This season I am thankful that I didn't lose any of my wild caught fish during my tank conversion last weekend. I've heard some horror stories how stingrays and discus can react sometimes to tank moves so I was very worried. I bought a 180 gallon tank to give my little guys some more room and, to raise up the tank higher over my bar, I had a new custom cabinet built to fit the tank on it.
I started moving my four stingrays, 3 discus and arowana at 7am into buckets with airstones to keep oxygen going. The cabinet builder didn't get to my house until 10am (2 hours after he was supposed to). He hadn't built holes in the back of the cabinet for me to fit the filter hoses, air hoses or cords through so he had to make adjustments in my living room. When he was done it was 11am and I was pissed. Fortunately my guys were fine. I quickly filled up the tank with the 75 gallons from the old tank plus 105 new fresh water, put all the heaters, filters and airstones back in and was fully back up and running at 3:30 that afternoon.
What my old setup looked like
Tank fully drained, fish in buckets and waiting on cabinet delivery
New stand in place, putting equipment in new tank
All finished!
I started moving my four stingrays, 3 discus and arowana at 7am into buckets with airstones to keep oxygen going. The cabinet builder didn't get to my house until 10am (2 hours after he was supposed to). He hadn't built holes in the back of the cabinet for me to fit the filter hoses, air hoses or cords through so he had to make adjustments in my living room. When he was done it was 11am and I was pissed. Fortunately my guys were fine. I quickly filled up the tank with the 75 gallons from the old tank plus 105 new fresh water, put all the heaters, filters and airstones back in and was fully back up and running at 3:30 that afternoon.
What my old setup looked like
Tank fully drained, fish in buckets and waiting on cabinet delivery
New stand in place, putting equipment in new tank
All finished!
