Big Day!

[Miss Wiggle]

yes that's right, we're actually shutting down two of our tanks tonight

but don't you worry we're getting more to replace them

shutting down the agressive community and the tanaganayikan tanks, then upgrading the livebearer tank to a bigger one......... then setting up a marine tank where the other two were.

very much mixed emotions for me today, I'm really excited about the new tank but I'll be very sad to see my fishies going. really bad timing too as we'd been trying to get the tangs to breed and we seem to have just got the water conditions right last week as the big daddy of the tank has started displaying to the femals, sad to see them go when we've just got it right

 

[Bex]

What are doing with all the fish? Back to the LFS?

At least you have something to look forward to in setting up the marine. That will be exciting! What fish are you getting for it?

Hope it all goes ok! Good Luck!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

What are doing with all the fish? Back to the LFS?

At least you have something to look forward to in setting up the marine. That will be exciting! What fish are you getting for it?

Hope it all goes ok! Good Luck!

yeah our mate at the lfs has said we can take them in and he'll give us money off everythng we need for the marine tank.

we've not 100% decided hat we're stocking, it'a a mature set up, been running for years so we're keeping the 2 clowns that are in there, returning the other fish as they're too big for the tank and then we'll stock gradually in a bit when the tank calms down.

thanks

 

[Bex]

Sounds like you got a great deal there. I love setting up new tanks it's always very exciting. Would love to try a marine set up but the expense puts me off. Perhaps in the future!

Post some piccies when it's ready

 

[Miss Wiggle]

well we'd priced it up and ti was gonna be 8/900 so we thought nah we'll leave it...... but then we got offered a full mature set up, tank, stand, equipment, live rock, fish... even an RO unit for..........
















wait for it




















£150


couldn't say no really!!

will definately get some pics of it up in a few weeks.

 

[demonmagus]

wow that's good, how big is the marine tank gonna be?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

wow that's good, how big is the marine tank gonna be?

it's 3 foot long, about 30g. Really nice size I reckon. It's replacing 2 30g 4 foot long tanks that we have stacked so should free up a bit of room in the living room too

 

[rfisher]

Hi,

That sounds like a really nice project to get stuck into. Good Luck and can't wait to see any pics.

Rich

 

[SamUK]

i want it all setup and stocked and the fish to be on top form by the time i get there!





sorry i keep missing you guys. i PMed Ian back now tho.


tank plans sounds awesome.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

i want it all setup and stocked and the fish to be on top form by the time i get there!





sorry i keep missing you guys. i PMed Ian back now tho.


tank plans sounds awesome.

ha ha, i wish!! were not getting it until next weekend so you'll miss it. you can come round after though and see it

you can however see the empty space where it's going to go and the rest of the tanks. Getting my pretty betta delivereed today so you can be one of the first to meet him too

no worries love. Ian's at work but i'll get him to pm you this aft/tonight. He'll probably be home around 3

should also probably tell you guys how the moving went. well it was joyous!! starte off so well, take the lids and equipment off both tanks, catch the fish, bag them up take them to the lfs. fine

come home to put the fish we're re-homing amongst our other tanks into a bucket, move a bit of wood........ oooh yeah, we were meant to take the talking catfish to the lfs too .... never bloody see him so we forgot!! have a right flap and panic over what tank he's going to go into as there's endlers in the one we're moving the rest of the fish too.... and he'd eat them. Toy with the idea of him going into Ian's big tank but we'd never find him again. Then remember we haven't actually stripped down the 3 footer upstairs... phew he can sit in there overnight and we'll take him to the lfs in the morning......

so we then drain and strip the two tanks down, start to scoop out the substrate.... i the (accidentaly) almost gouge Ian's eye out with a fishy jug (sorry again hun!!) lots of shouting and swearing for a few mins. Then we moved the 4 foot tank upstairs.... I love having a big strong fella, I didn't even have to help! so we then set the tank back up, put the fish from the 3 footer into theyr'e new 4 footer, put the talking catfish into the 3 footer, then the rest of the fish into the 4 footer. yay all sorted......... or so we thought. I was just tinkering with arranging plants and decor when Ian spots that the filter is leaking all over the floor. bugger. Took us forever to figure out why, must have got knocked somehow and the seal's buggered. So eventually we manage to get it set up, sat in a bucket which we're keping a v close eye on so it doesn't overflow. Then the bloody thing won't start again, and we bought it 2nd hand and don't have the primer for it so each time we try and start it we have to suck on the end and get a gob full of fishy water. mmmmm nice anyway we eventually got it working about 8.30 (we started all this about 4pm).

Then it's the turn of the betta tanks, I get my new one today so we had to move yet morefish around. Molly's... bugger they were meant to go to the lfs too bung em in with the catfish and they'll go tomorrow as well. Moved Ian's betta no problems, fingers crossed the move doesn't stress him and I'm just waiting for my betta Binky to arrive today.

so we've now got 4 tanks in the bedroom instead of 3 (and what's even worse is we both admitted we thought it was OK where it was, we could probably just about keep it going.... no bad mts bad mts stop it!! ). But we ARE going to re-home the fish tonight and strip down that tank. It's going to live in the basement with the 4 footer as hospital/quarantine/grow out tanks.

phew bit of a big night, ended up getting a mountain of takeaway pizza having a glass of wine and just chilling out for a few hrs.

then we've got to do it all again tonight with the fish to the lfs.... then next week we have to move a marine tank which it's going to be sooo much fun