Tore down and moved my 55g..

I have to hand it to those who do this with any monotonous regularity. Wow what a lot of work!! I haven't done a break-down and re-do in a good 25+ yrs! It took me a good 4-5hrs total.

I used my canister filter lines to fill a storage tote. Transferred the filters, heater, plants, fish, etc to the tote. Scooped out all the gravel, shop-vac'd all the remnants, scrubbed with a plastic scrubby and pitchers of water to rinse... shop vac'd again. Storage tote started to bellow out pretty good, but she held!

It took me some time to level the stand in it's new spot. All new gravel and added a new background.

The white blobs in the background are panty loads (lol) of used gravel from the existing setup. I was surprised at the root system the wisteria had developed. My anubias nana had attached itself to the resin stone/cave and my java fern have attached nicely to shells. I hope it all takes! Here's the before and after:

Thanks Z.

I'm hoping using the existing canister, HOB, small internal filter, hardscape and plants will keep my water parameters OK. Tank was scrubbed clean w/ nothing but chlorinated tap water and all the gravel was changed out.

ZorroNet said:

Was there a problem before, or did it just need to be moved?

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Had a momentary lack of good judgement and ordered a 75g tank that will go where the 55 used to be. :screwy:

I plan to get a single oscar for the 75.