我们大多数人熟悉的观念之一是“人洞”。房子的这个房间通常致力于我们享受运动，大型电视屏幕和成人饮料的享受。
In the best of circumstances, it is where we go off to when we need solitude or when our significant other doesn’t want to watch 12 consecutive hours of some sporting event or a Game of Thrones marathon. Some of us are not lucky to have a room like this, but in its stead we have a “fish room”.
在最佳情况下，这个房间也可能是我们的孤独或放松场所，或者我们不断修改和隐藏我们的第三大投资及其相关设备。如果您确实有一间鱼房，我只是在部分开玩笑，因为它是您的房屋和汽车之后的第三大投资，但是如果做得正确，它可以带给您与任何一个一样多的享受。与汽车不同，它不是折旧的资产，但是就像房子一样，它可以是一个金钱坑。
So what exactly is a “fish room”? It can be anything from a closet, basement space or cubby hole adjacent to the tank where you hide equipment. Or in the best of circumstances it can be where you house your tanks, their equipment and where you can relax and enjoy them.
我很幸运，因为我在我拥有的每所房屋以及我租用的第一套房里都有一个鱼房。因此，我认为我很容易讨论做事，而不是建立养鱼室。甚至在考虑一间乡间别墅之前，就知道关系都与妥协和权衡有关。
So if you think you can just say honey I’m going to commandeer the entire basement for my tanks and be on your merry way, usually you will be wrong. Getting a fish room of my very own cost me a new car for her, a new car and deck, and the construction and purchase of a large new home where I got a bay of the garage for my fish room.
Once you do have a room to call your own for fish plan what you want and where before getting started as you only have one chance to do this right. As with any project of this magnitude, take measurements, make drawings and take your time, there is no reason to rush.
The first thing I suggest you do once you can have your room is figure out how big you want your aquarium to be. In my case when I had a basement room I had a 240-gallon tank followed by a 560-gallon tank in it. When I got the bay in the garage I was able to move up to a 1200-gallon tank. In each instance though I had easy ground level access to the room.
So if you do not have that, you made to think smaller as moving a 500 or 1000-gallon tank into a basement down stairs is not going to work. So in this instance you will need to not only think of how much space you have, but also how you are going to get the tank and it’s stand and ancillary equipment into that space. However, if you are dead set on having a huge tank in such a space you can always build it on site. Just remember that most tanks have a finite life and some day you may need to dismantle it to get it out.
If the fish room is not going to be on the ground floor or on a cement slab, then you need to consider how its weight is going to affect the structural integrity of your home. If you are going to have a tank of any size in this room, then you may need to consult an engineer to determine first if the floor can structurally support this and second what will happen to the water should a leak occur or in the worst case the tank split.
我已经看到这两种情况都发生了，结果并不漂亮。因此，我强烈建议在此房间内安装某种地板排水管，以使泄漏或坦克倒塌不是整个房屋的灾难。我认为在附近的地板排水管方面也是一个好主意，因为总是有溢出物和水，而且如果没有排水，它将走到某个地方，通常是最糟糕的地方。因此，有地板排水会最大程度地减少水引起的问题的可能性。
Once you have determined the size tank you want to have in your fish room draw up a floor plan to scale and see how the tank fits into the space of the room. In my opinion at the very least you should be able to work on the tank from at least three sides and if the tank is especially wide or deep you should be able to work on it from all sides. But if you can only work on it from two sides the sides should be front and back.
设置图时，请确保显示如何访问储罐周围的所有空间，以免储罐阻止任何东西。我一直在一个坦克室里放置水箱，以至于当坦克的引擎盖处于适当位置时，它阻止了进入保险丝盒的访问，但可以抬起它以允许进入。
这似乎没什么大不了的，因为我们大多数人都没有规律地进入断路器盒。但是，请考虑一下，断路器通常是什么时候行程：最不合时宜的时间或半夜。
谁想必须抬起引擎盖才能将其翻转回去。因此，在执行图表时，请确保不仅储罐，而且没有任何相关设备会阻塞门，或者加热器或交流通风口，因此请确保将它们绘制到图中。
After this the next thing to look at is the electrical supply, that is how many outlets will you need, how many amps will the tank and the related equipment use and how close to the tank and the equipment will they need to be.
您不需要每件设备的插座，因为您可以从电源带中运行许多低安培的设备，但是功率带添加到所使用的放大器中，一旦您超过一定的阈值，它们就会绊倒。
因此，当您计划房间时，您应该计划让电工设置所需的插座数量以及您要放置它们的位置。您还应该计划让他们自己的单独行。
我的每个鱼室都有至少两个独立的电路专门为它们。这样做的目的是，如果任何有途径的线条都不会导致其他任何房屋电路造成干扰。
我从我的第一个鱼室里学到了这一点，在那里，鱼室的电路及其附着的插座将在最不合时宜的时间内出现，这通常会导致讨论。因此，为了防止这种情况发生，我建议您给您的鱼房自己的专用电路。
最后一件事。您认为需要更多的媒体。总是有一些需要电力的新设备，因此当您建造房间时，还可以安装更多电源窗口。
While electricity is the life blood of a fish room because of all the equipment a fish room requires, water is also a crucial element of the fish room. And unlike electricity which only flows in one direction to the fish room, water moves in both directions.
