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| Two different kinds of scrubbers, I'd have to say I'm impressed because I'd give up after the long hours it took him to get the years of coralline off of this tank! |
Once he's done with that he calls me down from my blogging and we take a trip down to the local paint store to find some paint for the back and side of 'The Monster'.
Chris had already called and spoke to a woman and explained what he was looking for. Being a painter by trade, he basically knew what kind of chemicals he needed in the paint, he just didn't know which kind of paint he needed. Of course, anyone in the hobby knows that usually when it comes to our requests, no ones really knows anything when it comes to our requests anyway. We have a long conversation with the guy at the shop who began by saying he thought we needed to use spray paint but, Chris insisted that our 90 looked rolled so he wanted something to roll. We go on to finally find a gallon of some paint only to find out it can only be tinted to a pastel blue. We end up leaving with two cans of spray paint. It did have all the proper chemicals we needed and stated it would hold to glass. All of these a plus. We're thinking that it's possible the people who painted the 90 possibly sprayed it on too thick and had to roll it to fix the mistake but, we'll never know. The color does look the same however...
To get back to the point at hand...we get back home, Chris masks off the tank and then proceeds to spray the back and one of the sides. We decided on the side as well because we are never going to see anything but the wall otherwise and we happen to be quite fond of the blue.
Then he sands the stand. The toughest part about the stand is that it's pine (we love pine...we keep re-doing everything in our house in pine) and we had our hood made out of oak because of the heat from the lights so it's going to be hard to match the two when it comes time to stain and poly them. We thought about maybe in the future just covering the stand to match the hood but, we will see...
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| You ever try to get a photo of someone and every time you go to shoot they stop doing what they were doing? That was Chris every time I went to take a picture of him sanding this damned stand! So, this is it!! :)
When the kids get home they are immediately put to work sifting through the buckets of sand...not little buckets, these buckets...
When I come back from my doctors appointment, Chris and Emily are warming their hands up in the house and Brian and Amy are taking their turn in the bin. There is a total of about 30 gallons of sand that they sift through to wash out the ditris and pull out things like snail shells, old plugs and the sort. In the meantime, the patio looks like a bomb has gone off on it. We already had a bunch of shit on it from when we recently re-did our kitchen (anyone need a stove?) and now we have all this stuff for a larger tank to go into the house...Geesh! The neighbors must think we are hoarders, I swear!
  
Chris and the kids also managed to empty out my living room of the television and end table while I was gone. Chris and Emily bring in the tank stand and put it into position and Chris finishes off the area of the living room by taking down my shelves. Of course they leave marks on the wall so, I have to at some point go find the paint in the basement and touch up the wall now. Gotta mark that one on the growing list of things to do...
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After freezing her hands a bit more while Amy relaxed on the tire swing and Chris re-braced the center again we waited for our friends to arrive to help bring the tank in. We didn't wait long...it was already late in the day. We ordered take-out (again) and had dinner with Eric while we waited for Kyle and his son.
Once again, a huge thank you goes out to Eric, Kyle and Kyle for taking time out of your schedules to stop by to just pick up a heavy ass fishtank to put it on a stand for us!! You guys are the best!
That's it for this blog...stay posted though, it's going to get interesting :)
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