*The Bernese Mountain Dog Build*

[FrankAbagnale]

Been awhile! I ended up with a small leak in my plumbing that wasn't found on the initial test fill. I have know about it and put up with the massive amount of salt creep for a long time. It was making me have salinity issues and I knew I'd have to empty the hole tank to fix the issue. I have finally fixed the issue! Over the last two days I have drained the tank, took everything out of it, moved the tank from the wall, re-plumbed everything, and now I'm in the middle of resetting it up!

 

[FrankAbagnale]

 

[FrankAbagnale]

I set up a 40 breeder to keep my livestock while I did the re-plumbing job.

 

[Bob Escher]

What size tank

 

[FrankAbagnale]

What size tank

It's a 180. Standard size

 

[Bob Escher]

Nice

 

[Zero Nitrates]

That's one heck of a repair job!

 

[FrankAbagnale]

That's one heck of a repair job!

Yeah no kidding! It was not fun! Gave me a chance to reorganize and rescape though.

Tank is filling up right now and should be good to go in a few days.

 

[Oceanwave45]

Hahaha! I love Saint Bernards! We used to have an English Mastiff so we're definitely partial to larger breeds. And since you asked....!

That is such a cute cute dog!! I absolutely love him!!!!!!!

 

[RyanCSGO]

just getting caught up on the whole build.
awesome job!

watched the drilling vid, beautiful property your on too!
makes me want to get out of Cali.

 

[FrankAbagnale]

Back to square 1! All put back together and needs coral and more fish!

 

[FrankAbagnale]

I have a pretty large update to this thread. About a month after my major leak fix on the tank, my wife and I decided to put our house up for sale. We are expecting our first born on March 30th, and we decided we wanted something a little bigger. We were afraid the house would take forever to sell, but we ended up selling it for asking price in December! Fast forward to buying a new house and moving in the middle of January.

I decided I didn't want to try to transfer a living tank so I got rid of all the inhabitants and put my tank and equipment in storage.

So, this past week I have been preparing the new house for the tank! The wife and I are 4 weeks away from our sons due date so I'm trying to get it all finished before then.

I'm putting the new tank in our basement. There is a small space behind the tank, so I'll have a small fish room as well!

Here is what I am working with.

 

[FrankAbagnale]

And here is the room behind the tank.

 

[FrankAbagnale]

I built the stand, framed the wall, moved the water heater to the corner of the room, and have been working on getting all the trim work completed. Right not I just have some finishing details to finish up and build the doors. I'll hopefully get the doors built today, and I'm planning on moving the tank in on Saturday!

 

[FrankAbagnale]

I would love to completely finish off the "fish room" and make it look really nice and pretty, but it's just not in the budget with the baby coming, and I'm concerned I wouldn't finish it before the baby arrives. I will probably slow upgrade the fish room over time by building some walls and doing drywall, as well as adding a sink, but it's going to take some time.

 

[FredsNJReef]

Congrats on the babies and the house! and the new tank project!!
Looking forward to pics!

 

[TheEngineer]

Congrats on all your great news! Good luck with the baby!

 

[najer]

Congrats on the baby, nice build work.

 

[Black Pearl]

Look great, man are you busy! Fish room has great potential

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

That's a huge update!

Congrats on the tank, the house and the baby!