Balz3352's 'Convinced Her' Basement Sump/Fish Room

[Balz3352]

Well finally getting around to finishing part of the basement to do a basement sump for the 210 I picked up not terribly long ago for a steal.

Pics of finishing basement.

First time ever framing. Don't think I did too bad!

Finished framing. Now to plan electrical and decide who's going to do it.

 

[Balz3352]

Stand.

Building a stand for the tank. Luckily new father in law is a professional cabinet maker so yeah really he's building me a stand I'm helping.

Well decided to go with a steel stand going to put magnets on wood doors to make it look good. Pics once it's done.




Canopy

Im making the canopy out of aluminum, basing it loosely on aquatic arts display. I brazed the aluminum together. Essentially soldering it together. Fram is going to sit on the frame of the tank and bottom of the ceiling of the canopy will be about 13in off the water.

Lights are going to be slightly movable. Able to be slid back and forth.

Finished the canopy

Grooves cut in rack to secure the lights but still allow them to be slid back and forth with no chance of falling

With metal halides

Let there be light.

Finally finished the doors

 

[Balz3352]

Stock list. Updated 8/2/16

Fish
2 snowflake clowns
2 Christmas Island anthias
2 Barlet anthias
1 Sunset anthias
1 Orange Spotted goby
1 mandarin
1 Neon Dottyback
1 Orchid Dottyback



Corals

Sps



Lps

Ironman favia

Softys

Sunny ds
God of war
Rasta
Circus zoas
Solar flares
Pink Zippers

 

[Balz3352]

Fts

6/26/16

8/3/16

 

[Balz3352]

Reserved 4

 

[Balz3352]

Reserved 5.

 

[Balz3352]

Reserved 6

 

[Dr.DiSilicate]

Looking forward to this!

 

[neil82]

Looking good! Keep those pictures coming :cool2:

 

[SkyShark]

Nice! Following along

 

[halmus]

Nicely done! For your first time framing, you're doing a far better job than the "pro's" framing my basement currently. Want a job?

 

[SeaMonkey]

Looking good. Can't wait to see more pics.

 

[Balz3352]

Nicely done! For your first time framing, you're doing a far better job than the "pro's" framing my basement currently. Want a job?

Haha wasn't too terrible. But still have one more wall to do where I have to block. So we'll see! Just need to plan the electric now.

 

[Luke.Fraizer]

If you need help with the electrical I would be happy to help ya out!

 

[neil82]

Nice floating wall! Does your local building code also require fire blocking?

 

[Balz3352]

Nice floating wall! Does your local building code also require fire blocking?

Thanks! Yes I believe it does. Just going to use 1/2 drywall eventually.

 

[Balz3352]

If you need help with the electrical I would be happy to help ya out!

Pm sent

 

[Balz3352]

Started electrical. I'm gonna have a ridiculous amount of outlets on this thing. 2 mains (4 outlets) dedicated for life support and backup life support.

 

[Haddonisreef]

Looks good are u going to add aditional installation between studs? My brother inlaw is at the same stage

 

[Balz3352]

Looks good are u going to add aditional installation between studs? My brother inlaw is at the same stage

Yeah im probably going to put batts if I decide to finish this part. Im definitely going to drywall behind sump frag tank area but idk about the rest.