Well, a few of you have seen or heard snippits of my tank, and I think I am finally ready to show you really how crazy I am...
Here is what I started with
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Dimensions are 96 x 48 x 36 tall, total capacity is 720G by my clacs.
It is an acrylic tank, which obviously needs a great deal of buffing and polishing
So it started, then looked like this
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Then this:
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Then this:
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At this point I think what the hell did I get myself into, this is always going to look like crap but kept going, and eventually, got it decent.
I don't have any pics of the trip down the stairs (as all hands were busy, but lets just say the stairs are exaclty 36" wide, and the tank is exactly 36" tall, so something had to give - we removed the drywall from the "easy" side of the stairs to give us enough room to fit it in. Here are pics of the repair and replacement. I decided to do all the demolition and moving over the US thanksgiving while my wife was out of town, so she came back to a tank in the basement, and didn't see much of the carnage that was required to get it there.
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So once in the basement, it sat for a few more weeks, I added the background (in the foreground as it sits) by using 100% privacy window tint - should have seen the wierd look I got from the tint guy when I said I wanted to tint a fishtank
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Then the move commenced again.
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So, let the "man, you are crazy" comments begin...
Mark
Here is what I started with
Dimensions are 96 x 48 x 36 tall, total capacity is 720G by my clacs.
It is an acrylic tank, which obviously needs a great deal of buffing and polishing
So it started, then looked like this
Then this:
Then this:
At this point I think what the hell did I get myself into, this is always going to look like crap but kept going, and eventually, got it decent.
I don't have any pics of the trip down the stairs (as all hands were busy, but lets just say the stairs are exaclty 36" wide, and the tank is exactly 36" tall, so something had to give - we removed the drywall from the "easy" side of the stairs to give us enough room to fit it in. Here are pics of the repair and replacement. I decided to do all the demolition and moving over the US thanksgiving while my wife was out of town, so she came back to a tank in the basement, and didn't see much of the carnage that was required to get it there.
So once in the basement, it sat for a few more weeks, I added the background (in the foreground as it sits) by using 100% privacy window tint - should have seen the wierd look I got from the tint guy when I said I wanted to tint a fishtank
Then the move commenced again.
So, let the "man, you are crazy" comments begin...
Mark
