I am moving today and moving the 30 gal out of the basement when the 60gal comes in this weekend. A big thing for me was convincing grandma that I wasn't going to get water all over the floor so I could put the 60gallon on the main floor. In this house, the basement is my man cave so I'm constantly down here giving the tank attention, but in the new house, the basement is mostly storage and I almost fought with her try to convince her that the tank wouldn't be good down there. Of course its ridiculous to think I won't get water on the carpet sometimes, but for the sake of my argument, it worked lol. The thing I've fought with the most having a smaller (30gal) tank in the basement is water temp. Ambient temp in my basement is 65 so I get lots of heat loss in my sump and even with a 200w heater, have to have it set at 82 to achieve 80 degrees, this is a setup for disaster because heaters fail a lot, wouldn't have been surprised if my tank had cooked in the 2 months it has been up.