So here's the background, at our old office I had a fish tank on my desk that I had custom made so it was long (24") but only 9" wide x 10" high.
When we moved into a fancy new building (with bigger desks/cubicles) I had glass cut to make a new tank. However, with is being a new building (and us not having our own office) they were much more finicky about what you could and couldn't have on/at the desks and as it turns out the tank got ixnayed. The main stumbling block was the woman that was in charge of "building maintenance/building manager" and although I've known her for ages and we got along great she was dead set against a tank ("if I say yes to you I have to say yes to everyone and what if someone wants a bird?" was her reasoning) so I pretty much dropped the idea.
Anyways, she was let go last week and it occurred to me that maybe I had another shot at putting a tank on my desk now that she is gone and the whole "newness" of the office has worn off a bit. Now, there's no guarantees since it still depends on who decides what, but in the mean time since I don't have the tank yet, I figured I would do the next best thing (and sometimes half the fun) and start planning it and deciding what could go in it but, as mentioned earlier, it's not one of your standard off the shelf tanks.
The tank is 10" wide x 10" high x 40" long.(~17 gallon)
Will be very low maintenance tank with low light plants and probably some rocks and driftwood. Nothing it set in stone yet and sky's the limit for possibilities as at the momment it is still nothing more than a a stack of panes of glass in my basement.
So what are your thoughts?
When we moved into a fancy new building (with bigger desks/cubicles) I had glass cut to make a new tank. However, with is being a new building (and us not having our own office) they were much more finicky about what you could and couldn't have on/at the desks and as it turns out the tank got ixnayed. The main stumbling block was the woman that was in charge of "building maintenance/building manager" and although I've known her for ages and we got along great she was dead set against a tank ("if I say yes to you I have to say yes to everyone and what if someone wants a bird?" was her reasoning) so I pretty much dropped the idea.
Anyways, she was let go last week and it occurred to me that maybe I had another shot at putting a tank on my desk now that she is gone and the whole "newness" of the office has worn off a bit. Now, there's no guarantees since it still depends on who decides what, but in the mean time since I don't have the tank yet, I figured I would do the next best thing (and sometimes half the fun) and start planning it and deciding what could go in it but, as mentioned earlier, it's not one of your standard off the shelf tanks.
The tank is 10" wide x 10" high x 40" long.(~17 gallon)
Will be very low maintenance tank with low light plants and probably some rocks and driftwood. Nothing it set in stone yet and sky's the limit for possibilities as at the momment it is still nothing more than a a stack of panes of glass in my basement.
So what are your thoughts?
