Permission Granted

[Dr. P]

Wooohooo!! Finally!! I got a letter today stating that the planning application for the conversion of my garage into storage....coughcoughfish roomcoughcough has been completed.

For some crazy reason I have been reimbursed the £75 that accompanied the application. I was also told that there will be no inspection after the work has been completed so I can move the tanks etc in as soon as possible. I can also drop the fake storage story

Ewee, get your working head on ma man......work will start as soon as possible.

[Tristan]

Excellent, great news.

You will have to take photos to show the progress etc. It would make an interesting article.

Good luck with it

Tristan

[Dr. P]

You will have to take photos to show the progress etc. It would make an interesting article.

Will do mate

[Tristan]

Actually, I might have a fit of jealousy coming on have longed for a fish house for a number of years now.
How many tanks do you hope to have and what will you be stocking them with?

[Dr. P]

Going to shoot for around 10-15 Twenty Gallon tanks on a rack along one side of the room. I was planning on breeding various Apistogramma and more than likely some Corys (to keep Ewee happy ) but now we have a breeding pair of Zebras, I can see a lot more on the horizon.

Also in one corner, I will have a 200G tank for larger cichlids/oddballs.

[Tristan]

I have a dream tank that would hold merodontotus tigrinus, a golden red tailed arowana and a breeding group of Motoro stingers. As i said just a dream

Our local shop had a jurensis in with a motoro and the jurensis bought it with a sting to the head - nasty stuff.

Your fish house sounds cool though - Keep us posted

Tristan

[Tristan]

Please excuse my ignorance in not asking how your Fry is (are)

[Dr. P]

Theyre doing fine. Still in the cave with the father!!! I still get the occassional glimpse of them now and then.

[jerms55555]

Great Job Dr. P
I doing the same with my garage! But I have a question, you said you were going to put a rack for 12-20 gal tanks, how are you going to make that? I have been searching the internet for awhile and have not really found anything. How were you going to pull this off? With wood, metal, etc? I have blue rams, checkboard cichlids and hopefully zebras that I need to build some sort of grow out tanks. Any help would be helpful.

[Dr. P]

Its going to be wooden racks but you would have to speak to Ewee as he is the guy actually doing the racks. I am sure he will reply soon.

[du ma]

check this out dr p
you might be interested

http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=36074


for those that have their fish in the garage, how does the insulation work when it comes to extreme heat/cold??

[Dr. P]

Thats an interesting link. Thank you!

[Rob]

Here's a link for Dexion Rackin. It can be pricey, but you quite often see it appearing un E-bay for pennies. Only problem is pick up.

I don't use it as I have a midget living in my garage ( car), but it really is the best possible stuff for fish tanks.

http://www.dexion-anglia.co.uk/racking.html

Check it out.

rob

[Dr. P]

They do look pretty cool but I can't find any reference to costs? Am I blind? Are there prices on the website somewhere and I just aint looking hard enough?

I tried ebay too but couldn't find any.

[Rob]

HI Dr.P

Your right, there are no prices on the site, but I will see if I can find some just to give you an idea.

rob