New 125 Gallon beginning....

[enchanted]

Just thought I would start this thread now for all the pictures. The tank and 150lbs of Play sand are on their way and will be here in a few hours. Here are some pictures of how things are now.

Temporary 29 Gallon home. No, I didn't clean the outside of the tank.

The 55 Gallon almost drained....

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Ooh.

I trust you'll vamp the tanks up now, after remodeling and adding new tanks.

You make sketches of how the new tanks will be decorated and whatnot?

 

[enchanted]

The 55 is being replaced by a 125. No sketches, I'm not good with them. But I have it all layed out in my mind.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

That's one up on a heck of a lot of us.

 

[shrimpster97]

i hope you unplugged the heater.

just kidding im sure you did.

 

[enchanted]

Well.... At that point I had, but I missed it by enough time that I melted the upper suction cup grip. Other than that the heater still works fine. I plugged it into the 29 Gallon and set the temp and left it for an 2 hours to verify. It kicked on a few times but held the temp perfect.

 

[enchanted]

It is here and in it's new location.

Here are the accessories, excuse the 55 Gallon as I haven't figured out where to put it yet.

 

[MNfishy]

nice lol, your lucky. if you lived in Minnesota i would gladly take that 55 gallon tank off your hands

 

[enchanted]

Both 55 Gallons, stand, and some accessories, including lighting are already sold.

A Portland resident is getting a nice deal and is going to be extremely happy.

 

[enchanted]

Playsand made easy. Enters playsand into tank. Enters python into tank. Now look in the right hand corne and you will notice my syphon is running out the window.

 

[mwm]

Nice tank! what r u putting in it?

 

[enchanted]

It's replacing my 55 Gallon community tank.

 

[enchanted]

Few more pictures.

Here is the first full fill. I did two half fills first to sort out the play sand...

With the flash:

Without the flash:

 

[mwm]

I admire people with big community tanks, they look so nice i could watch them for hours! but i still like big cichlids its a hard choice! You should get a red tail shark mine is really cool! (i have a 20g commy tank)

 

[enchanted]

I will have to consider that after I build the canopy or during. Right now there is no spare money.

Some new pictures. I started aquascaping and moving rocks. I got the Fluval 404 cleaned up and running. I'm going to have to replace the input/output pipes eventually, not the hoses. They just flat wouldn't clean. I could probably let them soak for a few days, but I needed the filter. :icon_roll I aslo hooked up my Penguin 330 (already cycled) to the tank and I put in some of the rocks and driftwood from my 55 Gallon to give the cycle a good kickstart.

I'm doing another 50% + water change right now. All the filter inputs come down low enough so I can do that.

I also reattached the gravel vac to my python to diffuse the water. I'm kicking up enough stuff during aquascaping and I don't need it doubling the problem.

mwm - big isn't always better I have learned. The price was right on this though.