The garage holding system (1 Viewer)

[cstewart79]

It is finally remodel time and the floors in the fish room need to be replaced. I have seen several folks "hold" their coral in rubbermaid containers in the garage with mixed results. I will be selling my current tank and building a similar size in gallons but a rimless tank and a little shorter and easier to work on. Those who have the garage system is it worth it or would you sell it all and just start fresh.

 

[trb]

I know Brian set up one of his 3CC tanks in his garage using one of the plastic bins, it looked like it was working pretty well. When are you planning on doing this? If you need some help, let me know. I'll be working late for quarter end 4/1~4/10, but could help out for a bit if you need some.

Thomas

 

[AnnetteG]

+1 for Brian's system, whatever he has going on, it's working just fine! The corals all look great.

Don't sell it all and start over! I love your tank! Been a while since I've seen it, but I can't imagine selling everything and starting over from scratch when you have as many nice corals & fish as you have!

 

[cstewart79]

Either way I am going with a longer tank so it doesn't cut the room off

 

[crvz]

while I was a bit of a different scenario (moving vs. remodel), I wish I would have sold all my livestock. We were homeless for about 6 weeks, and it was a pain and I lost a lot.

 

[cstewart79]

The remodel will be at least 2 months working basically on weekend. The pending heat scares me and I hate to lose awesome coral.

 

[crvz]

ultimately, to save what I could, I took frags of everything and set up a small tank in my garage with a way over-rated chiller.

 

[tedu]

I had stuff in tubs in the garage for a long time. Would probably not do it again either.

 

[Slayer311]

Currently run our 180g in the garage, lasted last summer with a 1/3hp chiller just fine. The reef never suffered excess heat, easy to keep temp at 80 degrees during the summer, and 77 in the winter.

Keith

 

[trb]

The remodel will be at least 2 months working basically on weekend. The pending heat scares me and I hate to lose awesome coral.

Could you set up a temporary insulated fish room in the garage, attached to the house through the door to the garage so it gets AC? Probably wouldn't cost more than $75-80 for 2x4s, some sheetrock and some insulation.

 

[flexrac]

go to walmart or target, get a cople of those rubber maids for clothes and fill them with your water from the tank, add a heater and one powerhead. keep them in the house. sell the fish.

 

[majikmike9999]

if your going to do the garage thing i would seriously look into chillers, i am sure it could be done succesfully, look at Quocs tank it is one of the best that i have seen and is housed entirely in his garage?

 

[lesd]

Chris - I actually have 2 extra chillers (a 1/4 and a 1/3). So let me know if you need to borrow some chiller capacity.

-- Les

 

[RR-MAN]

The remodel will be at least 2 months working basically on weekend. The pending heat scares me and I hate to lose awesome coral.

Keep the corals if you have nice pieces...these days it's hard to find decent corals.