Big tank/Office build

[Helloitsme]

Looking good!

[LoveTheFishies]

Good progress.  Like the border.

[Steve]

Thanks guys, I can't wait to get it done. Been wanting to add this office onto the shop for 5 years now so glad I'm finally able to get it done this year. Well got some major progress done today now. I'm dead tired from working on it all day long today. Probably won't get much more progress done now for a few days because I have about 4 rods to build this week before I leave Friday morning on a Steelhead fishing trip. But today I got the wall on the right drywall sheeted and filled, the frame and wall built around the tank now, and started on doing the rock wall surface on the tank wall.

[linuxrulesusa]

Looks like good progress. Definitely gives a sense of accomplishment when you can start to see a big project coming together.

[djlamonica]

Your stuff is always above and beyond.  Can't wait to see the finished product I'm sure it will be unreal!

[Helloitsme]

What are you going to put in that big tank?

[Steve]

Some of the larger species of Haps, and some peacocks, probably a few of the fancier type of plecos, and probably my clown loaches once they get too big for the 55 they are currently housed in. Haven't really came up with a solid stock list yet on the Haps and peacocks.  The ones I really like and am leaning towards so far are some blue dolphins, Compressiceps, Anagenys, Livingstonii, Tangerine Tiger and blue Ahli, but nothing is set in stone as of yet.

[Helloitsme]

I thought maybe you'd do a Native American tank with the trout border and such. That way you could catch all of the fish yourself.

[Steve]

I actually did toss that idea somewhat around. I started thinking about keeping some trout in it but after checking into the cost of chillers I quickly dumped that idea Some bluegill/sunfish and bass would be neat (I've had bluegill in tanks before) but decided against that too since they don't have the colorful look I'd like to have.

[Helloitsme]

I actually did toss that idea somewhat around. I started thinking about keeping some trout in it but after checking into the cost of chillers I quickly dumped that idea Some bluegill/sunfish and bass would be neat (I've had bluegill in tanks before) but decided against that too since they don't have the colorful look I'd like to have.

I am going to do it someday myself. I too have kept Sunfish in the past. I had a Bullhead for a while too.

[Steve]

[Nick]

Looking really good. I wish I was confident enough to try making some 3d backgrounds and stuff like this.

[Steve]

Manged to get the 3 rods I needed to get done finished over the weekend so that left me with pretty much the entire day to work on the office. Put another 12 hours straight in to it and got some good progress done today. First two pics are the base coat on the upper portion of the rock wall. Tomorrow I will start some of the detail paint work on it.





Looks like I'm gonna have to redo the stairs as well because now this wall makes the stairs look bad

[Big Dog]

Looking real nice.

[Maize-N-Blue-D]

With skills like these, have you ever thought about creating an indoor waterfall using the same technique over by the stairs?  That would would take your office over the top !