My Rio 180 Journal

[Knox213]

Hey Guys! I Told you i'd get it.

And i did.

Aha. Arouund half 1 we left and got the tank here at 3!

Now my mom and dad where argueing where to put it.

and we decided

"Back Room"

Ok. Alot of noise goes on in there i thinks. And i could of had it in my room
But dad said no

Aha dads getting annoyed with the filter ( cant add pictures at the moment! dunno why... )

It looks big enough for an oscar But its not Oh well.

Will post pictures asap.!

 

[Knox213]

For some reason i cant upload pictures.

 

[Truck]

Get an account on photo bucket, upload the pictures, and then go through each picture and copy and past the code which has the [IMG*] [/IMG] tags around it but without the asterix

 

[mattlee]

as truck says use the image code on photobucket.

glad you finally got the tank you wanted

 

[meguro]

what is so annoying about the filter?

 

[shelaghfishface]

oh fab!!
youve been so paitent bless you

really looking forward to the pics

 

[Knox213]

as truck says use the image code on photobucket.

glad you finally got the tank you wanted

Thanks.

what is so annoying about the filter?

Fixed it now

oh fab!!
youve been so paitent bless you

really looking forward to the pics

Aha.

Get Ready ofr the pictures every-one

Im sticking to gravel as i already filled the aquairum with Water... I Dont want a messy tank

 

[mattlee]

come on hurry up were all waiting.......

 

[Knox213]

Ok Some bad things happioned while filling thnig up.

Well Ok just one.

I Ran out of tap safe. there was around 2 bottle caps left..

Would this be safe for now?? And continue to kill off the chorline? Or will i have ato add more tomorrow?

Anyway some pictures for you all now

After 1 hour driving ( or 2 ) We Got to Mister.T's House. (He's a nice guy ) Collected the tank. Got home (mom was'nt pleased) And had to decide "Where to put it"

After that. Urika. I Found an area.
"The Back Room" (Witch i had to clear!

After that I Took a look at the good ol Filter.

ohh. Then we moved it into the back room (you can see my dad in this )

Then started filling it up ( i like this picture)

Then i colud'nt be bothered to upload any moree pictures and the tank looks like a frozen Pond.


Will keep you lot at TFF updated!

 

[Truck]

If you know who your water supplier is you can check online to see if they use chlorine or chloramine, if it is chlorine, it will gas off and won't need dechlorinating.

Before adding fish do you plan to fishless cycle it? or are you going with a fish in cycle?

 

[Knox213]

Dont you all like that water effect at the ending?

Updates later on

Fish-in Cycle.

I need to go to the LFS tomorrow anyway for gravel. and a few other supplys.

 

[indigoj]

How come you are going fish in? You have the perfect opportunity to do a fishless cycle kick started with some mature media from your small tank (or has this been sold already?)

 

[Knox213]

yea i got the old tank still.

But if i take out some of the sponge wqont it effect the curent fish?? If not i will add some of the media later.

(thing is i turned the current filter on. so i dont want to risk messing it all up

 

[minxfishy]

If you use the current filter on your old tank alongside the new filter and add all the fish, voila instant cycle, keep the old filter running for a couple of months, then you can remove it. Or just add all the current media into the new filter, again transfer all the fish over and your done.

 

[Knox213]

If you use the current filter on your old tank alongside the new filter and add all the fish, voila instant cycle, keep the old filter running for a couple of months, then you can remove it. Or just add all the current media into the new filter, again transfer all the fish over and your done.

Im selling the old tank inc media etc this week ( i hope ) so i dont know if i can do that.

tomorrow im doing a water change ( cleaning gravel also ) so i'll transfer that mucky dirty water into the neew tank so no good ammonia / bacteria goes to waste.

got to buy some freakin gravel soon aswel or play sand. Have'nt decided yet. may have to be gravel as i dont like the sound of sand To be honest. When i set pu the tank i realy wanted to put a good ol oscar in there. But the thing is. Its 6 gallons off 55 witch is a let down..
Oh well i can wait till im older enough to buy a bigger tank