The new 450g tank build

All this required me moving my office to a different room, and moving our bedroom into the room the office had been in, complicating matters more!
Rooms are mostly moved, but I still have many "displaced" items around the house so it's a bit of a mess. We don't have a big house and it's full so no place to hide stuff!

Last weekend we drove up and with the help of my wonderful volunteers Kenbow, Posiedon, gbsteve, Ardoski,and Ron S., we got the tank loaded up and brought it home.

We ended up removing the middle section of the picture window to bring the tank in and then replacing the window for now.

Mike has been working on the wall and stand, and we have been busy moving rooms around and demolishing the wall behind the tank to open it up to the room behind it. The tank will be built in with the front and right side open. To do this we had to bump out the living room wall about 5 feet, and open up the wall behind the tank for access to the back. The room behind it will be the "fish room" and will be for storage (we have none left around here) and the laundry. Moving the sump and tank stuff and the laundry upstairs will open up more space for the business downstairs.


Rear view


The stand is framed, and the walls as much as possible until the window is gone. We will be tearing that out next, closing the opening up some for a 6' slider, and then the wall at the front of the tank will be closed off the rest of the way.


Some "plans" floating around in our heads currently are:

stay with the 150g sump/fuge-I like it and it's working out well. Add a 45g tank-just purchased from Hopkins, plumbed in to the system, for my Haddoni Carpet and Clown to live in. Yeah! I get to have fish!

Lighting will be 3x250w Bluewave Ballasts with 2 Lumen Max pendents and Phoenix bulbs, and some T5HO supplements

Tank is drilled with 2 intakes and 8 outlets for a closed loop I will use my Hammerhead pump on, and probably use a Snapper for the return pump. Mike is doing all plumbing this time because he says mine is too messy. I will probably still use my 2 Tunze pumps for added circulation.

Daisy thinks we have lost our minds!