That is a fish room will require clean fresh water to not only fill the tank(s), but also to replace water lost to evaporation, for water changes and for the quarantine tank, which no fish room should be without.
Conversely waste water and water from cleaning will need to be removed once it is used. So you will not only need a source of freshwater in your fish room, but you will also need a drain of some type.
正如我在上面建议的那样，地板排水是必需的，但是我也认为在水槽上的另一个排水管在鱼室中也是一个好主意，因为这只是使很多事情更容易做到。对我来说，业余爱好中最糟糕的琐事之一是出于任何原因在房子周围灌输水桶。
因此，当您设计鱼室时，应考虑所有这些，以便易于去和去除水。而且，如果他们很容易做到这一点，也很可能会更频繁地做。
水排水以除去水是鱼室中的必需品之一。经常被忽视的另一个是NED去除经常在鱼室中积累的湿度。当您有一个坦克，甚至只是一个大的污水池，撇冰器和相关设备移动水时，房间的湿度可能会变得压倒性。
而且，如果在鱼室里湿度高，它也可以溢出到房屋的其余部分。因此，在设计养鱼室时，应包括一种除湿方法。这可能很简单，就像在湿度水平达到特定点或复合物时打开的小房间除湿风扇一样，就像在炉子和空调中添加整个房屋的除湿机一样。
Regardless of which route you choose, you need to make sure excess humidity does not become a problem as even a relatively small tank can evaporate a fair amount of water over time. And like the tank itself you also have to make allowances for removal of this additional wastewater. So a means for draining the dehumidifier needs to be designed in to the fish room.
一旦所有这些东西都被吸引到鱼室里，下一步要考虑的是所有设备将去哪里。如果储罐在房间里，它将全部适合在水箱下，储罐或储罐周围或位置。
虽然鱼室是您的私人庇护所会完成的。
I strongly suggest that when setting up this room when the skimmers and pumps are drawn in they be where they can be easily accessed so that maintenance is easy to do and doesn’t require acrobatic skills, which was one of the shortcomings of my first fish room.
除此之外，我还建议您定期做的某些事情，例如在房间里设计水的变化，以便可以快速，轻松地完成。也就是说，如果您可以允许水库容纳淡水，并且（或）从长远来看，（或）构成水以进行水的变化，这将使它们更容易。
您不想每次要换水时都必须混合桶或更糟糕的拖船。设计房间，以使换水尽可能轻松，您更有可能会定期做它们，并且不会损害您的享受时间。
类似地，在您的鱼房中设计一些存储空间，以保持测试套件和维护设备，使其触手可及。如果您准备好使用测试设备的赔率，那么您会比在某个地方的盒子里更频繁地这样做，甚至需要花费一些时间才能找到它。
您测试越快地进行操作，结果就越可靠。维护也是如此，因此您需要的工具，例如玻璃清洁剂，剃须刀等方便，因此您也可以快速找到它们。
,也有地方和钩子毛巾、paper towels and things to dry up spills handy too as there will be water in your fish room so keeping it from being in places you don’t want should be designed in when you set up the room.
You want your fish room to be tidy and neat so that when your significant other sneaks a peak at it there is not any conflict about your housekeeping skills. In my own experience when my fish room was neat and uncluttered my tanks seemed to look better too. And no I was not getting baked in my fish room, it is just how it seemed to me and anyone else who I let into my room.
So far all I have talked about is the utility of the fish room, but when I have set up my fish I have tried to make them more than just a room to hold equipment or a tank. I try to make them be my room and I try to make them fun to be in. This is especially important as for a lot of us our fish rooms are like an oasis away from all of the everyday stress we face.
Because I have looked at mine that way I have tried to make them a room where I can totally get away from everything. My current fish room not only has my 300-gallon display tank, but it also houses my 90-gallon frag/quarantine tank and a 26 gallon nano tank. But that is not all, the room also has a tv on the wall as well as its own bathroom.
Besides those I have also put a big overstuffed chair in the room as well with a perfect vantage point for all of the tanks. And since I get Wi-Fi there as well, I can hunker down in the room and spend an entire day just relaxing and watching the tank. It is a comfortable place to hang out in, especially in the winter.
对于我们许多人来说，我们的鱼房是我们的“人洞穴”，当我们从事业余爱好时，我们可以放松，工作或摆脱事物。我们中的许多人都花了大量时间在坦克上，因此，当我们可以为自己的爱好提供一个空间时，就不可能奇怪。但是，与大多数爱好的房间不同，我们需要自定义它以充分享受它。
But when we do it right our fish rooms can be a special room where we can get away. It is funny that as I recall when my kids were young and would come out to visit me when I was working in the fish room they would usually sit quietly and watch the tank and watch me work and ask questions when they saw me doing something that they did not understand.
So a lot of the time it was a place to escape for them as well. I am not planning on moving again, but if I did I would only move to a house where I could have another fish room. After having one for the last 30 years I could not imagine doing a tank without one.
