Our new store is 90% done. Still some small things to set up. Thought we would share photos of what we think is Toronto’s coolest new saltwater coral store and what went into building it. Took about 2 solid months of working at it everyday. At some points it was daunting and depressing. Wasn’t easy and some parts not fun but the end product was well worth the late night, early morning and sweat. Hope to see in our store soon. We are at 588 marlee ave in Toronto.
Day 1: Demo, existing washroom was too big and conflicted with the layout we wanted so it had to go
washroom done and pocket door installed
stand frame built out of LVL and 2×6
Glass arrived !!
Painted bottoms black and began to put them together
Now time for the sump, we have a basement and main floor which is nice because it allows us to hide the messy part of the hobby/business downstairs
half way there
sump stand done ! a little bit of green just for fun basement was very boring
tanks almost done and skinned the stands they are 8 feet long, 3 feet wide and 12” tall
here I started working on the checkout counter, took quite some time but wanted something you didn’t see in most reef stores
check out done and shelves went up for hardware
shelving stocked with lots of reef aquarium goodies and hardware 😀
tanks have water finally , took about 5 weeks and ati sunpower are up
doser and apex neptune installed
ati rack up
tanks stocked and radion g4 are up
starting to feel like home
we add aquaforest to our line up and love it
acro come in and system is nice and stable after about 4.5 months, coraline algae is really starting to come in
All we are missing now is the display tank! feel free to shoot us an email with any questions