My Fishroom

[Sarah]

Sorry if this isn't in the right place, can only see a few forums and this seems the most relevant.

So I had all my tanks and animals in my bedroom, and in order to make space for them all, I got rid of all my non-fish related furniture (were in storage), save my bed, a wardrobe (had a couple previously), and my desk. I cramped these into a corner as far as humanly possibly and tetris-stacked the tanks. Wasn't the neatest, but it worked alright.

Well my mum didn't like the set up, as she thought it was an eye sore. Said something about a health hazard or something along those lines too. My dad being a carpenter (he built our house!) made me a fishroom. I'm EXTREMELY lucky & grateful! So now all my tanks, save a 400L, are in there.

Shall post a series of photos from it being built, and get updated pics tomorrow when I take photos of the shrimp set up. Last photos were taken a few months ago so it's a little outdated.

Space is roughly 4.5m x 2.5m.

Area. Previously used for entertaining guests/having BBQ's. Dad's now thinking of extending our back deck as we no longer have the space to do so.

First wall going up:

That's my dad.

Inside done, waiting to be painted and outer walls completed:

More to come.

[Sarah]

Starting to be set up inside. Smaller tanks for Bettas, 4ft corner tank (300L) are for peacock cichlids... that tank still isn't set up as of yet.

Real pain moving that planted tank. Hope that never has to be done again, ugh. Think I cut everything WAYYYY back, so it looks skimpy.

Fast forward a month:

My mum asked me to post photos of the paintings I got for Christmas. :P

That's all for now. :)

[Loach]

Awesome fishroom! The paintings are beautiful :)

And once you have access, I can move this to the right section.

[Sarah]

Thankyou Loach. :)

Appears I have access now (thanks guys!), would you mind moving this thread please?

[Sprae]

Looks great Sarah! Wish I had a dedicated tank room...

[Triggs]

Sweet fish room thanks for sharing.

Also love the paintings, very lifelike. I also see I'm not the only one who's thought of using those old TV Cabinets as a fish tank stand lol !

[fishmosy]

Great room.:encouragement:

[Sarah]

Thanks guys!

Forgot to get those updated pics, had unexpected guests.

Triggs, I saw the TV cabinet on the side of the road along with unwanted items from the neighbours across the street moving. Thought, yeah... I'll take that. Needed a stand for the barracks, and it fits perfectly... plus extra shelving for more tanks! Bonus!

[Brado]

you are a lucky girl! and good on dad!

whats on top of the tv cabinet? can we have another pic of it?

[JustJamieII:-)]

Great thread Sarah. It brought a huge smile to my face reading it and seeing your Dad hard at work. Don't forget Father's day is coming...

I hate to imagine all those tanks stacked in your room :cower:.. Must've been like sleeping at Niagara Falls.

[Sarah]

Brado, I have my betta barracks ontop. Will get another photo tomorrow for you. Thanks!

Hehe, of course I couldn't forget father's day Jamie! Most people did describe my room as Niagara Falls, apparently you could hear the water running two rooms away, with both doors shut. I, on the other hand, never noticed a thing... just got used to it after the first month. Still have a 400L in my room... that's going to be for eels come the end of the year. A snowflake and a zebra eel. My parents have said that'll be my birthday present, mum said it's a sucky present on her terms, but I couldn't be happier!

[Sarah]

This is my 4ft tank in the lounge room. Home of a pair of angels and rummy nose tetras.. need to get some more tetras.

Outdated photos, I'll get more tonight if I have time before 2 karate classes and kali.

Last school holidays Matt (Matt_95) came down and he helped scape.

This was the before shot. Lousy looking tank, I really didn't like it.. my parents had it set up like this for the past 18yrs. After mum decided she liked my planted 3ft in the fishroom setup better, she decided to get the lounge room tank planted, too.

After. I've seen moved the background plants to the right, and it's grown in a little more.

Collected this... still going well.

Not really sure what this plant is? Was told it was HM... but doesn't look like it.

[Sprae]

Great improvement! Never ever liked those ornamental tanks.

Sarah, I'm very envious of all the tanks you have ;)

[brenkirk]

You new fish room looks great. I am thinking about doing a similar thing in the garage. After all a car is made of metal and should be able to stand a bit of rain

[Sarah]

Thanks Sprae. :)

I have a bit of a dislike towards fake ornamental tanks. I had been trying to convince the parents to let me convert it for a while (their tank, but dad gave it to me to do what I wish, except scape it), turns out it worked well to plant my other tanks and compare them!

Thanks Bren. :)

My room is the converted garage, so when I had all the tanks in gave me a bit more space than a the other rooms in the house. If you can do it, do so! We have our car outside (recently dad made a carport)... it's fine, just needs to be washed a little more frequently.

[isfrael]

Sarah

How often do you take out a shin/knee on that low table/drawers in the middle of the room? haha

[Sarah]

Well mum likes to rearrange the furniture ALL the time, sometimes during the middle of the night... so if you get up at night time/early morning/for the next week or so at night with the lights off, you're bound to run into SOMETHING.

I think we've moved our piano three times this year. I really do not want to carry another piano ever again!