Well I'm at it again, summer is gone so time for another tank project in the office/shop. Everyone knows the view of my office facing this direction...
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But standing in the same spot and looking 180 degrees the other way is this view....A nice view but something is missing, a tank!
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Originally I was going to move one of my 29g tanks over and build it into the wall with maybe a pair of rams or something. But I have decided to go with something that will complete my "wants" in fish keeping. When I got back into the hobby 4 yrs ago with a mixed African tank I had a few things I really wanted to keep, one was Frontosa which I now have a front tank, another was some sort of large "wet pet" which I now have with my Jaguar, and the last thing was I wanted to keep a tank of Tropheus.
So I've decided to build a Tropheus tank into the wall between my office and shop area. It will be a 4ft 55g for the time being but I will be upgrading it probably in the spring to a 75-90g once the trophs get a bit larger. Going to be rasing the stand to a height of 42" so that the tank will sit right above the back of the chair in the picture and tank will have a 3D background in it for a nice finished in wall look.
This is the backside of the wall, well WAS the backside of the wall at 1pm today lol...
And this is the backside as of now. Already got both sheets of drywall down and most of the studs removed (this is a non load bearing, I actually put it up myself just 5 years ago as a divider for the rooms).
Have to stop work for the day now as I have a fly fishing show to attend with a buddy tonight but will be back to work on it come morning. Hopefully will have it all done and trophs swimming in the wall inside of a week to 10 days max
