Over the past couple of days I have had more help. A buddy who is also into fish came over after work yesterday and helped me frame in the bulkheads around my HVAC. He is not responsible for them looking so crappy! It was my idea to have the lower 2x4 below the runners, but it worked out because I was able to use them to level everything out. On the longer HVAC run, I was way off on measuring, so the bottom 2x4s are only part way screwed in, to level it all out! Hopefully the drywall hides it all! If I need a little more surface to anchor drywall to, I may have to double up the long 2x4s... As you can tell, I do not do this for a living!
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Tonight, I started putting drywall up on the top half of the room. I didn't get very far, but I am sure I can plug away at this next week.
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I checked on the Starfire glass for the front of my tank, and it is ordered and on its way! I am pumped. I need to get this drywall up, have someone mud and tape, and I need to clean the silicone off the current pieces that I have. The glass should be in and ready in a couple of weeks, so the timing should be just about perfect!
I mentioned earlier that I am using the 8'x27" 3/4" front piece of glass from this tank as the base for a frag/quarantine tank. Does anyone have any suggestions on how deep the quarantine tank/frag tank should be? I was thinking 14". If I do that, I can nearly make the whole thing from the sheet of Starfire that I am bringing in. If I lowered it to 11", I could do the whole thing! I would like it a bit deeper, as I want to get some fish that like to burrow in the sand. It would likely be traumatic for a fish like that to quarantine in a shallow, glass bottomed tank.
Let me know your thoughts! Also, if anyone knows a mud/taping person that wants to get this done, let me know!