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Dale · #1 11-17-2006, 05:21 AM

I decided to go with two themes on this project:

to house a temperate, west coast tidal zone reef
to use recycled, DIY, cheap, low or no tech equipment.

I wanted to house the system in my garage (to make use of the colder temps) but be able to view it from the house, so the first step was to create a porthole in the wall.

I waited till my wife went out of town and...

Here's the entryway

and the garage side

tearing off the drywall

framing in the porthole

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Dale · #2 11-17-2006, 05:32 AM

Finished garage side

and entryway side

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medical marijuana

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #3 11-17-2006, 05:34 AM

Sounds very interesting. Hopefully it won't overheat in the summer.

BTW, when my wife went out of town to Malaysia for a month, I upgraded a whole buncha stuff in my tanks too.

Gotta love those trips.

Anthony

WWWD · #4 11-17-2006, 05:37 AM

Don't garages get really hot in the summer? Mine always did, are you going to run a chiller? Also is your tank going to be double pained?

EmilyB · #5 11-17-2006, 05:45 AM

You probably don't have to park vehicles in garages in your neck of the woods

Chaloupa · #6 11-17-2006, 05:58 AM

Way too cool! Neat idea too....interesting one to follow along on!

kari · #7 11-17-2006, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by EmilyB

You probably don't have to park vehicles in garages in your neck of the woods

What, people park their cars in garages? I thought that was only if you had two or more garages.

You may have already planned for this but I think(guessing) the building code requires the opening in the garage/house wall needs to be somewhat sealed to prevent gases entering living space. Since framing a tight fit against the tank is not a good idea you will need some kind of flexible filler for the gap.