Its All Setup Now Thank God

[ryanred5]

I thought I posted this the other day but obviously not, this is what happened on Wednesday when we set our new corner tank up.

Phew what a day, so much for only taking a hour. We started at 12pm and finally sat down knackered at 4.45pm.

It took ages to catch all the fish, those Cardinals are sods to catch. Here's a pic of the fish in the poly box.

Once we did that we emptied the water from the tank and moved everything out of the way for the new tank.

God the tank and unit are heavy my hubby moaned, he did all the lugging about as you can see. We did get it in place though eventually, and even though I say it myself I think it looks great.

We emptied the water we kept back into the tank, it didn't even do quarter of a tank so we set the HMA unit going to fill the rest of the tank up.

We did have to add a few buckets of hot water to get the water warm enough to put the fish back in. We put the external filter and thought we were struggling priming it but when my hubbie turned it on it started working straight away, very impressed. It didn't take long to clear either.

Eventually the tank was filled up, it was up to temp and the external was running okay, its so quiet. So here is the final picture we took without fish, the lights are on here too (we haven't taken any with the fish in yet).

We lost a couple of Cardinals, one was floating in the tank and another was squashed on the floor, I'm not sure what happened with that one.

Hope you like the pics and the commentary of our day.

**Minxfishy what do you think? Thanks for showing me your pics with the background in, I'm really pleased I chose it too**

 

[shelaghfishface]

whoever told you it was going to take an hour?? they need a good slap! im so glad im not the only one who goes in with eyes wide shut, makes a complete mess and *loses* the odd fish ( one was found in a trainer )

but you got here in the end, it it looks like it was well worth it
well done
shelagh xxx

 

[markandhisfish]

will be doing the same myself soon . as soon as the tank i just ordered arrives i use an undergravel filter at the moment . and will be changing to cannister filter. new tank sits where old one is at the moment. most of my fish are going to lfs tho as im changing the type of fish i keep. gonna speak to them about taking the unwanted fish tomorrow when i go to get them there daphnia. ( even my fish get a "sunday dinner" lol) tank will take 1 to 3 weeks to arrive am looking to get rid of unwanted fish next week. had a right result on the filter tho. the fishhouse manager at my new lfs i go to is selling me an eheim pro2 which is currently running on 1 of his tanks and is fully matured will be coming straight off his tank onto mine so yay no cycling..... BONUS! so its just a case of doing something with the 6 or so fish im gonna keep put new tank in place hook up the filter heaters and lights fill it get the temp right and put the fish in their new tank. hmmm sonds easy dont it. bet it wont be tho!

 

[SharonCC]

Nothing ever goes as planned! It'll be fun, though...

 

[markandhisfish]

lol you just know its gonna cause me a headache will be worth it tho as im going up from a 26g to a 95g