The story of my fish room

[TutenStain]

So I have had my fish room for about 1 year now I just wanted to share how I built it. Im a full time IT student so I am on a tight budget. This is what I have accomplished so far. Hope you like it and maybe I can inspire you USA fishkeepers on how we do it here. :) I have hundreds of pictures, but I just upload th most "intresting" ones now, might upload the rest if there is enough interest :)

How it all started, this is the room that I rented.
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First 540L aquarium in place.
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Second 540L in place
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My lovely chair :)
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I wanted more so I bought 12 100L aquariums
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To bring the cost down all my aquariums (expect the first 2 big ones) are driven by this air pump. 100w
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[TutenStain]

I also wanted cheap and low power lighting so I got the cheapest led lighting possible.
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Time is an issue, so I wanted "half-automatic" water changing so I got the drain fixed
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I wanted some more aquarium so I bought 6 200l.
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It was time to start build the stand.
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It was quite easy to get them running, I just extended the airline so that It could reach these new aquariums too.
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[TutenStain]

This time I wanted some more quality lighting so I got myself 10m of led lights.
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Fixing overflow for easy water changing
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[TutenStain]

This is how the filtration works on my 12 100l aquariums. Very effective and capable of handling hundreds of frys.
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I have a 10cm sponge and I also have a undergravelfilter with a 10cm sandbed on top of it in each aquarium. All these are driven by air going trough a 25mm 90 deg PVC pipe.


And these are some extra aquariums I have for new born or sick fish.
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[Jaycal]

Is that an old locker room or something?

[Heyguy74]

Great pics. Thanks for sharing. I ilke the LED Lighting effective yet cheap to run.

[clx]

Inspiring!!!:ty:

[zebra7]

Very nice Tuten, thank u for sharing. Sort of reminds me of a members bathroom here on ECC, Clos . :becky:

[clos]

I was thinking about it zebra
But the wife said no way lmao
I might get away with bunk beds
:neener::runnningaround:

[mk368]

looks great what kind of fish do you keep?

[TutenStain]

Some of my fishes:
WC Petrotilapia sp. "Yellow Chin"
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Stigmatochromis woodi
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WC cynotilapia lion "lions cove"
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n.fusco (dont like his mouth shape, but hes coloring is amazing)
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Some of the tanks:
http://i559.photobucket.com/albums/ss36/TutenStain/DSC_0386-1.jpg

Some videos:
http://youtu.be/nz9MoFBE2NA
http://youtu.be/w7oGkTeMipk
http://youtu.be/dHy8tJuA7qQ - My favorite video d.kiwinge showing dominance on n.fuscotaeniatus