New Fishtank
Last weekend I went out and *finally* bought myself a 4foot fishtank. I ended up getting the 4 foot tank, a cabinet, hood, light fittings, biolight, cannister filter (1200L/h), air pump, air stone and some more water ager and amrite down.
I spent the good part of Saturday and Sunday staining the cabinet and hood a chololate brown colour. I tell ya what, I was SO bloody sore afterwards it wasn’t funny! Its times like these I realise how unfit I really am 
Filled the tank up late on Sunday and realised I hadn’t cleaned the subtrate (gravel) and therefore the water went a muddy colour. Considering this is pretty bad for the water and the filter I drained the tank, painstakingly cleaned the substrate and filled it back up again on Monday after work. Its about here that I let you know that its about 220Litres that fit into this tank, and with only a 10Litre bucket, this took a fair amount of time. And also pretty much destroyed my arm muscles hehe
Tis now been 3 days, the water is still cloudy but this should soon be rectified as teh filter does its thing, I also bought some activated carbon to help fix the water clarity. I also bought 2 more catfish and a flameback cichlid which are happily roaming around the new tank along with the 2 old bristlenose catfish from the old tank. I think I will move the 8 remaining cichlids to the new tank tomorrow afternoon. The tank is looking pretty good at the moment. I might even make its creation and development into a site project.
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