new tank coming today!

just got a call from LFS....my tank is ready for install and they wanted to know if I was ready for it today! Said, of course come on over! ;D
Very excited and very nervous right now.

I need to remind myself to make sure I keep it slow, which is going to be very hard as my LR (living room, not live rock) is going to look like a mini-fish store for a while. I will have a 55 gallon, my 75 gallon reef tank plus the new 125 gallon tank up. I will be taking the others down once the new tank cycles, but until then it is going to be very, very strange looking in there. I am hoping that I can take the 55 gallon down today as the only reason I am still running that is because of the mud. Nothing else is in there except the sole survivors of 1 blue green chromis (which will go in my 75 gal) and a lawnmower blenny (which I am trying to find home for..already have one in 75 gallon tank)

Anyway, it is very cool. Will take pictures. Nobody except other fish people will be allowed in my house for a while because they just simply wont understand the deal with all these tanks....and the fact I have no TV or other type of entertainment center right now due to the fish tanks. Will spend countless hours looking at the tanks

 

Very cool...We just set up a new 125 Malawi Cichlid tank on Monday...Now I want to upgrade my 72 reef to a 300-400....Congrats on the new tank, definitely post pictures...8)

 

Congrats on your new addition. You know that your obligated to take pics;D. I'll be waiting for them! Luna

BTW, what are you going to do with the other tanks that you'll be tearing down? Do you live in Miami?

 

No sorry. St. Louis The 75 gallon is going to my parents as a present. We kind of got into this hobby together and they helped me build that tank up some. My mom and I get into way too much trouble together when we go to LFS together, so I figured now it is time for them to move up also so I can still have somebody to help me spend money with as their tank is pretty full.

The 55 gallon I am selling back. Thought about keeping it as a Discus tank, but that tank has something wrong with it, it is nicknamed by me as the demon spawn tank

 

Congrats on the new big screen LCD TV, I mean tank!!! hahahha
Enjoy and best of luck to you!

 

congrats!!!!

 

ok these pics are not that interesting as the new tank has not been plumbed yet....


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this is my living room right now. Note the lack of TV (TV actually broke about 1 week before fire in tank), stereo, or just about any other form of entertainment. Just fish tanks. Also I am in process of painting, so it is a real mess. Once the other 2 tanks come down, I will be able to be done. I can not wait...I am sooo tired of painting. I did cover the tanks when I painted and sanded, but it does not look like it there in that picture of the 75 gallon lights....I need to dust

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the new 125. I had to break open 1 of the lights to play with it. I got 2 36" sunpod lights. They are going to be hung from the ceiling, but I had to see what they look like..... Kid in a candy store.

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my Marineland Pro Skimmer. And of course my puppies. They get very jealous of the tanks (I also have 1 other dog that did not pose...a pug) But when I do any type of work on the tanks, the male pup will actually bite me in the butt while the female nips at my feet. I have bruises that would be very difficult to explain!!!

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my sump. It is an Eheim and has a refigum in the back. Light still has not come in yet... Only reason 55 g is still running is because that is the tank that has the mud running.


Now some pictures of my 75 reef before the fire...unfortunately I have pics of corals after the week of hell and they just dont look as good, so these are the older pictures. The corals are starting to recover, with the exception of the acros, which are bleached beyond repair. One of them is maybe starting to get polyps back on them....I am still having hope!

my favorite fish in the tank on one of his new spots
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http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm169/schackmel/101_0973.jpg
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm169/schackmel/101_0969.jpg

Will post more once tank is set up

 

congrats!

 

Beautiful looking tanks. The new one is huge!

 

Very nice...