and such. To the left, I have the almighty laundry sink. A must for a basement sump. If i could do it again, I'd look for a double wide sink. Something that I can set up a fragging tray over the sink.
Then comes the sump. I raised it off the ground for a few reasons.
First of all the return pump is pressure rate for 21 feet, but if the pump were to be located on the floor, it would have to pump around 15' of head. Return rate would have been very low about 400gph. Raising the sump 20"gets me to about 750gph which works for my setup. I didn't want to run a high wattage pump so the one I'm using is a Pan world NH-100px and draw rated for 90-115watt and fairly quite.
Secondly having the sump propped up still allows you to siphon water out of it at a decent rate where you can actually siphon out detritus.
And lastly, it makes working on the sump a lot easier on my back and not hunched over or on my knees.
The sump is basically a 125 long tank 72x18x18. I only have one baffle for the skimmer section and the rest of the sump is mainly for live rock. No micro bubbles as they dissipate by the time it moved from one end to the other. Another reason is I'm running a modified bean animal setup that runs the main drain at full siphon where there are no micro bubbles. I also have my auto top off connected directly from my rodi unit. I haven't topped off fresh water in 8 years
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Next is the back wall, I've incorporated a 20 gallon frag tank(recently) and its starting to do well and not grow algae lol. I'm running a Sun blaster 2x 24 watt t5 bulbs and a mp40 for flow.
I also have my dosing equipment on the left. It's an older GHL stand alone unit. Dosing ESV b-ionic. Although expensive, it works the best in my experience. I had my controller there as well, but the control head got wet when my frag tank overflowed. I left the snail guard off the drain
and a snail got in. Unfortuanlty I set the control head down on the counter in front of the frag tank.
I need a new control head now, hence why I'm using a light timer.
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Heres my work station, where I do all my testing and data logging. I also do my fraggin here as well. I'd like to put up a large dry erased board as well to keep track of things on the fly. Im usually a fairly neat and organized person, but for some reason this fish room just gets out of hand.
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My mixing station is just a 20g brute with a maxi jet. I usually don't run a heater as I find it doesn't impact the temp of the tank when I do water changes.
I basically siphon out 4 five gallon buckets of water out of the skimmer section or frag tank while I'm pumping the fresh mix in. I plan on attaching a tee from the return pump straight into the drain. Also build a high stand for the newly mixed salt water so i can just gravity feed it back into the sump.
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Anything and everything work bench. Here I do all one my fish related, and not fish related stuff. You can see on the left the All IN ONE tank I built for my dad.
Just cycling it before I drop it off
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Future plans
-More shelving
-New frag tank and Q tank
-Install a trough style drain so I can just wash down the floors and squeegee it dry.
-Gravity drain salt water mix tank
-tee off return to main drain for water changes
-wiring clean up and organizers.
So that's about it. I'm happy to answer and questions that might arise from this post.
Tanks for following
-deez