OK all, here's the deal. I am new back into the hobby (25 years prior experience). I myself am getting ready to build a new home and have a thread started to build my 300 DD into the wall. I just received my RE sump last week. Ground breaking for the house is March. So, that is my status... now here is what happened this past Wednesday and could be fun...
My GF and I went to a Christmas party at the house of her employer, yea, I know it's after Christmas, long story and not important. Anyway, he is extremely wealthy... More money than probably any of us will ever see wealthy. In this house is a 500 gallon marine tank. I call it that because it has saltwater in it and about 3 marine fish, and that's still stretching it. plastic rocks and plants and 4 fluorescent tubes. Absolutely awful. It is acrylic, very deep and long pentagon and scratched to hell. For the past two years I have been on him to let me redo this tank and he agrees but as soon as I am out the door, it is out of mind and forgotten. BUT this year, I told him as we were leaving, I am just going to show up one day and tear it down and start over. he said I wish you would... so this time, he brought his girlfriend and his house manager into the conversation. The house manager is obviously in charge and was very excited about doing this. They had gotten an estimate to have this redone. The estimate was 100,000.00 which got me laughing so hard I thought I was going to choke. OK, there will need to be some woodwork done but they have the original carpenter to do that for me. I wanted to just remove the old tank, have it buffed out and reinstalled but the house manager wants to go back with glass. I agreed because I want to change the depth of the tank (someone would have to hold you by your ankles and lower you in to touch the bottom) and I want to do low iron glass on the front and back. It is a room divider tank between his office and man cave. Let's try this and see how this works as long as it doesn't get out of control, I thought this would be great for everyone to participate in. First things first. We need an estimate for a new tank. All glass, frameless. Who is the best? I want to say cost is no object and it isn't and it is. He is my friend and 100,000.00 is stupid, but he will want the best. I am just sure we can do this for a third of that cost. So, who do I request estimates from? I have include a pic of the existing tank. Sorry for the quality, light was low and it was my phone.
My GF and I went to a Christmas party at the house of her employer, yea, I know it's after Christmas, long story and not important. Anyway, he is extremely wealthy... More money than probably any of us will ever see wealthy. In this house is a 500 gallon marine tank. I call it that because it has saltwater in it and about 3 marine fish, and that's still stretching it. plastic rocks and plants and 4 fluorescent tubes. Absolutely awful. It is acrylic, very deep and long pentagon and scratched to hell. For the past two years I have been on him to let me redo this tank and he agrees but as soon as I am out the door, it is out of mind and forgotten. BUT this year, I told him as we were leaving, I am just going to show up one day and tear it down and start over. he said I wish you would... so this time, he brought his girlfriend and his house manager into the conversation. The house manager is obviously in charge and was very excited about doing this. They had gotten an estimate to have this redone. The estimate was 100,000.00 which got me laughing so hard I thought I was going to choke. OK, there will need to be some woodwork done but they have the original carpenter to do that for me. I wanted to just remove the old tank, have it buffed out and reinstalled but the house manager wants to go back with glass. I agreed because I want to change the depth of the tank (someone would have to hold you by your ankles and lower you in to touch the bottom) and I want to do low iron glass on the front and back. It is a room divider tank between his office and man cave. Let's try this and see how this works as long as it doesn't get out of control, I thought this would be great for everyone to participate in. First things first. We need an estimate for a new tank. All glass, frameless. Who is the best? I want to say cost is no object and it isn't and it is. He is my friend and 100,000.00 is stupid, but he will want the best. I am just sure we can do this for a third of that cost. So, who do I request estimates from? I have include a pic of the existing tank. Sorry for the quality, light was low and it was my phone.
