For your enjoyment and entertainment, photos of the new walk-in tanks in progress. Hover over individual pictures for captions.
Moving tank pieces into Float
Moving more pieces
Maneuvering through tight spaces
Pieces and parts
A bottom section in our hallway. It’s covering Room 4 and our tea station
A bottom section in its own room
We customized our fiberglass tank shells from Ace Composites with a fiber optic star ceiling, modeled on a real-life star map. (Northern Hemisphere, of course.)
A starfield laid out on a tank ceiling.
Laying out the Big Dipper
Orion, from the wrong side of the ceiling
Colin handling the fiber optics for the ceiling starfield
Managing fiber optics #girltech
A new sharp toenail clipper to trim the fiber optics #girltech
Glue. Lots of glue.
Once we finished the ceilings, it was time to put together the tanks. We don’t have pictures of that process, because it required absolutely all hands on deck. Below are assembled tanks…
A new walk-in tank before applying siding
New tank with siding applied
A peek at the starry ceiling
I hope you’re as excited about the new tanks as we are! They’re going to be fun.