Cream Crackered

[SarahBravo]

Urgh, someone just out an icecube down my neck as I was asleep at my desk!!

Asleep because up till 3am last night moving some tanks around - never knew fish keeping was such physical labour. Bit of a pain that I don't finish work till 7pm too. Had to empty a 4 footer and a 3 footer, scoop all the gravel out (3 - 4 inches in each as had been planted ), slide each tank off the stand, drag it into the next room (tip: don't leave 50' of python tubing on the floor - makes things interesting!) prop each tank up hardback book by hardback book and slide onto stand.....drag bucket of gravel across, scoop in gravel... etc etc. Poor fishies were pretty freaked out too. Don't think the neightbours appreciated all the running water sounds either but there was no way I wasn't gonna use the python.

You're probably all calling me a weak good for nothing - but I'm not used to hard labour!

Anyhow, the good news is that I've now got a space for my new tank, the bad news is I will of course inflict all the setting up pics on you!

It's a juwel 180, gonna have lots of slate and a colony of firemouths. Watch this space!!

 

[rosietoo]

Wow, that sounds like hard work!

I read one of your previous posts, you have A LOT of tanks!

Where are you purtting the new one, and what are you planning to keep in it?

 

[Bloo]

How exciting !

Look forward to those piccies !

 

[SarahBravo]

It's going in the lounge in an alcove under some shelves. That makes a Juwel Rio 125, a Rio 180 and the Vision 180 in the lounge, so hopefully will look fairly respectable and tidy. In the dining room (aka fishroom) there are now 2 x 4 footers on a double stand and 4 x 3footers on 2 double stands. Then in the kitchen there's a mess of little tanks. (The bettas hate me chopping onions on a board on top of their tanks but there isn't anywhere else!!)

There's 5 firemouths definitely going in it, they're only babies at the moment, about 1". I've also got some juvie curviceps, about 1.5", but I'm not sure if they'll get beaten up. Also have a Texas cichlid baby - about 2" - but he is turning into a pain in the behind, so he's probably going back to the lfs for a refund. Shame, he's sooo purty. Maybe I should put him in with my juvie midas?!?! Dunno, don't want either one of them to get hurt.

It's going to be very fine natural gravel, heavily planted in the corners, and lots of slate caves and hiding spaces to keep cichlid agression to a minimum (hopefully!!).

Have got my electric screwdriver charging as we speak, really looking forward to getting it set up!

 

[Angel Lady]

I look forward to seeing your pictures. And I am not use to hard labor either. LOL I hate moving tanks around you should have seen me when I got my 180 gallon. Which reminds me I am getting a new 120 gallon soon which will be my new home for my oscars. They are so lucky.