Well I finally got the line up of pins I have been wanting. Thought I would post some pics of my games room. Finished all the work on the basement just before xmas.
Still a few pins I have on my wish list but I have hid the list from the wife....lol
I am still new to this great hobby, But this board helps alot with figuring stuff out, And A.Stebel has helped alot with a few machines, and some tech support.

                                                     Paul

Paul, your gameroom is absolutely awsome.

Space is well used, more than only pins and vids, couldnt be better.

I especially like the big aquarium.

Congrats, i would love to live in your house

Quoted from Azatotht

Paul, your gameroom is absolutely awsome.



I especially like the big aquarium.

Same thing for me,Very nice and great game room Paul  

Jacques

Quoted from Azatotht

I especially like the big aquarium.

Me three .. its on my todo list in the 'Dream house'

Nice gameroom

WOW !

GREAT games room !


...but your dart board is a bit too low for my taste ... !



Steph

Thanks guys the aquarium is my other obsession.

lol I was waiting for someone to say that about the dart board was thinking that when I took the photo.

It use to be where I put the pins so we are still deciding where to relocate it to, somewhere safe once the drinks start the darts can end up anywhere...lol

I'm also gonna go on a limb and say you likely have no small rugrats running around !

Here what your games room "would" look like if you did...



Steph

Yep my days of my rec room looking like that are over My boys are 17 and 18
Now I just have to keep an eye on my beer...lol

Congratulation very nice gameroom,nice to be there

Nice room, how many gallon is the fish tank?

Waaoooh!  

Nice row of pins! And what about the fish tank...

My gf is asking : ''how can you ''clean'' this aquarium?!?!?!?! ''
So I'm asking : '' WOW Why don't we copy this in our new house...?  ''

Nice job!!

Eric

The fishtank is 400 gallons with another 200 gallons inbehind the system that you can't see.

very easy to maintain it is its own eco system a natural salt water reef.It is just as an addicting hobby as the pins...lol

Here is a shot of the portholes I have to the left of the big tank. and a closer shot of the main tank.

Nice job!!!!
I wish that nobody trow is ball to the fish tank when playing pool......  

That is just outstanding, an inspiration!

Looks great.

I had to give up on fish. Away far too often. They ended up having about as much action as your topper with power off when I got home.

Did you have a salt water or fresh water tank?

Forget the pins, I love the Aquarium too.  I used to do a Micro-Reef when the hobby first took a big turn into Live Rock / Sand and Protein Skimmers with Julian Sprung's work (I think that was about 15 years ago or more now - anyone want a first edition copy of "The Reef Aquarium" signed by J. Charles Delbeek and Julian Sprung?).  I built a large protein skimmer for my tiny 20 gal micro- reef with 10 gal sump.  Before that it was always freshwater.  When I was a kid I had 10 aquariums going in my bedroom at once.

In any case, then I became a parent, which takes up 50% of my free time.  Now I fix pins, which takes up the other 50% and all the surplus funds, had to give up something.  

I know 'if done right' motto could apply

But how much work and regular maintenance is involved in a Salt Water Aquarium (100+ gal)?..  I have heard responses that run the gamut from twice daily to a monthly or longer inspections/cleaning/feeding, etc.

I have owned a 30 gal fresh water tank at one point; but after combining an overly aggressive cichlid that ended up killing everything one day. A girlfriend who does not like fish (particularly in the living room),  I decided to suspend my aquatic activities and just stick to scuba diving for the moment.  I should mention at the time the fresh water tank was relatively easy to maintain, but had always heard that salt water was a whole new investment level in both time and money.

What a truly awesome rec room ... hard standard tolive up to.

Congrats!

That's a room I could die peacefully in...

I think it comes down to what you think is alot of work.  I feed the fish daily takes about 5 mins.
I check all my equipment to make sure everything is running right maybe another 5 mins.
Now while doing all this you are looking at the aquarium so not really work.Every saturday I spend about an hour cleaning equipment and testing water perimeters  Once a month you have to do a 10% water change this helps replace any missing minerals. and helps reduce nitrates.
The glass needs cleaned about every three days, this is easy it is a scrubbing pad with two magnets, one inside the tank and one outside the tank, you just slide it along the glass and it cleans the inside.  that is about all the cleaning required. no vacuuming sand or anything like that.
You introduce a clean up crew of snails star fish and hermit crabs that keep the rock work and alge clean.

As far as money it is like anything sky is the limit.But you can start with a simple system and build on that. big thing is to buy the right equipment the first time so you don't end up buying something more then once.  My system is fully automated runs off my pc. so when I'm away I donot have to worry. I just have someone feed them.

Anything you want to know just drop me a line and I will help you out. 100 gallon is a nice size system, more then likely it would be a 110 gallon as that is a standard size. Or you can go custom size like my tank. Saltwater systems have come along way over the past ten years and it is alot more affordable now compared to what it use to be.

Quoted from Meat Popsicle

I know 'if done right' motto could apply

But how much work and regular maintenance is involved in a Salt Water Aquarium (100+ gal)?..  I have heard responses that run the gamut from twice daily to a monthly or longer inspections/cleaning/feeding, etc.

I have owned a 30 gal fresh water tank at one point; but after combining an overly aggressive cichlid that ended up killing everything one day. A girlfriend who does not like fish (particularly in the living room),  I decided to suspend my aquatic activities and just stick to scuba diving for the moment.  I should mention at the time the fresh water tank was relatively easy to maintain, but had always heard that salt water was a whole new investment level in both time and money.

Quoted from muligan

Anything you want to know just drop me a line and I will help you out.

Thanks for the offer.  The aquarium will be a few years in the future, but I will be sure to drop you a line when that time comes.

-matt

My updated line up.

Nice lineup!

This thread is a great example of how this hobby becomes a sickness....

Looking sweet Paul. Seems every week you get a new Pin or Vid.

Time for AN ADDITION!!!

lol  I'm trying to add one more hard to find the popular titles.

My ever changing line up...   lol

Nice.

Looks like JD blew you right out of your slippers.

lol those are the wifes. her favorite game.