Alright so for the updates. Ill get the pics up tonight. My work computer doesnt like the .RAW format pics. So for progress to start I had to get a few thinks in order.
1. move my 30g grow out tank full of african fry of various types. on the bottom of my double stand. I cant take the tank down cause I dont have anywhere to put the fish yet, so I had move it to the side.
1.5 Paint the background of one of the new 55s black
2. take down the 55 on top of the stand with my devil, GT, and hornet cichlid, endli, and monster pleco. This was a good time. I didnt get pics of this but I put every fish in its own bucket. the only one that didnt jump out was the devil. This is because he was occupied by beating upthe GT that jumped INTO his bucket. All this happened while I was up stairs and the hornet cichlid flopped a ways away from the bucket. I almost lost him. All is well now though, everyone made it to thier new tank.
3. Move the old stand out and new double 55 stand in. I then brought in one of the 55s I got and filled it and put all of the above fish in it so I could finish tearing the existing one down to paint the background black.
4. Move it back down stairs (by my self this time, thats always fun) and set it back up to move my new Black Rohm who has been in a holding tank for a couple weeks in it. All this time all of the water and gravel from the original 55 was pumped into a barrel to hold it and keep the BB alive in the gravel to jump start the new systems. Each 55 was then filled halfway with old water and half with new to basically do a 50% water change.
Phew, now that the prelim stuff was done I could start on the actual system build.
Almost everything in this system was repurposed equipment I already had except, 2-55s the heaters, and the pump and most of the piping that will be in the filtration system. All of the wood, other tanks, and filtration was junk I had sitting around, so this build will cost a minimal amount when its done (that’s the plan anyway).
I started stripping the seals and trim on the other 55 I got last week, got it sealed up Thursday night and got the new trim on Sunday. I started leak testing it last night and this morning when I left for work I had no leaks!!. Im probably going to wait until everything else is done to drain that one and move it in, just to be sure.
After that I started building the stand, I got all of my sub assemblies ( legs, top and bottom) and got the first coat of spray paint on them last night.
[FONT="]Like I said there will be pics up tonight![/FONT]
