Aqua-Bar

[CoNMaN]

My good buddy Ryan is heading off for Iraq (because our boys and girls in the armed forces have to finish what Dubbua started...) And before he left he wanted to build our house a bar. (one of his specialties is carpentry) And so we started drawing up plans. And what we came up with is a bar with an aquarium in the middle of it. The bar is 100" long, with a 50" space in teh middle for the 55 gal tank, that leaves 25" on each side of the tank for shelving in the back (duh!). Ill have to get some pictures of it to post, and show how we done it. But Just thought I'd post and tell ya all about it.

[Lotus]

Sounds like a cool idea

Those kinds of projects always worry me that there won't be room to access the equipment properly or do water changes/aquascaping. I guess it takes a lot of planning

[fishdude07]

sounds awesome! good luck!

[R0UNDEYEZ]

You could make the counter of the bar be the hood for the tank with the lights and have it so its on hinges for access to the tank for water changes and stuff like that.

[CoNMaN]

Roundeyez that is exactly what we are in the process of doing. We have the top on two hinges and the top is also slip right down the middle so we open it like a two draw bridges. and the lights are long enough to rest on the top of the tank, and we just pick the lights up when we want to play in the water.

lotus we have found that doing anything with the filter is difficult until we file down a 2x4 that will give us some more room to take it out easier

[WGC-Katana]

This thing sounds awsome Conman. Can't wait to see some pics.

[Orion]

I am assumeing that you are using a HOB on this , or at least in the plans. If you changed to a canister then the size of filter equipment that was acutaly in the tank would be greatly reduced, and therefore would be easier to work with.

I had a co-worker who was stationed in Japan several years ago and they had a bar with an aquarium in it in there house. I belive that he said that he paied about $50 US for it, and it was at least a 75 gallon tank! It was marine, and he caught all the livestock himself, and got his water for water changes form the ocean, as well as the sand and all the deco.

[CoNMaN]

I received the tank for free and yes it came with HOB, I have been thinking of changing to canaster, but was just too excited to get it setup. So I just used the HOB and am probably gonna add a canaster and then remove the HOB after a bit.

[BigDaddy420]

im thinking of building a bar around my 55, was this project ever finished or anyone have pictures of a similar project?

[CoNMaN]

ha, wierd the day i come back someone has a question about it. Yes it was completed and I will upload pictures of it in progress when i go home today.