new tank!!!

Well she finally said yes!!!!! My wife OKed the new tank. I ordered a brand
new 125g tank, stand, glass top, and 2 twin bulb light strips, will be ready
for pick up on SAT. Anyone want to help my carry it???? So this weekend I
moved my 90g to where I had a 29g and put the 29g in a new spot that I'm not
sure is getting wife approval, time will tell.
I,m planning to use black substrate with rocks and slate for caves, maybe a
few fake plants, and a background that fades from black bottom to a dark
blue top. I have my 20g tank set up like this (minus the plants), and it
looks awesome with the lights on. This is the current home of 2 Frontys, 2
very small Calvus, and a small Highfinned (sold as) plec, imagine there
delight when moved from a 20 to a 125. I plan on adding another Fronty and
another Calvus and (if I can locate) a couple of compessiceps (spelling?)
Set up will be filtered with a currently running sump (no need to cycle ),
and an AquaClear 110 or 500, (what ever they're calling it this month), and
a couple of powerheads with sponges, and heated with 2 300 watt heaters (I
live in southern FL so heating is not a major problem). Thank to advise from
people like NetMax, I run multiple filters on most of my tank, so starting a
new tank is easy.
I will try to get some in progress pics up soon.
Thought, comment and suggestions always welcome, and sometimes needed.

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:58:31 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Well she finally said yes!!!!! My wife OKed the new tank. I ordered a brand
new 125g tank, stand, glass top, and 2 twin bulb light strips, will be ready
for pick up on SAT. Anyone want to help my carry it???? So this weekend I
moved my 90g to where I had a 29g and put the 29g in a new spot that I'm not
sure is getting wife approval, time will tell.
I,m planning to use black substrate with rocks and slate for caves, maybe a
few fake plants, and a background that fades from black bottom to a dark
blue top. I have my 20g tank set up like this (minus the plants), and it
looks awesome with the lights on. This is the current home of 2 Frontys, 2
very small Calvus, and a small Highfinned (sold as) plec, imagine there
delight when moved from a 20 to a 125. I plan on adding another Fronty and
another Calvus and (if I can locate) a couple of compessiceps (spelling?)
Set up will be filtered with a currently running sump (no need to cycle ),
and an AquaClear 110 or 500, (what ever they're calling it this month), and
a couple of powerheads with sponges, and heated with 2 300 watt heaters (I
live in southern FL so heating is not a major problem). Thank to advise from
people like NetMax, I run multiple filters on most of my tank, so starting a
new tank is easy.
I will try to get some in progress pics up soon.
Thought, comment and suggestions always welcome, and sometimes needed.

This is so cool. I can pick up your happy vibes all the way up here at
the top end of the East Coast. The seagulls perched on the roof of my
neighbor's house are chatting about it - word travels fast.

-- Mister Gardener

"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:58:31 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Well she finally said yes!!!!! My wife OKed the new tank. I ordered a
brand
new 125g tank, stand, glass top, and 2 twin bulb light strips, will be
ready
for pick up on SAT. Anyone want to help my carry it???? So this weekend I
moved my 90g to where I had a 29g and put the 29g in a new spot that I'm
not
sure is getting wife approval, time will tell.
I,m planning to use black substrate with rocks and slate for caves, maybe
a
few fake plants, and a background that fades from black bottom to a dark
blue top. I have my 20g tank set up like this (minus the plants), and it
looks awesome with the lights on. This is the current home of 2 Frontys, 2
very small Calvus, and a small Highfinned (sold as) plec, imagine there
delight when moved from a 20 to a 125. I plan on adding another Fronty and
another Calvus and (if I can locate) a couple of compessiceps (spelling?)
Set up will be filtered with a currently running sump (no need to cycle
),
and an AquaClear 110 or 500, (what ever they're calling it this month),
and
a couple of powerheads with sponges, and heated with 2 300 watt heaters (I
live in southern FL so heating is not a major problem). Thank to advise
from
people like NetMax, I run multiple filters on most of my tank, so starting
a
new tank is easy.
I will try to get some in progress pics up soon.
Thought, comment and suggestions always welcome, and sometimes needed.

This is so cool. I can pick up your happy vibes all the way up here at
the top end of the East Coast. The seagulls perched on the roof of my
neighbor's house are chatting about it - word travels fast.

-- Mister Gardener

Hmmm, and here I thought the only thing seagulls could say was "mine, mine,
mine" (Finding Nemo)

"Rick" wrote in message
om...

