setting up my 90g

I finally got it set up!
Here it is draining after the initial leak test and rinse. Note the siphon running into PVC that is routed out the back door.

And the slow adding of washed sand

And the refilling

I added a good 20lbs of sand from other tanks to help avoid a cycle as well as an emperor 400 that was borrowed from a different tank.
More pics coming soon!

Very nice! I like them 90s, mine is growing on me...

Its a little too tall for my liking but I got the tank and stand for $75 so I'm not complaining! I may end up having to get a mask and snorkel for tank maintenance... I cant reach the bottom of the tank without sticking my face in the water

Thats funny!!!

Ya I get to swim in my tank

go fern, go fern, go fern,

lol I have to wear a wife beater (scary isn't it?) when I reach to the bottom of my 55 or my shirt sleeve gets wet

I was going to do sand in my tank but after washing the sand I put the first bowlful in the tank and saw the cloud and removed it so I have river rock instead :P

ssteelhead wrote:

lol I have to wear a wife beater (scary isn't it?) when I reach to the bottom of my 55 or my shirt sleeve gets wet

I was going to do sand in my tank but after washing the sand I put the first bowlful in the tank and saw the cloud and removed it so I have river rock instead :P

I always wear a wife beater when doing my tanks... I always end up soaked with some nasty crud or another on me

CajunGator wrote:

vERY nICE pICKUP..... Glad your set up has begun. Congrats..
Keep the pictures coming on your Setup, and esp. the Final Tank.
Congrats.

I will try to take some pics of it tonight. It has my red jewel fry in it now along with a few plants and some driftwood I pulled out of my 75g and tossed in it. I need to take a video of the red jewel fry, they follow me around the tank! Its the cutest thing ever!

fry are so cute

they think your mom :) i like the pvc set up for drainage lol. are you just gonna have the fry in the tank?

I love setting up new tanks I hate the cycleing part. I can't wait to get my 125 gal this spring. It's going to be a lot of work moving fish and tanks around but will be fun.

What are you going to stock it with? I can't wait to see it when it's done.

I rig things up like that PVC all the time! If I don't have the tool for the job I make it
Nope, the fry are just in there till they get bought (soon I hope) and to keep the bacteria alive. After that I'm not sure yet whats going in the tank.

Snowflake, I didn't have a cycle at all. 50% of the sand was taken out of cycled tanks and so was the filter. I also washed 2 dirty filter pads in the tank so that the bacteria I washed off them could spread about the tank.
If you have a few up and running tanks you can steal enough substrate, decor and filter media from them that you never have to wait on a cycle.

Oh yeah I know about seeding tanks. But when I set up my first tank I really did not like to cycle it. For my next tank i'm just going to Move filters around or run a filter on my old tanks for a few weeks before setting up.

Can't wait to see what you will put in it.

It's coming along nicely. Keep us posted w/ more pics.

More pics when you get further along!

Well I got stuck at home with a sick kid today and the working computer doesn't have a card doohickey.....So yall with have to wait another day or so for more pics.
I'm not really doing any real decorating in the tank till I get the red jewel fry out of it.... Why make it all purdy when you will just have to tear it up again?

congrats on the smokin deal u got their fern!!
cant wait to see how it ends up lookin when ur all done!!!

Ok here is some more pics of how it sits now. There's nothing really fancy going on in it yet.... Just some sand, a stick with some java and windleves fern and a sword plant that I have yet to plant. The current stock is a gaggle of red jewel fry and a bunch of Malaysian trumpet snails. The filtration is 1 emperor 400 and an ehem aquaball till I get a filter for the tank.

Sorry about how fuzzy the jewel pics are.... They were eating

nice lookin jewel!!! and tank haha
way to go! looks great!
wat u plan on puttin in their after the jewel?

This will be the fronts and moorii's temporary home till I get my bigger tank and get it ready to go. Then.... I'm not sure.... It may turn into an all male cichlid tank. But I really don't know yet

A gaggle eh? Is that the correct word for fish groups? I thought it was just for geese

A gaggle is a whole bunch of fish that I'm too lazy to count