I really need help!

by **schigara** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:38 pm

Yeah Boss, looks like you're right.

I checked with some acrylic suppliers today and was quoted as low as $540 for one sheet of 3/4in. !!! I was thinking it was gonna be about $150-200 for a sheet. I was wayyyy off.

I went to my LFS and they gave me a price of $940 for a glass 84x30x24 with a glass external overflow.

by **a1k8t31524** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:18 am

you know i get a real check........but it is gone two days later......

by **Snowboss4492** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:13 am

well blue in 2007 i made 135,000.00 in my company and i spent 120,000.00 on equipment, matierials, wages, repairs, electric, heat, rent - - -so you do the math and tell me what a real check looks like ...............lol

i love what i do but it doesn't make any money...............but it continues to grow and someday it will support me and my family .............until then ......momma has a decent job that takes care of most of the household for us

and dont forget we have a 16 yr old daughter which takes about 3 million a year to keep happy .....lol

Boss

by **saltwaterpimp** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:19 am

shigara, call a company in your area that uses cast for building things, i found a local company that builds storage tanks and airplane instruments, half inch 300 and 3/8 340(give or take) and 3/4 420, i made 50+ phone calls before i found these prices, good luck

by **blueshoes2208** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:21 am

dang... guess we are in the same boat..... i

by **nicholas542** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:21 am

Yeah Boss when me and my dad farmed apples and pear here in Washington State we made about the same kind of income, and eventually push came to shove. We sold off all the land, and equipment. Looked like big money untill you had to pay for maintenance fees, chemical bills, diesle fuel, laborer payroll, etc. etc.....

by **Deltasigpony3648** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:35 am

what about a shallow in wall tank i saw a really cool build where it was 8 x 2 x like 12in

by **Snowboss4492** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:07 pm

i hear ya Nicholas..............i grew up on a dairy farm and its was the same thing there and we are surounded by 3 of the largest orchards in the north east ......so this way of life is just normal for me .................don't get me wrong, it's good life .......i had a lot of money out in kansas with my ex wife and lost it all in a divorce and you couldn't pay me to go back to that level of stress and lifestyle.......i love comin home with cut up knuckles and dirty boots feeling like i accomplished something

Boss

by **schigara** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:12 am

Hey guys, I have another dilemma. I went to my other LFS today and spoke to the owner about the tank I want. He informed me he is going to sell one of his displays to make room for more sale tanks.

The display he is going to sell, which I have first chance, is an L shaped 500g acrylic. He'll take $600 for the tank and stand. The long leg is 10 feet long x 30in wide and 25in tall. The short leg is about 5feet long. I can have the long side cut down to the 7 feet and put in and end pane of acrylic which would be the 300g tank I want.

I could also replace the rear panel of the short leg of the L which would result in about a 120g tank.

I kinda hate to turn that bigass L tank into 2 smaller rectangle tanks but it could be a fairly cheap way to go. I would just have to find a company that could cut it.

by **saltwaterpimp** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:00 am

dang, how you getting that in the house? LOL I would get that, I just got a quote for a frag tank,365.00...50x20x12, no starfire, 3/4 glass with beveled edges, shigara, as long as the tank is ok go for it, the things I could do with that tank!!

I really need help!

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I really need help!

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