WOW!!!

[Origami]

None of the tanks in the gallery have live corals in them. Make the cabinet to match the home and slap the rest together with some fake corals for color and hardy live fish. Sweet gig for acrylic tank makers. Tap into the $$ quick and sign them up for maint. What would one dispaly cost $5,000.00 and up? Folks in my neighborhood would buy just for the aestheics....HEY ADAM!!!!

So, if it's all fake, do you really even need water? Well, you probably do for the light rays and such. But, perhaps you could make the water uninhabitable or at least, unfriendly to most life, so that maintenance was easier (no scraping algae off the panels or cleaning fake corals)!

[ArtFully Acrylic (Adam B)]

None of the tanks in the gallery have live corals in them. Make the cabinet to match the home and slap the rest together with some fake corals for color and hardy live fish. Sweet gig for acrylic tank makers. Tap into the $$ quick and sign them up for maint. What would one dispaly cost $5,000.00 and up? Folks in my neighborhood would buy just for the aestheics....HEY ADAM!!!!

 

Yes Jan? LOL

 

Big Money tanks like this are quite commonly equipped with fake resin coral. It makes maintenance and parameters easier to keep in check. Most of the people that can afford custom jobbies like this also NEVER do their own maintenance anyway so of course the builder/maintenance company (many times one in the same lol) will intentionally recommend this. It also "saves" the tank owner money. Can you imagine how much money you would have to spend to get coral colonies sufficiently sized to inhabit a tank of that size?!?!?! As for cost, yeah um, I can tell you that a tank like that would cost WAY more than $5K. The acrylic alone is likely 2"-2 1/2" thick and with the size of the seamless molded panel would have required a VERY large mold and oven to bend appropriately. Just that main piece of acrylic likely cost around $10k to have done and that doesn't even count labor for the rest of the build and install LOL.

[Jan]

That's how some folks want it and they gladly pay for it, whatever the cost. Would be great to tap into those resources. Just sayin.

Yes Jan? LOL

 

Big Money tanks like this are quite commonly equipped with fake resin coral. It makes maintenance and parameters easier to keep in check. Most of the people that can afford custom jobbies like this also NEVER do their own maintenance anyway so of course the builder/maintenance company (many times one in the same lol) will intentionally recommend this. It also "saves" the tank owner money. Can you imagine how much money you would have to spend to get coral colonies sufficiently sized to inhabit a tank of that size?!?!?! As for cost, yeah um, I can tell you that a tank like that would cost WAY more than $5K. The acrylic alone is likely 2"-2 1/2" thick and with the size of the seamless molded panel would have required a VERY large mold and oven to bend appropriately. Just that main piece of acrylic likely cost around $10k to have done and that doesn't even count labor for the rest of the build and install LOL.

[Jason Rhoads]

Yeah, they can keep this. To me the building, learning, and maintenance are most of the fun in having a tank.

[ArtFully Acrylic (Adam B)]

That's how some folks want it and they gladly pay for it, whatever the cost. Would be great to tap into those resources. Just sayin.

 

Oh goodness don't I know it!! If I was able to tap into those resources around here I would be SET, have a shop 3-4 times the size and a staff of builders

[Der ABT]

and your own TV show....Tomatoe Clown Catcher Diaries.....permiers tonight.

[ArtFully Acrylic (Adam B)]

and your own TV show....Tomatoe Clown Catcher Diaries.....permiers tonight.

 

ROFLMAO!

 

HEY! HEY! HEY! I will have you know that the show would be called EXPERT Clown Catcher Diaries!! Since we got the batch of Picasso's in (they are in a holding tub in the frag tank till our fish rack gets built out) I have become QUITE good at catching Clowns. Of the 5 Picasso's we have left I have had to make 6 catches already so I am well seasoned. Why you ask? Because before we put eggcrate over the holding tub they liked to jump out into the frag tank to stretch their fins . Silly part though is they never wandered more than a foot away from the tub lol.

[Jan]

Do it! Set up a showroom or a demo. Approach some of the magazines and have them interview you. There's no other place in this area that does anything like what is in the pic I posted. the right people will seek you out especially if they see it in a magazine.

 

My dad this this in his industry in the late 70's. He created window treatments. He made a showroom with displays at his shop. then he was interviewed by Decorators Magazine. His phone was ringing off the hook. Decorators wanted to contract him for their clients window treatments. All upscale upper East Side and West as well a Midtown and the Hamptons. It got his name around.

 

Oh goodness don't I know it!! If I was able to tap into those resources around here I would be SET, have a shop 3-4 times the size and a staff of builders

[ArtFully Acrylic (Adam B)]

Do it! Set up a showroom or a demo. Approach some of the magazines and have them interview you. There's no other place in this area that does anything like what is in the pic I posted. the right people will seek you out especially if they see it in a magazine.

 

My dad this this in his industry in the late 70's. He created window treatments. He made a showroom with displays at his shop. then he was interviewed by Decorators Magazine. His phone was ringing off the hook. Decorators wanted to contract him for their clients window treatments. All upscale upper East Side and West as well a Midtown and the Hamptons. It got his name around.

 

Awesome your dad was able to do that! Course....upper east side...hamptons...bit of a different area .

 

That being said, my exposure has certainly expanded...as far as Fairbanks Alaska with an order I am working on for a customer there. Also as far as a recent request I actually had to turn down cause it was just WAY bigger than I could handle...165x36x48...YIKES!!!...awesome awesome tank size, but not quite yet equipped mechanically/tool wise to handle a build that size lol. 600 gal is about my limit right now.

[zygote2k]

The majority of our customers who have saltwatwer fish, have tanks like this one with lots of fake corals. Many of the fish are large and very forgiving of water conditions. What no one tells you is that all of the decorations tend to have algae accumulate on their surfaces and the only way to clean it is to use a product called AquaMaid. You use an algae magnet (carefully) on the acrylic.

Many of these tanks are built with 1" acrylic. I work on one that is 8' tall (on the stand) and 10' long that used to be maintained in the way that I just described but is now a full blown reef but still has some of the plastic structure.