BACKGROUND
Hey Guys,
It has been a while since I’ve actually had a tank… I broke it down just before my second kid was born- which was over 5 years ago- and now I have THREE kids ages 6 and under.
When I sold everything off, I swore that when things settled down and I got back in, I would try to do a peninsula style tank. Well, the time has finally come!
So, as you saw in the title, the dimensions are 52”L x 36”W x 26”T. I really wanted to give myself a ton of depth so that all viewable sides of the tank gave me the much-coveted “side view” and, ultimately, this was the maximum peninsula footprint I could fit in my house.
Now you might be asking what I mean by “Southern California Tank Room”… well, I’ll just say that I don’t have a big enough house to dedicate an entire room to remotely house my sump/equipment, so I figured I might as well put it outside the house (where there is a little more room). I’ll be going into a ton more depth on this later.
My plan with this build thread is to not only share as many pictures as I can, but also go into a decent amount of detail with each component of the build and, more importantly, why I decided to go that route, since I personally find it more useful and interesting when build threads give their rationale on decisions (on equipment and approaches). Also, full transparency, the plan for this build started back in January 2020 and the tank arrived July 18, 2020, so I’ve been able to document as I progressed and now share with you a current-day accumulation of that progress rather than showing you progress in real-time, since I’m impatient and would hate to update the thread sporadically at the beginning.
So, without further ado, let’s get this started!
Hey Guys,
It has been a while since I’ve actually had a tank… I broke it down just before my second kid was born- which was over 5 years ago- and now I have THREE kids ages 6 and under.
When I sold everything off, I swore that when things settled down and I got back in, I would try to do a peninsula style tank. Well, the time has finally come!
So, as you saw in the title, the dimensions are 52”L x 36”W x 26”T. I really wanted to give myself a ton of depth so that all viewable sides of the tank gave me the much-coveted “side view” and, ultimately, this was the maximum peninsula footprint I could fit in my house.
Now you might be asking what I mean by “Southern California Tank Room”… well, I’ll just say that I don’t have a big enough house to dedicate an entire room to remotely house my sump/equipment, so I figured I might as well put it outside the house (where there is a little more room). I’ll be going into a ton more depth on this later.
My plan with this build thread is to not only share as many pictures as I can, but also go into a decent amount of detail with each component of the build and, more importantly, why I decided to go that route, since I personally find it more useful and interesting when build threads give their rationale on decisions (on equipment and approaches). Also, full transparency, the plan for this build started back in January 2020 and the tank arrived July 18, 2020, so I’ve been able to document as I progressed and now share with you a current-day accumulation of that progress rather than showing you progress in real-time, since I’m impatient and would hate to update the thread sporadically at the beginning.
So, without further ado, let’s get this started!