Good Morning everyone. I have been waiting to post my thread until I was closer tot he finish mark. I changed my mind after reading the thread "Are we just selling stuff" After reading figure why wait until I finish and just drag you guys along with me for this long journey. Let me give you a little back story on the 210. I decided to upgrade from my 150-gallon xhigh simply because the tank had more height as opposed to length. The dimensions were 48x24x30. When I first got the tank, I was honestly very excited because I was upgrading from a 65-gallon acrylic tank, so I had more room. The 150 looked huge at my LFS. As time went on basically two years later, I wanted a tank that was long so my tangs could swim the length of the tank. This is when I purchased the 180 gallon in March from a fellow CR member. I planned my gear. I pretty much knew all the gear I would purchase except for a skimmer because I plan on using my current one. I began to save for gear since I am an average joe who works for a living. In May of this year my basement decided to flood after 6 years without a drop of water ever seeing inside my basement. I was sick. I call it the great flood of 2019. I ended up having to rip out all my carpets, rip out my drywall from the floor up to 4ft upwards. skipping forward to July, I was able to see my way. I came up with a plan to refinish my basement. before I could think about the basement refinish, I had to resolve some plumbing issues that caused the basement to flood, which was not cheap. Now that the plumbing was done, I could resume my basement refinish and my 180 build. The first thing I did was have a metal stand fabricated. I think I might be done with stands made from wood. Later in July, my family and I decided to take a vacation before school started for my boys. So, get this. I asked my wife did she mind if we killed a couple of hours as we were on our way out of the city and she said why not. So, I opted for lunch and then Aquarium Adventure. lo and behold when we get there, they had a massive sale. One item that caught both of our eyes were the tanks. They had a 210-gallon tank reduced from 999.00 to 769.00 The wife looked at me and says, "this looks bigger than your tank", like a child, I gasped and said it is, it is. She must have forgotten about the 180 in the basement, but hey I kept my mouth closed as she said what seemed like slow motion, “would you like this tank”? I said yes please yes, please. There you have it. My 210 was delivered on after our vacation and my stand was delivered a day later. So now I just have to replace the drywall that was ripped out. I won’t be putting carpet back in the basement again. I will post pics as I progress so you guys can journey along.
Here is a pic of my stand that was delivered as I am smart enough to put up moist resistant drywall green board is what I think its called. it's in my entire basement now.
Here is a pic of my stand that was delivered as I am smart enough to put up moist resistant drywall green board is what I think its called. it's in my entire basement now.
