yea, i thought about putting it in the basement. thats just solid concrete floor there. but the problem is that its usually cooler in there, cuz we dont use it as much. plus like, the tropical fish are SOOOOOOO touchy, its unreal. Ask Bobby, he’ll tell you. U remember that power outage we had for like 3 days? all my fish died then. i just cleaned my tank and put it in the garage.