As many of you know I moved in the fall of 2019 and shut my 220 & 60 frag down. Special thanks to @spike for holding the livestock I wanted to keep. Glenn has been awesome holding everything and dealing with my delays getting the basement finished. He also got to see my Blue Throat Triggers spawn within days of putting them in his holding tank. It helps that he's only about a par 5 away as a crow flies, probably 3 or 4 miles by road.
So, in May of 19’ Nat and I found this hole in the ground that we really liked in the back of a subdivision and I immediately saw the outline of the system and fish room I wanted to put in and we decided to go ahead and make the move.
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Gotta say, in the nine months we have been in Flowery Branch we absolutely love it up here.
Once we finally moved in this is what I was looking at in the basement and I started taping off the area where I wanted the display. With everything that goes with moving, setting up the living area, hanging things where the wife wants and dealing with the garage & yard it took a little longer to get started in the basement than I had hoped. That and I got a little lazy in the late winter through mid-April with the Covid crap. Things have been slowly but steadily moving forward since then. It is still a mess down there but it is finally getting better.
Now some info about the tank and fish room. The tank is 8’x4’x29” with 1” thick acrylic and fully braced at the top, made at MRC/SEA Atlanta. I figure the water height will be about 26”, that puts the volume at about 470 gallons before rock. With the rock, sump and a 60 frag connected the total volume should be somewhere around 600-625, maybe more if I run two sumps. It will have a closed loop to handle flow on the last quarter of the length and a pair of MP60’s on the overflow side to start. I have some WAV pumps if it needs more flow and may even try to incorporate a couple of gyres if needed.
The fish room is roughly 28’x16’ or just about 450sf. It will have a counter, cabinets, slop sink, a very large mixing station and multiple holding & QT tanks along with a 300 gallon frag system. I also put in an HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilator) that I hope along with the slightly over sized HVAC system will help with the humidity, but it will definitely keep any odors to a minimum and reduce co2 levels. I also have a dehumidifier that I'll have in there as well. The HRV will exhaust air from the fish room and from above the display and return outside air to the main entertainment room above the HVAC return vent. This keeps fresh air always heading in one direction. For the electric I have put infour five dedicated 20amp circuits and two multiple outlet 15amp circuits and have half that load run through a transfer switch for generator backup.
Here are the way things look now. I hope to have the floors sealed this weekend and be ready to move the tank in sometime next week. I know that will make Jeff happy. I just hope my back holds out!
Another special thanks goes out to @jcook54. I could not be where I am now without Justin’s help. I cannot begin to thank him enough for the multiple 40min, one way, drives to my house and helping me with everything from electrical work to hanging the drop ceiling. Even one time he came to help and instead of working in the basement we ended up sweating our tails off thinning a bunch of trees out from behind the house. This is him last Saturday working on the exhaust vent above where the display will be. It's on the other side of the wall directly between the two outlets in the pic above. And I forgot about the fifth dedicated 20amp circuit up there for there lighting.
More to come after the floors are sealed and the mixing station goes in. Hopefully fist water will be sometime in September.
So, in May of 19’ Nat and I found this hole in the ground that we really liked in the back of a subdivision and I immediately saw the outline of the system and fish room I wanted to put in and we decided to go ahead and make the move.
Gotta say, in the nine months we have been in Flowery Branch we absolutely love it up here.
Once we finally moved in this is what I was looking at in the basement and I started taping off the area where I wanted the display. With everything that goes with moving, setting up the living area, hanging things where the wife wants and dealing with the garage & yard it took a little longer to get started in the basement than I had hoped. That and I got a little lazy in the late winter through mid-April with the Covid crap. Things have been slowly but steadily moving forward since then. It is still a mess down there but it is finally getting better.
Now some info about the tank and fish room. The tank is 8’x4’x29” with 1” thick acrylic and fully braced at the top, made at MRC/SEA Atlanta. I figure the water height will be about 26”, that puts the volume at about 470 gallons before rock. With the rock, sump and a 60 frag connected the total volume should be somewhere around 600-625, maybe more if I run two sumps. It will have a closed loop to handle flow on the last quarter of the length and a pair of MP60’s on the overflow side to start. I have some WAV pumps if it needs more flow and may even try to incorporate a couple of gyres if needed.
The fish room is roughly 28’x16’ or just about 450sf. It will have a counter, cabinets, slop sink, a very large mixing station and multiple holding & QT tanks along with a 300 gallon frag system. I also put in an HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilator) that I hope along with the slightly over sized HVAC system will help with the humidity, but it will definitely keep any odors to a minimum and reduce co2 levels. I also have a dehumidifier that I'll have in there as well. The HRV will exhaust air from the fish room and from above the display and return outside air to the main entertainment room above the HVAC return vent. This keeps fresh air always heading in one direction. For the electric I have put in
Here are the way things look now. I hope to have the floors sealed this weekend and be ready to move the tank in sometime next week. I know that will make Jeff happy. I just hope my back holds out!
Another special thanks goes out to @jcook54. I could not be where I am now without Justin’s help. I cannot begin to thank him enough for the multiple 40min, one way, drives to my house and helping me with everything from electrical work to hanging the drop ceiling. Even one time he came to help and instead of working in the basement we ended up sweating our tails off thinning a bunch of trees out from behind the house. This is him last Saturday working on the exhaust vent above where the display will be. It's on the other side of the wall directly between the two outlets in the pic above. And I forgot about the fifth dedicated 20amp circuit up there for there lighting.
More to come after the floors are sealed and the mixing station goes in. Hopefully fist water will be sometime in September.
