Rico's 240 Gallon Money Pit(Twin 90's)

ricosuave · #1 (**permalink**) 10-04-2007, 11:43 PM

Hello again to all. My wife just informed me that it was time to move my reef down stairs to the yet unfinished basement. I am going to make a large billiard/game room for entertaining. It will be around 3 months or so before I get frame the walls. She(my wife) said that I can do whatever I want, so....here it goes.
First stage of course will be extensive planning. I have not set in stone any type of layout so feel free to offer suggestions or ideas even if they are radically different.
Here is a simple drawing of what I would like to do.
I have one question as of now....How difficult will/would it be to place a tube connecting the two main displays? I would imagine it would have to be acrylic.

ricosuave · #2 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 12:25 AM

Here is the priliminary plumbing on the backside. No pipe sizes have been figured yet.

ricosuave · #3 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 01:00 AM

Here's the preliminary lighting plan. The main displays are for mostly softies and maybe some LPS

ChuckG · #4 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 02:34 AM

Two separate systems would be cheaper.

Adding that connecting tube turns it into a custom job. I assume you want the tube to show as well through the wall. Definately a custom job and expect to pay through the nose for it.

ChuckG · #5 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 02:41 AM

I can't see this working "as is". My eye level in a doorway is approximately at the level where I have added a line.

ricosuave · #6 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 02:58 AM

That part is my wifes idea. She wants to see fish overhead like at ripley's aquarium

ricosuave · #7 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 03:00 AM

The only real agenda that I have is to have at least two displays with one over the other and have both filled with radically different inhabitants

ChuckG · #8 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 03:07 AM

Both filled with radically different inhabitants? If they are connected, they won't be radically different, they will intermingle and become one.

ricosuave · #9 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 03:17 AM

ok let me start more basically, meanwhile I'll research what it would cost to connect the two....
lets start with two tanks one over the other like this

ricosuave · #10 (**permalink**) 10-05-2007, 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChuckG

Both filled with radically different inhabitants? If they are connected, they won't be radically different, they will intermingle and become one.

That is something I didnt think about. I was shooting for something like a softie tank and then maybe a macro tank that only fish would/could travel between