"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:58:31 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Well she finally said yes!!!!! My wife OKed the new tank. I ordered a
brand
new 125g tank, stand, glass top, and 2 twin bulb light strips, will be
ready
for pick up on SAT. Anyone want to help my carry it???? So this
weekend I
moved my 90g to where I had a 29g and put the 29g in a new spot that
I'm not
sure is getting wife approval, time will tell.
I,m planning to use black substrate with rocks and slate for caves,
maybe a
few fake plants, and a background that fades from black bottom to a
dark
blue top. I have my 20g tank set up like this (minus the plants), and
it
looks awesome with the lights on. This is the current home of 2
Frontys, 2
very small Calvus, and a small Highfinned (sold as) plec, imagine
there
delight when moved from a 20 to a 125. I plan on adding another Fronty
and
another Calvus and (if I can locate) a couple of compessiceps
(spelling?)
Set up will be filtered with a currently running sump (no need to
cycle ),
and an AquaClear 110 or 500, (what ever they're calling it this
month), and
a couple of powerheads with sponges, and heated with 2 300 watt
heaters (I
live in southern FL so heating is not a major problem). Thank to
advise from
people like NetMax, I run multiple filters on most of my tank, so
starting a
new tank is easy.
I will try to get some in progress pics up soon.
Thought, comment and suggestions always welcome, and sometimes needed.

This is so cool. I can pick up your happy vibes all the way up here at
the top end of the East Coast. The seagulls perched on the roof of my
neighbor's house are chatting about it - word travels fast.

-- Mister Gardener

Hmmm, and here I thought the only thing seagulls could say was "mine,
mine, mine" (Finding Nemo)


Our store set up a tank in the lobby of a theatre to promote the opening
of Nemo, and of course, I found time to take a 2 hour break and watch it.
The gulls were very well done.

Congrats on the new tank Rick. I just trimmed my driftwood pieces and
filled my 120g yesterday. The styrofoam didn't float up (or violently
explode through the surface with a 300lb force as it would), and the
driftwood all stayed down (I have them arranged like roots, so where they
come up out of the water, they are all attached to a piece of acrylic,
like driftwood on slate, but upside down). Ironically my 4 sponge
filters didn't stay down and caused me some grief, much to my daughter's
entertainment (the only thing I was sure would stay down, didn't), but
some wringing to get the air bubbles out and some rock weights solved
that problem. My plan is to let it run for 3 days, then 100% water
change, then add the substrate (Profile), settle for 2 days with filters
off (settle the fines in the water), then 100% water change, and fill
with a combination of water from 2 tanks, move fish (musical tanks), move
over aged filters, and let it run for 3 weeks. My glass covers will be
ready next week, and then I have to buy/design a lighting system. No
plants yet, so lights are secondary.

I used to have 5 or 6 Fronts in the 120g, layered with a couple of Pims,
5 or 6 C.mooris, some N.leleupis and 6 large red Platies. The top to
bottom layering was wandering red, fast blue, slow blue/black/white, stop
& go bright yellow, and always moving mottled monochrome (you can guess
which fish were which). It was probably in the top ten best tanks I've
ever arranged (some people arrange flowers, I do aquariums ).
--
www.NetMax.tk

"Rick" wrote in message
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Well she finally said yes!!!!! My wife OKed the new tank. I ordered a
brand new 125g tank, stand, glass top, and 2 twin bulb light strips, will
be ready for pick up on SAT.
================
CONGRATS!!!! I wish it was coming to my house. :-)

Seriously, if my house was on a slab I would definitely buy myself a 125g
tank for my fancy goldfish.
--
Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
Aquariums since 1952
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

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"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:58:31 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Well she finally said yes!!!!! My wife OKed the new tank. I ordered a
brand
new 125g tank, stand, glass top, and 2 twin bulb light strips, will be
ready
for pick up on SAT. Anyone want to help my carry it???? So this weekend
I
moved my 90g to where I had a 29g and put the 29g in a new spot that I'm
not
sure is getting wife approval, time will tell.
I,m planning to use black substrate with rocks and slate for caves,
maybe a
few fake plants, and a background that fades from black bottom to a dark
blue top. I have my 20g tank set up like this (minus the plants), and it
looks awesome with the lights on. This is the current home of 2 Frontys,
2
very small Calvus, and a small Highfinned (sold as) plec, imagine there
delight when moved from a 20 to a 125. I plan on adding another Fronty
and
another Calvus and (if I can locate) a couple of compessiceps
(spelling?)
Set up will be filtered with a currently running sump (no need to cycle
),
and an AquaClear 110 or 500, (what ever they're calling it this month),
and
a couple of powerheads with sponges, and heated with 2 300 watt heaters
(I
live in southern FL so heating is not a major problem). Thank to advise
from
people like NetMax, I run multiple filters on most of my tank, so
starting a
new tank is easy.
I will try to get some in progress pics up soon.
Thought, comment and suggestions always welcome, and sometimes needed.

