I know where my skills lie and its not in wood working. I opted to trade some car detailing with my contractor for him to help me with the build and it turned out great!
I opted for the larger 48" length tank since I'm 6'4". Gives me plenty of room over the 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank I was using before. One heads up I would give anyone looking to order the rectangle tanks of either size is that the shipping of the tank will be a couple hundred bucks depending on where in the U.S. you live so keep that in mind while.pricing your build out.
Also, one initial mistake I made thinking I was going to filter more stuff was buy a non-pleated 5 micron filter. This was essentially choking the flow of my system down making my pump pulse instead of flowing freely. Joe made me aware of this so once I changed the filter to a pleated 30 micron one, everything flowed smoothly.
I'd also like to thank Jow for being so responsive throughout my build. Not sure how many emails he gets on a regular basis but of the 3 or so emails I sent, I dont think a response took longer than a day, so thanks Joe!