Show off your tank....or tanks.

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I want to see pics of everyones tank or tanks. Post them here.

I envy your spacious fish room...

When we moved in I was told by wife & mother in law they didnt want to see my cr@p (not the word they used) upstairs. I said cool, you may not see me either...

My BF gave me the old Florida room. It had never had any practical use or anything done with it. It did have 3 quality's that make it a great fish room though. 1) no a/c vents. 2) Its tiled. 3) its 4-5" lower than the rest of the house. Its a little cramped and oddly shaped but it works And it has a fair amount of window so it gets a decent amount of sunlight that I think is good for the fish. The ever present algae sucks but that's what razor blades are for

A few older shots of my fishroom

How do you keep the humidity down in that fish room with all those tanks??

Thanks Nick! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one using a commercial grade air pump

Cajun, You don't. Humidity just happens in fish rooms

Very nice!!! And my wife thinks I'm nuts...

The small AC unit helps pull out a lot of humidity in the summer months and I have a dehumidifier that runs in the winter (and produces enough heat to keep the entire fishroom warm).
If I can keep the humidity % in the mid 60's, I feel safe that i'm not growing any molds, HA!

here are a few of mine.






had to sell this one, it was nice

sold this one to








last and least lol (daughter's first tank-now it is a cichlid tank, but no pics)

nick that room is awesome!

Here is my 65g with duboisi & 1 of my 20gs with some baby yellow labs.

Very nice nick. That's the route im headed.

I will have to try and take a pic of my fish room for yall later

Excellent pics eveyone!

Fern, I'd love to see some of your fish room-I'm always curious and eager to learn different and better ways to do things.

This is the other side of what I call the 'hallway'
I learned on this rack just how important it is to not get in a rush and to paint racks BEFORE you get the tanks full of fish on them HA!

Nick im jealous.


How many air pumps do you have running a few big ones?
How many tanks in total do you have? Any show tanks inside the house?

Just the one air pump you can kinda see in the top left of that last pic. I love it! Absolutely silent! About 40 or so tanks in the fishroom but a lot of them are 10s and 20s. I've only got 2 x 125s, 4 x 75s, 1 x 55, 9 x 40BRs as far as any larger tanks but I like the versatility of having more tanks vs just a few whoppers! I've only got a 72BF and a double decker with 40BRs left in the house but I don't really consider any of mine to be show tanks--they're all kinda plain-jane for easy maint. & fish snaggin'

I know what you mean by fish snaggin. Most of mine are plain jane. I have about 20 or so on 1 pump right now. I'm looking to upgrade my air pump so I can add more tanks Again you have a very nice set up and one day I see myself with something like that but I want more!

Its near impossible to catch any fish in my 75g with how heavily I have it planted.... But I do love my plants!
Yes nick it is quite important to paint before the fish I just urethane all of my wood. I don't bother making it look pretty with colored paint. I have my air pump outside because I have to have a bleeder valve on it or I would blow the water right out of the tanks. Its a commercial grade one used for ATU's I forget the brand on it. But it can heavily aerate a 1,800 tank of sewage 8 ft below the pump with 6 ft of head pressure. That should give yall an idea on how much air it moves.... Its a beautiful thing

I will hold off on the full room pics till after I get my next shelf built and setup with 5 more 20g longs this weekend.

Well I decided to go ahead and take some pics. It's my way of procrastinating building the 2nd shelf... Its really hot out
Please ignore the mess
View from the hall



View from the kitchen

Nice. I wish I had tile floors. It would make things easier.

I just wish it wasn't white tile. I'm not very neat when it comes to water changes.
I will be hopefully adding another shelf to the large rack this weekend and setting up 5 more 20g longs on it. If I can find the motivation to do so......

I'm not very neat either plus a couple python mishaps, yeah tile would be good...

Fern what kind of pump do you have on that PVC?

That's my air line. I just have stub outs with several reducers to the regular tubing size.

JACK D wrote:

What is this form you speak of??? What is a show tank??? I gots more pics for yous....

I got the joke! That's my kind of humor!

Fern wrote:

That's my air line. I just have stub outs with several reducers to the regular tubing size.

So you are just running your lines thru there so they are not on the floor and what not? Its several diffrent pumps?