Tank maneuvers!

So I have a 120g tall with a mix of Africans and an empty 120g long in my garage. I will be fully gutting the 120g tall and putting the majority of it into the 120g long in my garage. Then the 120g tall will be re-done as a discus tank!
I will take pics of it as I go!
Wish me luck!

good luck

cool

120g tall as it is now;







The 120g long in my garage where most of the 120g tall is going;




The wet/dry sump will be plumbed up later, for now I am just going to slap a cascade 1200 canister on it.

did you use the loop method for the wet/dry on the 120 tall?

Yes sir I did! Thank you for the idea!

Pics of the 2 mystery fry that were living in the overflow will be later on

see now if you were really cool, you'd take your backup return pump and use it to drain the tank with. Be sure to use a ghetto pre-filter so you don't sand up the impeller.

Both are very nice tanks.

Well I plan on moving most of the water to the 120g long and my ghetto water change system only has a 20' hose and its looking like I would need 2 stops on the way and I only have 1 fishy trash can......

The 120g long set up only cost me $50 and 3 20g longs and a bag of fry

A good 1/2 of the water is moved over and I'm now waiting on it to come to temp, the tap water was a little chilly!

Ticked off mchengas The largest are about 5". The 3 holding girls are in another bucket along with Isaacs stubborn pleco that wont come out of the rock



The 120g long with most of the decor, still lots of sand to move



The mystery fry from the overflow. They are both the same, I am guessing white top hara?

The last of the fish; 3.5" black calvus. 5" syno ocellifer and 2 Paralabidochromis chromogynos "Zue Island" that will hang out in there till Sam gets them


Look mom I made a mess!!

Got the majority of sand out of the 120g tall

Time for the dirt


The 120g long is a mess because I didn't wash the sand before putting it in..... oh well!


Time for a large latte so I can get this done tonight!

Oh and all 3 holing mchengas were very kind and spit in the bucket for me so now I need to figure out where to put all the wigglers.....

Mud pie anyone?


Now for the sand. Looks like I may need another bag though....

Ok the 120g long is done other than plumbing up the wet/dry filter and adding more sand and some rearranging of the rocks.

The 120g tall now has sand!



I need to locate a cheap power compact fixture for the lighting of the 120g tall. It will be planted and I am very happy with the results of the power compact lighting on my planted 90g discus tank.

And now for the really slow process of filling it

And here is the blank slate for the 120g tall discus tank!


I will do a new thread on the rest of the set up on the 120g tall.

Wow looking good fern...I really like those 120 talls ral nice tanks

Looks like a lot of work but worth it

It defiantly was a lot of work!

Elrollo, I like them too but they are tall and I am short so they present some difficulty's for me