Tank - Full Summary

I know some people on here wanted to see some pics of my basement after describing it and the "friends" that live down there. Well I still am undecided about tanks down there but this weekend I will install my RO/DI.

My unused tanks:


My tree trunk floor joists:


An exhaust fan that I am sure can be incorporated into a tank:
...

(click on photo for a closer view)

I'm an aquariast from way back. I've been keeping tanks over 25 years, and had a marine tank over 20 years ago (first marriage) and loved it. My ex-wife gave it away, after the fish died, to one of her boyfriends, who kept a snake in it. My oldest son took my 29 gallon freshwater tank to college with him, and set it up in his fraternity's living room. He now has it in his living room at home. I got a 90 gallon tank just ...

Hi guys! I'mAmy, from west Michigan, full time mom, part time lfs employee. My husband and I got bitten by the sw bug around 3 years ago. Since then, we've gone from a 55 gal "frankenstein" set up to a proper reef. Our current display is 135 gallons on one end of the living room. All the rest of our tanks are down in the basement. Directly under our display is a 125 gal sump and 55 gal refugium. In the utility room, right next to the filtration room, I currently have 4 30-ish gal ...

So right before New Year's Eve I had to go out to Terre Haute, Indiana. I hate going out there but was obliged for family business so we rented a car and made the 10 hour drive(620 miles). My wife actually looking for something to do out there other then do the normal sight seeing(a ton of stuff in town is named after my family but is pretty boring) looked up some things. She found this place there called inland aquatics, I thought OK a nice fish store to waste an hour in. Holy crap was I wrong. ...

Once I got the new tank filled and going everything was great.Days went by (I think 11 or 12 days....)
BIG MISTAKE #2 I discovered Biospira.Naturally wanting to go ahead and start stocking the tank, I did like the LFS guy said and promptly began buying and adding about six fish within two weeks.Well I must have generated even more ammonia than the Biospira could handle because within a week everything was dead but one false percula
So I took my lumps and waited,and waited and ...