This is so cool. I can pick up your happy vibes all the way up here at
the top end of the East Coast. The seagulls perched on the roof of my
neighbor's house are chatting about it - word travels fast.

-- Mister Gardener

Hmmm, and here I thought the only thing seagulls could say was "mine,
mine, mine" (Finding Nemo)


Our store set up a tank in the lobby of a theatre to promote the opening
of Nemo, and of course, I found time to take a 2 hour break and watch it.
The gulls were very well done.

Congrats on the new tank Rick. I just trimmed my driftwood pieces and
filled my 120g yesterday. The styrofoam didn't float up (or violently
explode through the surface with a 300lb force as it would), and the
driftwood all stayed down (I have them arranged like roots, so where they
come up out of the water, they are all attached to a piece of acrylic,
like driftwood on slate, but upside down). Ironically my 4 sponge filters
didn't stay down and caused me some grief, much to my daughter's
entertainment (the only thing I was sure would stay down, didn't), but
some wringing to get the air bubbles out and some rock weights solved that
problem. My plan is to let it run for 3 days, then 100% water change,
then add the substrate (Profile), settle for 2 days with filters off
(settle the fines in the water), then 100% water change, and fill with a
combination of water from 2 tanks, move fish (musical tanks), move over
aged filters, and let it run for 3 weeks. My glass covers will be ready
next week, and then I have to buy/design a lighting system. No plants
yet, so lights are secondary.

I used to have 5 or 6 Fronts in the 120g, layered with a couple of Pims, 5
or 6 C.mooris, some N.leleupis and 6 large red Platies. The top to bottom
layering was wandering red, fast blue, slow blue/black/white, stop & go
bright yellow, and always moving mottled monochrome (you can guess which
fish were which). It was probably in the top ten best tanks I've ever
arranged (some people arrange flowers, I do aquariums ).
--
www.NetMax.tk

I was planning on adding substrate and rocks (this part will take weeks till
I get just the look I'm shooting for), then adding water from my 90 and 60,
and installing the sump from another tank and adding the fish before the
bacteria on the bio-balls die. All in one day, the fish are not big (yet).
Should this be a problem?

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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:58:31 GMT, "Rick"
wrote:

Well she finally said yes!!!!! My wife OKed the new tank. I ordered
a brand
new 125g tank, stand, glass top, and 2 twin bulb light strips, will
be ready
for pick up on SAT.
snip
Thought, comment and suggestions always welcome, and sometimes
needed.
snip

I was planning on adding substrate and rocks (this part will take weeks
till I get just the look I'm shooting for), then adding water from my
90 and 60, and installing the sump from another tank and adding the
fish before the bacteria on the bio-balls die. All in one day, the fish
are not big (yet). Should this be a problem?

Sounds great. An amount of bacteria is on the surfaces of the old
aquariums, but the filter's bacteria should equalize all that in a day or
two. You're actually probably going down in bioload, as your new tank is
sterile (nothing decaying in the substrate), so you might not even see
any cycling spikes, just cloudy water from excess bacteria floating in
your water column.
--
www.NetMax.tk

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:35:47 -0600, NetMax wrote
(in article ):

Congrats on the new tank Rick. I just trimmed my driftwood pieces and
filled my 120g yesterday. The styrofoam didn't float up (or violently
explode through the surface with a 300lb force as it would), and the
driftwood all stayed down (I have them arranged like roots, so where they
come up out of the water, they are all attached to a piece of acrylic,
like driftwood on slate, but upside down).

You know what would make really great looking driftwood? Grapevine, like
those grapevine bird perches. Are there any problems using grape other than
having to cure it for a long time?

I don't know why I'm posting about using bird supplies in fish tanks tonight.


-E

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:56:31 GMT, Eric wrote:

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:35:47 -0600, NetMax wrote
(in article ):

Congrats on the new tank Rick. I just trimmed my driftwood pieces and
filled my 120g yesterday. The styrofoam didn't float up (or violently
explode through the surface with a 300lb force as it would), and the
driftwood all stayed down (I have them arranged like roots, so where they
come up out of the water, they are all attached to a piece of acrylic,
like driftwood on slate, but upside down).

You know what would make really great looking driftwood? Grapevine, like
those grapevine bird perches. Are there any problems using grape other than
having to cure it for a long time?

I don't know why I'm posting about using bird supplies in fish tanks tonight.


-E
Grapevine sounds cool. I used to swing on them when I was a little
kid, and smoke them when I was a little bigger kid.

-- Mister Gardener