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Hey everyone,
My name is Jorge and I'm new around here. I've always been enamored with fish tanks, as I'm assuming most of you guys and girls have been, for pretty much my entire life. In my old house I had a 55g setup and then we decided to sell that house and move to a bigger house; and you know what that means....new house...new tank! I decided to go with a 180g tank build as I loved the 6x2x2 area.
The new house had a perfect area for the tank. The space was supposed to be used as a wet bar, but the developer that was building the house wanted way too much money for the upgrade. This is when we decided to use the space for a big tank, and thus began the planning of the tank. We needed to tear a wall down so I can make it look like I wanted.
I was looking for a tank everywhere; Craigslist, OfferUp, etc. I finally found a 180g that I liked. It was priced well and I decided to take the 1.5 hour drive to pick it up.
Nice and secure in the truck!
IMG_0585 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
Final resting place of 180
IMG_0800 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
All was going well in the planning stages until we went to the final walkthrough of the house before closing.
The developers decided to throw in the wet bar instead of making it an upgrade!
2016-12-16_09-31-44_410 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
We had already bought the tank and some parts so we decided to just continue on with the build as planned.
This is the plan for the area that we have
2017-01-06_10-44-40_410 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
About 2 days after closing on the house, the destruction began...
2017-01-06_20-38-08_191 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
2017-01-06_20-49-07_336 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
2017-01-06_20-57-57_309 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
2017-01-06_21-48-42_000 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
My name is Jorge and I'm new around here. I've always been enamored with fish tanks, as I'm assuming most of you guys and girls have been, for pretty much my entire life. In my old house I had a 55g setup and then we decided to sell that house and move to a bigger house; and you know what that means....new house...new tank! I decided to go with a 180g tank build as I loved the 6x2x2 area.
The new house had a perfect area for the tank. The space was supposed to be used as a wet bar, but the developer that was building the house wanted way too much money for the upgrade. This is when we decided to use the space for a big tank, and thus began the planning of the tank. We needed to tear a wall down so I can make it look like I wanted.
I was looking for a tank everywhere; Craigslist, OfferUp, etc. I finally found a 180g that I liked. It was priced well and I decided to take the 1.5 hour drive to pick it up.
Nice and secure in the truck!
IMG_0585 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
Final resting place of 180
IMG_0800 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
All was going well in the planning stages until we went to the final walkthrough of the house before closing.
The developers decided to throw in the wet bar instead of making it an upgrade!
2016-12-16_09-31-44_410 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
We had already bought the tank and some parts so we decided to just continue on with the build as planned.
This is the plan for the area that we have
2017-01-06_10-44-40_410 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
About 2 days after closing on the house, the destruction began...
2017-01-06_20-38-08_191 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
2017-01-06_20-49-07_336 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
2017-01-06_20-57-57_309 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr
2017-01-06_21-48-42_000 by Jorge Tijerino, on Flickr