125 gallon journal...planted
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My fingers hurt
I am sure there are people out there like me who save ever dollar possible. Cleaning 10 year old gravel that is like mud is a hassle and quite frankly, I do not know if I would do it again. It was about 150 pounds of it so I wanted to save $80. That's 2 weeks of gas money. My fingers hurt but the gravel is finally done. My next step is to clean these nasty glass tops. Once the glass tops are finished, I can start assembling my tank and add water. My Marineland C-360 and flourite should be here tomorrow. Sigh, more gravel...thankfully I am only adding 1 bag of it. Just going to mix it in with regular gravel.
I am sure there are people out there like me who save ever dollar possible. Cleaning 10 year old gravel that is like mud is a hassle and quite frankly, I do not know if I would do it again. It was about 150 pounds of it so I wanted to save $80. That's 2 weeks of gas money. My fingers hurt but the gravel is finally done. My next step is to clean these nasty glass tops. Once the glass tops are finished, I can start assembling my tank and add water. My Marineland C-360 and flourite should be here tomorrow. Sigh, more gravel...thankfully I am only adding 1 bag of it. Just going to mix it in with regular gravel.
Looks great, and I think it was def worth it now that it is over. Make sure to post pics with it mixed, I may need to do this for next tank.
Filtration on, background on
Okay it is 8pm here tonight and i got a lot accomplished. I got my C-360 put together and running, and also got my background on. I have a black background on, but the tank is cloudy because of the flourite and me just stirring up everything. The tank is super noisy because the draining is splashing on the surface because I am missing about 25 gallons of water. I am going to use about 25-30 gallons of the old tank water tomorrow and try to acclimate the fish into their new home. I need to make sure the water temp is over 82 because I am adding the discus. I will put new pictures up tomorrow when the tank is clear. Besides the tank being cloudy, you really can't tell I mixed in flourite. Still looks natural as if I didn't add a man made clay.
Okay it is 8pm here tonight and i got a lot accomplished. I got my C-360 put together and running, and also got my background on. I have a black background on, but the tank is cloudy because of the flourite and me just stirring up everything. The tank is super noisy because the draining is splashing on the surface because I am missing about 25 gallons of water. I am going to use about 25-30 gallons of the old tank water tomorrow and try to acclimate the fish into their new home. I need to make sure the water temp is over 82 because I am adding the discus. I will put new pictures up tomorrow when the tank is clear. Besides the tank being cloudy, you really can't tell I mixed in flourite. Still looks natural as if I didn't add a man made clay.
Wow, man, what a score! You've done an awesome job cleaning that up and it looks real nice in your room. Nice chicky too...gotta be happy with that!! 
Plants
I had to take the heater out of the 10 gallon that was housing the plants and put it in the 125. So the 10 gallon was under 70 degrees so I decided to just throw the plants into the 125 to keep them warm. Once my driftwood piece comes in I can rearrange everything and buy bigger, taller plants. Remember, these are just the plants I rescued out of the 125 that was neglected along with the fish. I kept most of them. There is like 20 anubias plants and ferns in there. Also, about 6 swords plants, 1 of which is huge. I have a good eye for aquascaping and right now everything is thrown in there to keep them alive. I need some tall plants for the back and more swords. The plants are kinda laying over because they have been through a brutal weekend and week. They will come back.
I had to take the heater out of the 10 gallon that was housing the plants and put it in the 125. So the 10 gallon was under 70 degrees so I decided to just throw the plants into the 125 to keep them warm. Once my driftwood piece comes in I can rearrange everything and buy bigger, taller plants. Remember, these are just the plants I rescued out of the 125 that was neglected along with the fish. I kept most of them. There is like 20 anubias plants and ferns in there. Also, about 6 swords plants, 1 of which is huge. I have a good eye for aquascaping and right now everything is thrown in there to keep them alive. I need some tall plants for the back and more swords. The plants are kinda laying over because they have been through a brutal weekend and week. They will come back.
