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The Living Color team is challenged with transforming a vintage Volkswagen Minibus into a fish tank for local car dealer Mike Wetzel. The years have not been kind to this iconic hippie van, strapped with a questionable structural integrity. Engineering a tank that will weigh 4000 pounds when installed, filled with saltwater and stocked with fish, is the most complicated job theyve ever faced.
Ben has gotten a bit too comfortable behind his desk at Living Color headquarters and Mat has taken notice. To shake things up, he assigns Ben the job of installing a pair of outsized fish tanks around a fireplace at the Reuss residence in Orlando. What seems like an ordinary job to the rest of the Living Color team proves to be quite the challenge for Ben, as he has to hone both his client relation and physical skills on the fly.
The Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is an educational facility that also nurses injured sea turtles back to health. But after years of wear, the showcase aquarium has fallen into disrepair and is now a mere shadow of the aquatic oasis it once was. Enter Caitlin Roy, daughter of Living Color president Mat Roy and former intern at Gumbo Limbo.
Trish and Claude Yonnet have commissioned Living Color to create the perfect centerpiece for their soon-to-be completed beach home on Grand Cayman Island. They envision a giant aquarium featuring marine life of the surrounding waters. The only catch? Removing ornamental fish from Cayman waters is illegal.
Living Colors most demanding client is Jim Prappas, the head biologist at Rainforest Café. This time, the project at hand is for the Rainforest Cafés location at Disney World and the tanks that decorate this highly trafficked space are in desperate need of a reef makeover. As if a two-week turnaround isnt difficult enough, Jim wants the restored reef to feature molds of the highly prized coral known as the Stylophora pistillata.
Dr. Larry Kawas office doubles as an orthodontics practice and a multi-aquarium showcase featuring all kinds of rare marine life. Disaster recently struck in the form of a cracked tank and he reached out to Living Color, not only to replace the physical tank but also provide a unique underwater specimen to display. Stumped, Mat and Francis have to dig deep and come up with what is known as a mermaids purse.
Allpets is opening a brand new location and has asked Living Color to create a centerpiece for their store. They want something completely unique; an African lake recreated in a tank, swarming with freshwater cichlids and topped off with an African Sausage tree.
Fourteen Tanks. Twenty-seven reefs. One project. Living Colors next project is by far the most extensive yet. The South Florida Science Museum draws hundreds of thousands of visitors and theyre building a new aquarium wing, displaying an extensive look at the different marine habitats in south Florida.
TPFabio Lisboa is a lifelong fish enthusiast and hes looking to make his tank dream come true as the centerpiece of his new office space. His vision is a 5,000-gallon tank full of the oceans perfect predators: sharks. An aquarium that size will not only take up over half of his offices square footage but if successfully completed, it will be the largest private tank in South Florida.
TPThe Living Color team finds Paradise Island in the Bahamas where theyve been commissioned to build an ornate, highly specialized aquarium for the Atlantis Casino. This is an extreme job for a resort that already boasts over 11 million gallons of water in its diverse collection of aquariums.
Upon arrival at Craig and Nancy Schupkes Key West home for what he assumes is a run-of-the-mill tank renovation, Mat is stunned to find himself standing on top of one of the most unique aquariums hes ever encountered. Below him is a 25,000-gallon saltwater lagoon.
Living Color president Mat Roy and his chief creative force Jose Blanco head across the country where a special celebrity client has a California fish tank dream that he wants to make a California fish tank reality. Upon arrival, renowned dog trainer Cesar Milan, better known as the Dog Whisperer, greets them on his expansive new property.
Living Color is taking on a special project that has the potential to change the lives of hundreds of young students. By donating an educational exhibit to Galaxy Elementary, Living Color hopes to generate an interest in biology in the wide-eyed youngsters who attend the school.
South Floridas PB Catch restaurant was built on the cutting edge of contemporary design but its still missing one element to tie the décor to the cuisinea fish tank. With a reputation for pushing the envelope of aquarium design, Living Color is tasked with building a tank that is unlike any of their previous projects. Owner Thierry Beaud doesnt want coral, he wants crystals; doesnt want intricacy; he wants simplicity.
One of New Yorks hotels is looking build on its reputation of luxury and theres nowhere to turn other than Living Color, with their impressive track record of one-of-a-kind aquariums. The hotels architect, Frank Denner, cant have just any old tanknot only does it need to be unique but it also has to serve a practical purpose. Franks vision requires a cylindrical aquarium that completely and seamlessly conceals a structural column. The idea is simple but the size and shape is a recipe for a technical disaster.
Theres only one client that can get away with asking for an aquarium that is both interactive and looks delicious, and thats Hersheys! Living Color has never been tasked with such a high profile project but this tank has the potential to gain incredible amounts of exposure.
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