what should I do to make this work.

[StirCrazy]

I am trying to plan for some renovations. we are going to pretty much double the size of our house and I have gotten royal assent to make a service room off of one wall of the famly room to house all the stuff for a tank that will be built in to the wall.

personaly I am thinking a room that will be 6 to 8 feet wide and run the entire lenght of the wall I am putting the tank into.. (about 16 to 24 feet depending on which wall) I will also use the non fish part of this room for storage so it is not just a masive space waisted.

what I need help wth is what I should do in construction to make this room work.. I am upgrading the power to the house from a 100 amp to a 200 amp so I thought maby a 50 amp dedicated box for the room would be a good idea..

the tank I am going to use will most likely be a 180 gal from sea star (going to get it in with the building loan)

but any ideas you might have please let me know asap as we have to chose a archatect and get this ball rollin

Steve

[Greg Moore]

First off I would do the room in 'blue board' (water resistant dry wall used in bath rooms).

Next I would make a choice with regards to heating it. If it were an interior walled room, I would not heat it at all, especically with central heating ducts. I would add an exhaust fan that is triggered on extreem humidity only. Using all water proof construction (no carpet, blue board, oil based paints), I would just let it stay really humid. This would cut down on tank evap, tank heating needs, house heating (through exhausted heated air) etc..