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[smoke15]

IN 1995 when we moved to hawaii from san diego we bought a house. Before any furniture, new paint went on the walls, or anything done to the yard we went and bought a 120 gallon fish tank and started keeping saltwater fish. Two upgrades later we are here today !!!!! This date is feb.15,2008
A couple months ago my wife leaves town and I go to the local indian gaming casino. After about 30 minutes this comes up on the slot machine. Dont know how much it is yet, but I know what I am spending it on already !!!! HAHAHA

 

[smoke15]

Turns out it was enough to do another upgrade, and I have the spot to put it in. WE DONT NEED a "formal dinning room", we can just eat on the kitchen table like we always do. So, out goes the dinning room table and chairs. We can access the outside through the garage and back door. I can use this door to do all my water changes outside and not spill water on your nice floors anymore. It wil be perfect you'll see.

 

[smoke15]

In the mean time at our "local website" I run across this thread. 370 gallon leemar built, starfire glass, 8x30x30.
http://www.sdreefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36227

It took this many guys, plus a few more to move it from the driveway into the house! Thank God for other "obsessed" people who show up just to see a glass box move 20 feet ! March 1st 2008 the tank is in the house

 

[Jflip2002]

Thats a pretty nice idea of having it by the door. Im not sure where you are located, but it could pose a potential problem. The temperatures will fluctuate more by the glass, than by an insulated wall. Any way of putting some thicker doors, without glass, there? Or maybe even painting the glass (not sure how that would look) and putting some sort of insulation on the glass. Theres this stuff made by dynamat (autmotive use), but it keeps heat and cold out. Id look into that. Otherwise large heaters and chiller is going to be a necessity.

 

[smoke15]

I live in san diego california. I have never heated any of the tanks I have owned. I do however, have a 1HP chiller that comes on occasionally. I also run fans into the sump, and have fans that come on under the canopy if the temp of water reachs above 80. One cool thing about lager tanks, the water temp is much more stable. I like the insulation idea though.

 

[smoke15]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12985316#post12985316 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jflip2002
Thats a pretty nice idea of having it by the door. Im not sure where you are located, but it could pose a potential problem. The temperatures will fluctuate more by the glass, than by an insulated wall. Any way of putting some thicker doors, without glass, there? Or maybe even painting the glass (not sure how that would look) and putting some sort of insulation on the glass. Theres this stuff made by dynamat (autmotive use), but it keeps heat and cold out. Id look into that. Otherwise large heaters and chiller is going to be a necessity.

Let me give you a hint, those PVC pipes above my wifes washer and dryer, that came through the staircase, through the laundry room, through the coat closet, through the garage wall is not "house related"

 

[mrbncal]

I'm following along.....

 

[smoke15]

Custom built steel frame. Many trips to the scripps pier for salt water. April 12, 2008 water went into the tank

 

[garrettm85]

This is getting more interesting with every post...

 

[dteske]

Keep the updates coming, looks like this is going to be great.

 

[Jflip2002]

Oh, SD should be fine. For heat though, how about one of those shades you put outside in front of the window.So the sun beats down on that, rather than the window itself? That seems like itd work well enough.

Thats a big frickin tank lol.

 

[Jim_S]

Nice

Hey, I have that exact same ladder

 

[Semper Fi 1959]

Tank looks great...

But how much did you win on the slots? lol Im dying to know!

 

[Chihuahua6]

I personally would have moved the china cabinet and put the tank there. It looks awkward in front of the door.

It's a gorgeous tank though.

 

[smoke15]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12986363#post12986363 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Chihuahua6
I personally would have moved the china cabinet and put the tank there. It looks awkward in front of the door.

It's a gorgeous tank though.

Let me see if I can change your mind about that by the time I finish updating this thread. It look odd by what I have shown so far without the stand and canopy on it. Plus no furniture is around it. I will take a pic that shows the whole room.
The jackpot? you mean before or after taxes. I walked out of the door with about 4500 dollars after taxes.

 

[SWINGRRRR]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12986535#post12986535 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smoke15
The jackpot? you mean before or after taxes.

Either!!! Im fixing to head to Biloxi. I needs some luck!!!

 

[DaveMorris]

Looks great Marde. Let's see that stand and canopy. Moving glass boxes is what we do. It was a pleasure.

 

[TandN]

Sweet must be great living out there

 

[smoke15]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12990078#post12990078 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tanya72806
Sweet must be great living out there

Living in san diego is nice, living in hawaii was great ! So much so that I had to build my stand and canopy out of a wood called koa. Koa is ONLY found in hawaii and no where else in the world. Of course it was also 5x more expensive. It was hard to work with, hard to get big pieces of it, hard to ship here to san diego. It was well worth it to me though in the end.

 

[sfsuphysics]

$4500 after taxes? How much was the machine? 25 cents? Those indian casinos really stink to high heaven as far as payouts usually.

But hey I'm sure it's a net profit you made, plus the tank is a bonus

I remember one time I was playing the "nickle" machines (and I put that in paranthesis because if you do "bet max/all lines" you end up throwing down just over $2 a shot), got a big pay out that hit 25,000.... nickles... MEH