Yeah nuff said. Forgot for a moment exactly where you are but I've walked down there. Concrete and glass...SEXY. Must be nice not having to worry about your floor's structural integrity when planning a tank.

I actually had an engineer come (paranoid) to check out the place before I set up the 200G...he laughed when he got here and said I had wasted my money :lol: He had the building plans as well.

He told us, on the record, he can't give us a number (tank size), but off the record, he wouldn't worry about anything under 5000-6000 lbs. So up to about 500G.

Our strata doesn't have a bylaw for aquariums, just how many fish you have :crazy: but I wasn't going to push it. They recently changed it to one aquarium only but still left out size. Apparently now you can have as many fish as you like but in any sized tank.

I would hate to have water leaking down into the Falafel house downstairs at lunch time! I think I would pack up and just leave. Although I had about 50G of RO water on my floor the other night/morning and I have to say, it pools up very nicely and only took about 20 minutes to clean up and maybe an hour to dry with no fans. Polished concrete floors are nice!

EDIT: Oh have you been by the building before?

It's this one:

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...12exterior.jpg

Aren't they all the new ones recently built along the water near Stanley Park I think?

No actually but I know which ones your talking about. Those are even nicer! And probably more expensive.

I am at Broadway and Cambie, so just across the bridge from BC Place and false creek. It used to be just a pretty quiet area but they have really developed it the past few years. Added Home Depot, Best Buy, Winners, Canadian Tire, Save On foods, 2 different starbucks a block apart of course and a bunch of small shops, so its really busy now. It's nice to have all these places across the street sometimes but other times I hate it. When your plumbing a tank, HD across the street comes in handy--but most of the employees also know me by name now...kinda weird.

Oh and the new Skytrain/subway to downtown is just on the corner too...so even busier now. I suppose it's upped the value of our place though. Hope so cause the building is leaking and we owe a bunch of money for our share...even though we don't technically have a "roof", just a neighbors floor :wink:

I don't see any pheasant balls...

Justin's a REAL designer. Those types laugh at the fake kind (us web/graphic guys). Rather than toss balls everywhere these guys paint MURALS and stuff in their homes (which I'm a fan of)

is that type of blenny hard to keep i seem to have bad luck with blennys for some reson i just got my 2nd bicolor and again 3 days later hes no where to be found he just vanished 3 days ago and no sign since

LOL...Fake kind? I know your joking....design is design. It's all real.

My tailspot has been easy. He doesn't eat anything but algae off the rocks but so far that has kept him really fat. Actually he is the fattest fish in the tank. He is getting quite active and is not shy anymore. Took a good week until he would come out when I was around and then another week or so before he would go near the front of the tank. Now he is all over.

Maybe I am just lucky though.

Oh yeah totally joking =) I have a buddy who went to the University of Lethbridge and I always bug him about being a REAL designer.

You know whats funny, I never went to school for any kind of design. I went for fine arts and then classical animation. I guess both obviously have design in them but in a totally different way than design programs. I have learned by begging for jobs over the years. Started as a graphic designer actually. What I have found is that you just have to start somewhere in the art world and then you can really move around and expand a lot without schooling. No one cares where you went to school or for what if you can do the job...in my experience anyways.

My goal in life is to try as many different design jobs as possible. Just got through with interior design...not sure I will ever go back to that one :neutral:

The one thing I always go back to when I need a steady job is animation. Plus its nice to work from home :D