New tank - pic heavy

Tank in the lounge, with the four occupants lining up for a photo...then for individual shots they all shied away! Black/gold oranda is Ory, comet (with a very short tail) Lucy, common Shillib and red-cap Ellie.

Ellie was rescued from a dirty bowl of disgusting water, then kept in the LFS for ages cos nobody wanted a fish with a raggedy tail. Her tail was also really bloodshot, and the membrane had bubbles in it, which I'd never seen before. She is generally looking a lot better than she did when I first got her, and it's been about two weeks - the tail has healed up loads and there are only a few bits out of it, and it's not so bloody shot either. The membrane is now fine, and she is active, eating fine, and got great personality.

It's a 200 litre, I don't know how big that is in 'American' terms...

I bought it off Ebay from a woman whose husband had fish, but recently died. He built it himself, apparently took him six weeks to complete - we had to have three people carry the base into the van when I went to pick it up, and even then we struggled because of the weight!

Haha mainly because I forgot to put it back...you should have seen what it was like before I cleared up, the bucket was the least of the worries! I got a bit enthusiastic with the waterchange today...

I was thinking of it, but don't have the money or the willpower to try get a background on it...I'm planning to eventually have enough plants in there to cover the back anyway, but again it's a funds problem.