The Dragon spreads its wings and soars again...
Been working my booty off last days to get the tank leveled, and then filters, bio-media and finally Blue Base transferred over to the new tank (LFS guy came over to help with moving the Aro (I don't want her to associate me with that negative process; I stay out of the room lol), and said it was free, no charge but I gave him a tip just as I did when they delivered the new replacement tank & stand.
Before all that though I finally ended up draining the tank and attempting one more re-level just to be on the safe side. And before I got into the comlexity of shimming the tank, I wanted to try one more (simplistic) approach: I was curious to see if by either moving the tank backward or forward, we could luck out and find a set of tiles that worked out nicely. And after about an hour of gentle moving and testing, that's pretty much what happened when we scooted the tank forward about 2 feet. Still not 100% perfect but it's good enough for me without going in with shims and possibly making it worse.
So between the two X's there's 2mm difference -- I'm ok/happy with that but it's in Fate's hands now.
Thunder is clearly happy too -- as mentioned in a previous post she stopped eating pellets when she went back to the 88g. But the day before transferring her over she saw me working on her tank and that night finally ate 3 pellets along with her shrimp. She's had 2 meals since going to the new tank and both times she ate about 12 pellets lol -- it's like she said, "Screw this 'Tiny House' stuff, I'm going on a pellet strike until that skinny mofo gets me a new Purple Palace!" Kids today lol, they're so self-entitled :/
Been working my booty off last days to get the tank leveled, and then filters, bio-media and finally Blue Base transferred over to the new tank (LFS guy came over to help with moving the Aro (I don't want her to associate me with that negative process; I stay out of the room lol), and said it was free, no charge but I gave him a tip just as I did when they delivered the new replacement tank & stand.
Before all that though I finally ended up draining the tank and attempting one more re-level just to be on the safe side. And before I got into the comlexity of shimming the tank, I wanted to try one more (simplistic) approach: I was curious to see if by either moving the tank backward or forward, we could luck out and find a set of tiles that worked out nicely. And after about an hour of gentle moving and testing, that's pretty much what happened when we scooted the tank forward about 2 feet. Still not 100% perfect but it's good enough for me without going in with shims and possibly making it worse.
So between the two X's there's 2mm difference -- I'm ok/happy with that but it's in Fate's hands now.
Thunder is clearly happy too -- as mentioned in a previous post she stopped eating pellets when she went back to the 88g. But the day before transferring her over she saw me working on her tank and that night finally ate 3 pellets along with her shrimp. She's had 2 meals since going to the new tank and both times she ate about 12 pellets lol -- it's like she said, "Screw this 'Tiny House' stuff, I'm going on a pellet strike until that skinny mofo gets me a new Purple Palace!" Kids today lol, they're so self-entitled :/
