New Project

I got a call from a gentleman in St. Pete last week about his 550 gallon display tank with 120 gallon sump, that in a past life was a FOWLR, in his restaurant. The aquarium maintenance company that setup and maintained the aquarium is out of business. The owner has decided that he is done with the expense of a saltwater setup and wants to convert the tank to freshwater. Someone told him about our goldfish and he has approached me about set-up and maintaining his tank. I told him I wasn't interested in maintaining his tank but would set it up and stock it. This afternoon we stuck a deal on 50 good grade goldfish and I will do the set up. I'll try to get some pictures.


Rick

 

I did OK, I cut a good price because they are buying so many,but I have never sold that many to one buyer at the same time.

Rick

 

I got start on it last weekend just cleaning it out (it was really bad) drain it and took out all the old rock and sand then ran a couple of gallons of PP though it I took a few pictures
The biggest problem is I can only work on this thing before he open for business


Rick

 

I can work on it any they're closed to the pubic. I did do about 5 hours work on it today it's clean finally. I pick up the substance today I'll start filling tomorrow

I kept cichlids up to a 15 years ago. As a matter of fact still have a 15 year old Oscar. He's 3 years older that my oldest son

 

THe finished tank

Rick

 

They're silk and yes they get algae on them and look really bad in a couple of months, but they are temporary the long term plan is to change over to EZ live plants in pots as the tank matures. Because it's a business they wanted to do something to fill out the tank while it was cycling. So silk plant were a "In the mean time" thing while there were no fish in the tank. It took just under a 3 weeks to cycle the tank and about a month to breakdown, clean and repair the old saltwater set-up so we could start the new set-up.

Rick