EdsonReefer
Community Member
For the previous 2 years my son's school has a 6 Gallon Cubic 20 jellyfish Tank, and all the kids in the school loved it. The jellyfish tank was managed by myself (Parent Volunteer) and paid for out of the schools science budget as they really didn't do any thing fun for the kids with it. After 2 years the school was slated to be torn down and a new school built beside it merging my son's school and another in the town we live in, putting 450+ students under the roof of the new school. While it was being built my oldest son (9years at the time) had his birthday party. All the kids that were over kept asking me questions about what was in my tank (corals and fish), such as what kind of plants (ie corals) I had growing in the tanks and the normal questions kids ask about fish (what kind of nemo's are those). Later that night I thought why not put together a mixed reef tank for the new school, and the kids could learn about how reefs protect shorelines from erosion and are a place for young fish to growup. The Principal of the new school loved the idea and wrote up a donation letter for me to take around to local businesses in town to ask for donations for our new (Life Sciences Program). After 3 months of gathering donations some local and some from compays that make some of the dry goods we would need. I ordered the tank (125 Gallon) from a LFS 2hrs away in the nearest city that carried supplies. I was told 6-8 weeks before the tank would be done being built. After the 8 week point I phoned the shop up and asked about the tank, they told me that it still wasent done and they didn't know when. I told them that they assured me that if it was going to go over the time frame they should let me know as the school year is only so long and I needed time to plumb it and anything else that might comeup. To make a long story short they managed to get it built after 11 weeks with some proding from me. I borrowed and enclosed cargo trailer from a local business and drove the 2hrs, two days later and picked up the tank and with help from various people moved it into the school.
