I am a long time hobyist and have built, torn down, rebuilt, and moved several fish rooms in the past few decades. My main interest is in cichlids of Central Americaand I curently keep 20 or so tanks, mostly connected on central filtration out in the garage.
Wow, sounds like you have one heck of a setup! I've got a 125gl fully planted, 20gl gonna be planted and 36gl with one Cichlid in it, but thinking of converting it to Sal****er.... been doing tons of homework on it.