mhowe9's New Fishroom Build w/245G In wall tank

In early May this year, my wife and I made the unexpected decision to move.  This was just after I completed a project that include a new breeding room and dual in-wall tanks (245G and 180G).  The tanks had been up for about six months when we decided to move.  The allows both of us to cut a significant amount of drive time off of our commutes each day.  We ended up moving to the new house in the first week of July.  In the process of getting ready to move and actually moving I ended losing quite a bit of livestock  .  After the movers took the two big tanks and the I moved the breeding set up and remaining livestock, this is what I ended up with.
 

 
Not pretty but it does the job.  I was originally going to keep this set up this way but I have decided that I want some more space in the fish room to add at least one of my display tanks if not both.  I talked it over with my wife and she was ok with me walling in that section of the basement and adding my 245G tank into the wall.   It does come with a catch, however,  I have to get rid of an old wood burning stove that is currently living in the basement.  I did a couple of sketch up drawings to show where my head was at on this project.  I didn't add a lot of intricate details on these drawings but I figured they would give you the idea of what I was planning. 
 
Front view

 
Top Down view  (yes, there is a toilet with no sink in the fish room) 
 

 
I haven't decided yet what I am going to do with the 245 Display.  I am leaning toward doing the Angelfish/Butterfly tank that I failed with at the old house but I am not set on that yet.  A lot depends on how or if I can get the 180G into fish room somewhere also.  We will see what happens in the coming months.  First order of business will be to start in the back of the room and add insulation, build racks, and start the process of transferring the fish from the table to the new system.

Do you plan on having broodstock and grow-out in the area you call "breeding racks"? What are the white boxes in the bottom middle of the sketch?

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Probably, Most of the equipment I have (especially the skimmer) are set up for larger water volumes, so the modular set doesn't work real well for me.  The white things are in wall shelves that are built into that wall.

Picture of the wood burning stove that I will have the remove once I start to add the display tank.

Just want to say that I hate all you guys with basements  I want a basment SSSOOOOOO bad to put the breeding system in, guess I have to build my own house next year and do it my damn self to get what I want!!!
 
 

Our goal with "The Clown Factory" is simple....Raise healthy, beautiful, captive clownfish and ...his is our small part to help keep the Worlds reefs as God intended them to be.....Beautiful

Mike, can I use that first shot in my MACNA talk?  Really, seriously..can you send me a high rez original?  That's CLASSIC cinderblocks and wood!

Matt, no problem! I will send over in a few minutes.

I finally was able to get this project completed.  It took me a couple of months but most everything is up and running.  Here is are some pics now that I have everything up and running.
 
In wall display tank (245G)


 
Sump for the display with a ASM G6 skimmer

 
Breeding setup.  When it is all complete it will hold 23 tanks.

 
Left racks

 
Right Racks

 
Quarantine Sytems (2 22G tanks and a 29G cube)

Woot!

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"Making captive breeding easier."

Very nice! And you chose the same purple avant-garde pipe decoration I always do! Kudos!!

Thanks Jim!

Here is the final display tank all trimmed out.  My daughter wanted the purple wall so we did the purple trim to match.
 

That is really nice!

schaaweeeet

Thanks for the comments all!

I decided to make some changes to the breeding setup.  A lot of which was drived by changes I wanted to make on the filtration in the display.  On Friday, I took a day off work and picked up a used Mars unit that was for sale.  Since I bought that MARS unit I was able to eliminate the back section breeding setup (which I will later used for larval rearing and other stuff).  I spent parts of this weekend plumbing the remaining breeding set up into the sump that was part of the MARS unit.   I purchased a Super Reef Octopus 5000 External Skimmer that should be here this week to complete the breeding setup.   I am the 180G that was the sump in the breeding system and using that as the sump for the display tank.  Here is picture of the system as it stands now (I need to do some wire clean up)
 

 
I will post some more pics once I have the whole thing completed.

Looking good!

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"Making captive breeding easier."

Found a little time to get take some pictures in the broodstock setup and document my pairs that are living there
 
Snowflake pair

 
Ocellaris pair (one of these guys had Top Dressed Otohime the other didn't)

 
Darwin Pair

 
Blackline Fang blenny (This was the only one of the trio that wanted to be photographed)

 
Austrailan Long Nose Butterfly Pair  (Destined the display tank but getting acclimated in a 40 Breeder for now).  I really didn't like how this pic turned out.  They really don't live in brown water.

 
 
And for kicks an old pic of my Fire Clown pair that has been with me for a couple of years now.  (The only pair that survived the move)

 
Also, I have completed the sump move and have everything plumbed back together and running.  I am really liking the ATI skimmer on the reef system.  I also re-aquascaped the display yesterday.  I will post some pics tomorrow once the all sand settles back down.
 
 

Has your display cleared up yet?

Yeah, I used a UV and cleared up in less than 24hrs

So it probably was a bacterial bloom then.  Cool, glad it is all better now. 

I had the same thing on my broodstock tank... and I did the same and had the same result.

-Adam

Any sexual dimorphism in the fang blennies ?

Anderson.

Not that I can tell.
 
 

Here is the new broodstock that I got today.  They are still settling in.
 
Cave Basslets

 
Tracey's Damsel Pair

 
Sixline Wrasse Pair

 
Black Ocellaris Pair

 
Sunrise Dottyback Pair

 
 

Sexy fish  Glad they made it mike!

HI just wondering what return pumps you have used?

Right now the system has a Mag 18 and a Quiet One pump.  I don't remember which model on the Quiet One