Craziest Thing You've Done For Larger Tank

[Jason Bell]

As stated, I believe I am embarking on the verge of crazy, of course I am looking for someone to agree that it is not. My tank is in the basement, conveniently located near a drain and sink etc, however I am land locked to about 6 feet. So after long discussion with GF, well really just me whining about reefing being my hobby and the rest of the house is hers to do with as she pleases, in order to gain more room I bought a tankless water heater, thus freeing up the space occupied by the water tank. This will be installed Friday, second phase of my plan is to move the furnace to the opposite corner of the basement room and there you go, will have the space for an 8 foot tank. Makes sense right?

 

[Luke.]

IMO , if you can afford go for it ! Lol personally I’d just build a shed and make it a fish room obviously heated and insulated !

 

[Pistol]

Great ideas, exactly what I would have done if I didn't buy a house to suit my tank plans

 

[Jason Bell]

I'm basically relegated to this area as the GF runs a home daycare, so circumstances call for extreme measures, well extreme to some normal to me.

 

[Luke.]

Well in that case I guess that’s your only hope haha

 

[GanderGreg]

Do you have a walkout basement? An 8ft glasd tank would be some serious weight to be moving down stairs.

 

[Pistol]

my 84 x 30 x 24 glass tank weighed close to 600 lbs

 

[Jason Bell]

No walkout, I got the 60*24*24 downstairs by myself, then got it on the stand, I'm rather bullish when I have something to get done.

That said, I think I would go acrylic

 

[Monnishan]

Yeah my 300 deep dimension is about 450 lbs. Im 6'4" 205 lbs and needed 3 other guys bigger than me to help me get mine in

 

[Jason Bell]

Is that similar to the Marineland 300 deep? Friend had one of those, always liked it.

 

[Josh]

1 piece of small advice. Make sure your new water heater is a 2 pipe system (fresh air intake, exhaust). This will stop it from drawing the air for combustion from the house. Tankless water heaters are bad for plugging up and using that humid salt water air would be bad long term for the equipment. Same thing applies to your furnace if its only a single pipe system.

 

[Jason Bell]

Thank you! The installer did say 2 pipes would be coming in/out of the house, I had him downstairs in the room, specifically to ask him the question around the aquarium.

 

[dale]

ordered tank from calgary, payed movers to move it into the house, installed a beam in the basement, cut a huge hole in our bedroom wall for plumbing had to run 2 other tanks for a year for hypo-salinity and rocks n stuff, all on very non disposable income... all pretty crazy to me..

 

[Jason Bell]

That's what I'm talking about, dedication is what I would call that

 

[dale]

That's what I'm talking about, dedication is what I would call that

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