New filter on the 55g

Periodically, my boyfriend gets frustrated on the amount of money and time I spend on my tanks. Well, the other day I found a good deal on Amazon for an Aqueon 55/75 hob filter, so I snagged it up. I got my package the other day and got the usual "Ugh! Really?..." so I put everything together but was having a hard time getting it on the tank and gave up for the time being. So this morning I was looking at it sitting all pretty and shiny and new on the table and thought "I need to get that in the tank so he won't have to keep looking at it". I was having issues again due to the placement of my tank (up against the wall, under the bar) and ended up having to take out my big cave-thingy, disassemble parts of the filter, and remove the darn lights. I didn't expect to have to do all that when I started, but of course, he had to walk out in the living room right as I was knee deep in this with parts surrounding me, at 5AM!! LOL!!! What a way to start the day!!

Lol!!

He was like ”what the *#$* are you doing?! It's 5 o'clock in the morning!”. My reply? ”putting my new filter on ” as I was holding up the 48” light fixture! Acting as innocent as possible of course!

A thorough cleaning, yes, but routine media rinse and change, no.
I kinda did some of that process this morning backwards and without thinking it through since it was too early. I had already taken half of it apart by the time I thought about removing parts from the filter that were keeping it.from going into place. Had I done that first, I would not have had to remove the lights. I had to remove the rock cave to move the old filter to the other side.
Needless to say, I won't be trying to do anything like that again at 5am.