Re: New Fish Room

["Steve Waldron" <swaldron@slip.net>]

Sorry I haven't been following this thread to close, but one cool thing to
add to a dream fishroom: a de-humidifier. You will want to remove some of
the H2O from the air to keep your fishroom from turning into fungiroom.  A
nice bonus: the effluent of the de-humidifier is mineral free and excellent
for soft-water fish applications.
- Steve
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>From: Doug Brown <debrown@kodak.com>
>To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: Re: New Fish Room
>Date: Fri, Oct 30, 1998, 8:10 AM
>

>Great ideas folks. As I just bought a house with a sprawling basement I
>have been thinking about these issues myself. (Beds, living room furniture
>- huh?)
>
>Some ideas:
>
>- Paint at least one wall black or dark blue or green behind tanks.
>
>- No windows. I know the fish look great in natural sunlight but the darn
>algae doesn't.
>
>- Leave room for a few house plants.
>
>- Use that pretreated deck wood for racks. Use bolts so I can take it apart
>if I need to!
>
>- I would also love to figure out a good cheap way to be able to slide the
>tanks out of racks to clean them.
>
>- A sink big enough for a 10G tank.
>
>- All lights on a single timer.
>
>- At least one serious display tank - my dream would be one of those cool
>corner ones with the bowed front.
>
>- Supra IV air pump, enough for 30 tanks easy.
>
>- Safety first: GFI and painted non-slip floor.
>
>- If you have the space a cool idea I saw was to have the utility table in
>the middle of the room with cabinets underneath. This guy eventually hung a
>light over it and put plant tanks on it.
>
>- My biggest concern is water. I think I've decided my first system will
>just be my RO unit running into a plastic trash can with an overflow valve,
>and a big submersible pump to top off tanks.
>
>-Doug Brown
>debrown@kodak.com
>
>
>
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