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Old 04/06/2006, 11:37 AM
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Question Equipment room help

After having a major water spill the other day in my fish room I'm thinking about moving the tank. long story.. Basically puppy Vs waterline=Ro/DI on carpet floor lol. I plan on changing out the carpet now so I have to move the tank anyway.. It would be moved to a room where the wall goes into the garage.. I've got room for about a 13' by 5'6" equipment room. My tank is a custom starfire 180 with an external overflow.There are some pics in my Gallery . Its standerd size not counting the overflow.

Anyway what do you guys think? Should I do an inwall where you just see the front? Or should I build the tank into the wall but have just the back in the equipment room so you can see the front and the sides.. I plan on having the tank sealed off from the rest of the house reguardless.. All the moist hot air and noise will be in the equipment room in the garage and no where else.. With the entire tank in the wall there wont be much room in the equipment room.. My tank also has starfire on the front and ends so I kinda of hate to just cover the ends up lol..

My other question is what do you think would be better a window ac vented outside to cool the equipment room or a chiller outside to just cool the tank? I know with such a small room I'll have to have some way to cool the tank with all the lights and pumps ect..
I'm leaning to the window ac simply cause they are cheap and easy to replace.. I can run 220V to the room very easily.. Not sure if most chillers are 110 or not but I know most cooling units run alot better on 220. Should be alot cheaper to run.. Plus having the room cooler would be nice when working in there. But I'm not sure if just keeping that room cool would be enough to cool the tanks.. Sigh so many choices

Will
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