The Fish Room (Round 2)

For those that have known me for a while, you know that I started a fish room last year.

Well, I've been at it again

This time, I will get tanks set up

To catch everyone else up, here's the plans.


The room is approx 15' x 12' with a 9' ceiling and is located in the basement.
Number of tanks will depend on my wallet more than amount of space available.
Inhabitants will be mainly Tanganyikan cichlids, many of them wild caught.

Here we were getting it cleaned up and ready to start the project.



As this is very tiring work, I dragged the kids away from the tv and made them help






There was a duct running along the wall in the fishroom. I had to build a bulkhead to box it in before I could start the drywall.




Since I'm an Electrician by trade, I figured I'd fancy up the wiring a bit to help automate the tank lights

This timer will control receptacles that are on a dedicated lighting circuit, only tank lights will be plugged into those receptacles.




There are also equipment receptacles that are wired straight into the panel. Each wall has it's own 15a circuit




I hate drywall worse than any other phase of construction, it sucks profusely






Everything was going great, I needed to notch a 2x4 that I was using for blocking. I used the miter saw. I held the board away from the fence to catch the center of the blade, the blade bound up which slammed my hand into the fence which crushed my ole pinky finger!!!



(this finger is still messed up to this day which really ticks me off when I'm trying to play the guitar as I use my pinky frequently )


Once I was able to use my left hand again I continued the drywall, but being that I HATE drywall work it was very hard to make myself go down there and do it.

Today I will be doing the final sanding of the room so I figured it was time to bring this thread back to life here at our new site. More pic's to come later today

Can't wait for the update

I hear you loud and clear about drywall work.

Can't wait to see how the room turns out

for hatting it you did a dam good job my friend and i remember when you where on here with your bloody finger good times

Drake-tripod wrote:for hatting it you did a dam good job my friend and i remember when you where on here with your bloody finger good times

As soon as I came upstairs I was either talking to you in chat or texts... can't remember but you were right there with me. You're the reason there was a photo of it, you just had to see the carnage. I remember the wife telling me to put ice on it, I told her I'd chew it off first .

As soon as I finish my pot of coffee... I'm headed down there and I'll take the camera with me.

lol yea good times i remember that to well get to work lil man

I envy you your project. Looks like it´s gonna be a good size room. How many tanks are you planing to have in there?

Gee, Mike, it's been so long, I had forgotten all about your fish room project!

And if you had listened to your wife and used that ice, your finger might be all better by now.

Maybe this would be something for your fish room Mike.


http://www.aquanet.tv/Video/247

That's pretty awesome Håkan!!!

I'm afraid you'll be disappointed in my little operation after seeing that tho

Rift_Lakes_Rule wrote:That's pretty awesome Håkan!!!

I'm afraid you'll be disappointed in my little operation after seeing that tho

Have´nt your wife already told you that size does´nt matter .

yea that tank would be better with some fronts some petros and feather fins

Drywall Phase COMPLETE!!!







I really like how the bulkhead turned out.




Next Step, Paint

looks good but the wife's gonna kill ya when she sees that chair

LOL!!!

What's really funny... now that I look at the pictures on here, I can see 2 spots on the ceiling that need sanded!!!

Man! I cant wait to see this thing progress! You have done great work so far.

We use to have that same sheet you have hanging in the door.. when we first got married!
Good JOb!

Very nice Mike. Your making me jealous

Looks good Mike, but a good think you had all of that qualified help.
You would have been 2 years getting done.

I want to see a plaque with their names on it.

I can't wait to see the finished product.

Wow, great work. your giving me ideas for when i get a house lol

nice man and whatst that stupid sheet for? and what chair yall talking about?

Drake-tripod wrote:nice man and whatst that stupid sheet for? and what chair yall talking about?

Oh boy, now I know why he can't write properly. HE IS BLIND............


Mike, this looks awesome so far. Now don't screw it up you hear...............

Mike I hope you have an automatic water change system planned for that room.

I agree work smart not hard!

Thanks everyone!!!

I noticed something looks a lil different in the fishroom today.



Got the ceiling painted

But Wait!!! What's that???









One wall painted... but wait!!! What the!!!












When I was building my house, I was told I wasn't a true Redneck if I didn't move into it before it was finished... which I did

Should the fishroom be any different?

Heyall Naawwww!!!

Love the blue!