The Salty One

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Well bite my tongue!

Well bite my tongue! We started to receive TFH magazine...(Tropical Fish Hobbiest). My dad used to get it back in the day and it always had tons of info for freshwater fish tanks. First issue comes...and much to my surprise....it now contains tons of info on Marine tanks and Reef setups. We start to puruse the magazine...and before you know it we start talkin about having a salt water tank as they are soo pretty. Too much work though...way too much work.....keep reading...

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Our Salt Water Adventures

So, we bought this tank -- site unseen from a girl in Victoria. We originally bought it for Mom as she had expressed an interest in a hexagon tank. We, at the time, had a 48 gallon freshwater community tank with a couple of discus.

So, Sarah phones up this girl, buys the tank ... and later considers the actual size of this puppy is BIGGER than the one she has ... smart thinkin', eh? NOPE. It's a 65 gallon hexagon tank, stand and lights plus some extras. Rick and Jen pick it up from the girl in Vic and the emails begin. Do I realize how big it really is? It's HUGE! But is it ever pretty looking ...

Hey, did we know that the tank has a hole in the bottom? Um, yah NO. I asked if it leaked, she said NO. How can it NOT leak if there is a hole in the bottom. Well, as the story goes on Rick sends pictures of the setup underneath ... weird box with blue plastic balls in it....and some tubes and a pump. To make a long story short ... turns out we bought a "plumbed" salt water setup. OOPS! The tank was such a good deal that we couldn't have passed it up ... but had we known...? We decide no biggie we will convert to a fresh water setup and Bob's Your Uncle.

We did. Decided to set up as an Angel tank. Very nice looking tank and WOW it was cheap. Considered going with a marine tank but chickened out....too much work.