concepts store front will be closed until further notice
 

Hey all

Sorry to announce this on so short notices but we will be closing our store front for about a month or so for some reno's and staffing changes.

some of you may know that we have been doing some major reno's and the store is just a mess right now:redface: but our tank manufacturing will not be affected


So now on to the good news:mrgreen:

phase one is now all most compete:wink:
our old marine fish system was taken down and revamped for specialty fresh water fish.
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psm9hej9ag.jpg
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psewshz28k.jpg

still a little more work left but we are getting there on this system


phase two

i hope this will be something special lol our 16 foot display tank is now gone and will be replace with two new 16 foot coral beds
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps2dfzhrlf.jpg


this is what i am hoping for but we will see how it comes out :redface:
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psn4kyuek9.jpg

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psem44yso7.jpg

some major work still left on this system to do


phase three

make a new marine fish room that is hopefully better for viewing

more to come on this project


phase four

seating and planing room with some cool toys and automation from my other business

more info to come lol

phase five

major clean up and redoing the floors and than finally we can have our grand opening with maybe a frag fest thrown in :mrgreen:

I hope once we are done you guys/girls can all come by to check out our new look concepts and have some fun


Thanks Dave


ps if any one is looking for a job we have three part time openings i am looking to fill.:wink:

What's up with the TVs?

just display screens that we can show info on, ie incoming shipments, stuff we will have specials on, tanks we have build or setup in the past maybe even a hockey game or two i hope lol

Interesting although they look a bit big for the space. Hopefully they are saltwater resistant :lol:

i dont think the tvs are to scale lol

i ordered 8 50 inch tvs but will have to see how it fits together

ya i don't think they are saltwater resistant but knowing two owns of lager electrics store is going to help:redface:

Good luck Dave...that looks like one massive project! Don't know where you find the energy.

Ray

Thanks Ray

I have been letting things slide for too long now, so i will be a lot more active on this put of my business.

every one thinks i have to much time on my hands lol will been sitting back dreaming off more off the wall ideas, so it might get even worse now going forward lol

Very nice Dave. Looking forward to see end pictures..

Looks like it is going to be very nice. Cant wait to see pictures of the finished project.

With the store being closed now will the website be back to full function sometime soon? or is that still a while away?

I look forward to finally making it there. Maybe this time nobody is going to beat the crap outta me on the way there......LOL

the web site might be some time away, i have to revamp what we will be carrying as will as getting new stock in

thanks dave

I'm hear to help if you need to store some coral in my tank your more than welcome.

Round 2 for renos?? Didn't you guys just do a whack of renos when you moved in? I hope you get something you're happy with on this go 'round. I gotta say it though, FRESHWATER? :eek:

lol i think this is round 4 to be honest :redface:

it is so bad having a manufacturing plant in the same building :mrgreen:, things can happen so fast.

ya fresh water, asian arowana's just happen to be my favor of the month, so i am starting to import them in now.

How about some high-end japanese Koi ? It's pond season. Just sayin' boss :wink:

koi era was after turtles and before kittens. you must have missed them it pays to visit often!

kittens ?! WTF? I missed the kittens?? Were they before or after the Discus ? Pretty sure they must have been before the helicopters. Possibly after the RC cars ?

And according to this hummingbirds are in the queue ? Nice !

Ha - renos are costly! Well of all the freshwater fish, Arowana's are one of the few I do like. :)

shrimp
 

There was a brief period of time he was doing little tanks of freshwater shrimp and would answer the phone "amano enterprises" too. It was just before kittens, and after the little known african cichlid breeding operation that pushed into mobiltec ...

Need a set of horse blinders for the guy! (jk dave!)

Didn't you know freshwater is "in" right now :wink:

Not to mention since Dave builds tanks for both fresh and salt not carrying freshwater stock and supplies in the store front is throwing away over 90% of the market.

yap hate to say it but fresh water is such a large part of the market it just made sense too also service that part of the industry. It going to have a big learning curve for us but my hope with the way we set up the system with a drip system it won't be too bad

Seems like freshwater is so much more cost effective.
from import, to distribution to retail.

I wish I had the conviction to learn a whole new husbandry because planted freshwater tanks look amazing these days.

That's why I run both! If you can't decide or choose, but I started in planted freshwater and then put in a saltwater when we developed our basement.

Staffing changes??? So are you guys hiring?

we finally had a chance to mount the six tv's we picked up today
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psr97oa1vt.jpg

and the last one should be going up friday and then the fun starts lol

Looking good Dave, I hope the salt doesn't kill the electronics!


KS

yes we are, you are welcome to come in and talk to me

thanks dave

Any word on an opening date?

sorry we have been in grand prairie for an on site build this week so have not got much done at the store


shoting for july 1 to reopen fully but we have received two sps orders and a lot lps in the last two weeks

i will post up some new pic's tomorrow when i get back in to the office


Thanks Dave

Tv's in coral shop gotta ask what for?

Fish Porn!!!! and lots of it:mrgreen:



no, one of the most complains we hear about is that there is no pricing on corals, but we also don't want writing or stickers covering the tanks. So the plan is to take pic's of all our coral stock and display them on the screen with pricing implanted in the pic's. that way customer can see the the corals and know exact pricing on them with out knowing the names of the corals

hope that makes sense lol i did just drive 8 hours so i might not have explained that right

Thanks Dave

That's a great idea

here an update
 

Here is some new pictures that was taken just a while ago

this is the sps tank
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psot5mann8.jpg

mix tank
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psefv4jyvt.jpg

lps tank
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...pscq1gvrlz.jpg


the fish systems
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psljyul7fi.jpg
http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/a...psmv2i0fsg.jpg

most of the fish systems will be ran off of canister filters with UV built in them, this will be our third try at setting up fish system:redface:


the floors was just finished and we are hoping to get started on trimming out the fish systems this week

Thanks Dave

Things are looking great dave!

Are those mirrored panels on the coral system cabinets? I like how the floor reflects off them.

Wow things have really progressed since I was there a few weeks ago. I like the mirror doors too. The orange line on the floor looks cool. Don't know why I focused on that and not the crazy huge look down tanks lol!

Dave it looks like you are in desperate need of your tvs, someone has been writing prices all over your new tanks.

LOL yes Matt may have to do some work :lol:

Went by the shop today and I must say WoW looks really nice,clean systems, clean flooring different front desk design even a room for customs builds,...will leave the rest for everyone to find out when visiting :biggrin:
Oh and the TVs EVERYWHERE you look there is tvs and mirrors :lol:
I didn't know Dave could tile especially using silicone :biggrin:
Bottom line congratulations on job well done, don't stop yet but a little more work and you could win store of the year,...