this is going to be our personal show tank to make peoples jaws drop and let them see what we can do, they just have to cut the cheques...the mould for the fiberglass tank was started about 6 months ago, now it has been cut in half and sections are going to be added to lengthen it from 14' to 18' mabey 20' havent decided yet. As you can imagine, the equipment required to run this beast is a little on the pricey side, I have been building, and purchasing equipment for it for the past 6 months, also I have been fine tuning the design of the filtration and lighting and plumbing nightmare, and am working on finalizing the asthetics of the tank such as the rear rock wall with shelfs built in, I want the back wall to look like a reef shelf on the edge of a coralreef, Im drafting support grids to hold up the liverock shelfs, Im also trying to finalize viewing windows so the mould can be finished, do I go with 1 huge window, or 2 smaller ones on the front... Im leaning more towards a single 14'x5' viewing window
The tank is going in a garage/showroom that we are building for the sole purpose of holding our display tank and other livestock holding tanks and a few tank raised rearing tanks. we have all the permit crap figured out, now its time to build when the weather gets better, I have to put cement columns into the ground under the very thick reinforced foundation that the tank will sit on, Im really not sure when it will be finished, basically as more money rolls in I get a little closer to the finish date. It might be done sometime in the summer, hopefully. Thank god some people feel compeled to owe me favors, and thank them so much for being in the position they are in, there are a few big dollar items involved in this project that I dont have to pay a cent for except shipping... the tank alone with the rock work is silly expensive, the 14th century pirate ship replica anchor isnt cheap, the same one in the smithsonian was huge dollars, then we are getting a bunch of replica dive helmets that the smithsonian had copies made of, all silly expensive, and fiberglass display fish... I have helped someone out, and he is returning the favor... Ill gladly accept! The tank will be nothing short of jaw dropping impressive, I have no doubts about that, my fiberglass buddy is an artist with some serious talent!!!