Hi All,
Been a while since I posted something so I thought I'll share my new journey with you guys. So, I have been wanting a new tank for a long while now "one without scrathes"! So I started looking around and finally decided to go custom. I purchased the glass and was going to build the tank myself but, then I got the great news of being told I need to move, as the house I rented was sold. Hmmm
knew it was coming but did not expect it that soon. So I had the tank assembled for me hoping to get it up and running before the move so it can be just a straight forward swap and go.
Needless to say non of that happened so I had a horrible move and there was a miscommunication between myself, the agent and the new owner, and they started moving in the day I had to move my tank so it was a
day for me, the move ended with me losing 2 fish and 2 anemones!! I was not a happy chappie.
Then came my tank build! The guy that supplied the glass to me gave me the wrong sides so I had to get the swapped and re-polished as the glass supplied was not polished. Then we found that the braces were still a couple of mm to long, so I took the glass back to the guys that helped me to polish it. We agreed that the amount that needed to be taken off will not be viable to cut as it will break the glass so they need to polish it off and it will take a week as they are busy. Then later that week I got a call to say they are going to do my glass today so they will call me when done, half an hour later got a call: "ahmm sorry sir they tried to cut your glass and it broke
". I then had to buy new glass as own glass gets done at customers own risk. Then the guys that build my overflow box for me screwed up as well, delays, delays and more delays.
At the end of the day, If anything came out of this is, the realisation that if you want a new custom tank, go to a tank builder, get them to do it for you!! They source everything you just get a tank.
I finally received my tank about 2 weeks ago and started working on it slowly as now there is no rush for it to get done quickly.
So, here my journey finally starts
I built a wooden stand in December already waiting for the tank
The long awaited tank arrived
Layed down the base board and added in the substrate, my son thought it can be his fort
Started building the cupboard around the frame.
And then today completed the tank plumbing, painted the back glass and fitted the front doors. Still need to add the door handles and so on.
May the tank only give me great pleasure from here on forward and some happy reefing
I'll continue posting pics and updates as my journey progresses.
Been a while since I posted something so I thought I'll share my new journey with you guys. So, I have been wanting a new tank for a long while now "one without scrathes"! So I started looking around and finally decided to go custom. I purchased the glass and was going to build the tank myself but, then I got the great news of being told I need to move, as the house I rented was sold. Hmmm
knew it was coming but did not expect it that soon. So I had the tank assembled for me hoping to get it up and running before the move so it can be just a straight forward swap and go.Needless to say non of that happened so I had a horrible move and there was a miscommunication between myself, the agent and the new owner, and they started moving in the day I had to move my tank so it was a
day for me, the move ended with me losing 2 fish and 2 anemones!! I was not a happy chappie.Then came my tank build! The guy that supplied the glass to me gave me the wrong sides so I had to get the swapped and re-polished as the glass supplied was not polished. Then we found that the braces were still a couple of mm to long, so I took the glass back to the guys that helped me to polish it. We agreed that the amount that needed to be taken off will not be viable to cut as it will break the glass so they need to polish it off and it will take a week as they are busy. Then later that week I got a call to say they are going to do my glass today so they will call me when done, half an hour later got a call: "ahmm sorry sir they tried to cut your glass and it broke
". I then had to buy new glass as own glass gets done at customers own risk. Then the guys that build my overflow box for me screwed up as well, delays, delays and more delays.At the end of the day, If anything came out of this is, the realisation that if you want a new custom tank, go to a tank builder, get them to do it for you!! They source everything you just get a tank.
I finally received my tank about 2 weeks ago and started working on it slowly as now there is no rush for it to get done quickly.
So, here my journey finally starts
I built a wooden stand in December already waiting for the tank
The long awaited tank arrived
Layed down the base board and added in the substrate, my son thought it can be his fort
Started building the cupboard around the frame.
And then today completed the tank plumbing, painted the back glass and fitted the front doors. Still need to add the door handles and so on.
May the tank only give me great pleasure from here on forward and some happy reefing
I'll continue posting pics and updates as my journey progresses.
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