funny family fish story - Aquarium Advice

tropicfishman · 01-24-2007, 01:00 AM

well its more ironic than anything but here goes. I was looking through my local sunday newspaper and saw under a " misc. " add that some had a 120 gallon tank, with stand, ehiem 2217 canister filter and tons of accesories for 350 bucks!!! so I gave it a thought, called the guy, waited a couple days and called him agian about coming to see it, he said he had another fella looking at it the same day, but if he didn't take it was mine, so I left and go tthere a few minutes sooner than I was suppose to to scope out the competition lol . approaching the house I see a familiar truck...its my brother lol being where he works alot we haven't got to talk abou tthe fish tank we both saw for sale, turns out we both were going to buy it and surprise each other once we got it home ( he has his own house ) so instead of bank rupting my account, I chose to let him have it and have been helping it set it all up and get it cycled, its became our pet prodject ( no pun intended lol ) this tank is SHARP, no scratches or cracks, it was used to house a bunch of red eared sliders but I never realized just how much a 120 gallont nak form the early 80's weighs, I can't imagine how much a 265 or osmething like that weighs empty lol

locorosa · 01-24-2007, 01:17 AM

Nice!!! Funny story too. I can just see the look on both your faces...

joannde · 01-24-2007, 09:23 AM

Too funny ! Its a good thing you showed up early - imagine if you hadn't and the two of you got into a bidding war over it ? LOL

theotheragentm · 01-24-2007, 11:06 AM

"Let's see who this jerk is going to buy my tank..."

That's too funny. It would've been funnier if a fight broke out over the tank.

tropicfishman · 01-24-2007, 03:47 PM

lol it was funny, at first I was mad as can be, but I just started luaghing eventully lol I do think I pulled a muscle lifting on sucha heavy bulky tank

01-24-2007, 01:00 AM	#1
tropicfishman Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ashland KY Posts: 1,890	funny family fish story well its more ironic than anything but here goes. I was looking through my local sunday newspaper and saw under a " misc. " add that some had a 120 gallon tank, with stand, ehiem 2217 canister filter and tons of accesories for 350 bucks!!! so I gave it a thought, called the guy, waited a couple days and called him agian about coming to see it, he said he had another fella looking at it the same day, but if he didn't take it was mine, so I left and go tthere a few minutes sooner than I was suppose to to scope out the competition lol . approaching the house I see a familiar truck...its my brother lol being where he works alot we haven't got to talk abou tthe fish tank we both saw for sale, turns out we both were going to buy it and surprise each other once we got it home ( he has his own house ) so instead of bank rupting my account, I chose to let him have it and have been helping it set it all up and get it cycled, its became our pet prodject ( no pun intended lol ) this tank is SHARP, no scratches or cracks, it was used to house a bunch of red eared sliders but I never realized just how much a 120 gallont nak form the early 80's weighs, I can't imagine how much a 265 or osmething like that weighs empty lol __________________ I love my clown loaches and red tail shark!!! lol

01-24-2007, 09:23 AM	#3
joannde Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Clearwater, FL Posts: 1,724 Images: 6	Too funny ! Its a good thing you showed up early - imagine if you hadn't and the two of you got into a bidding war over it ? LOL __________________ 35G barebottom: 2 boesemani rainbowfish, 4 congo tetras, Low light plants (1.5wpg) attached to or planted in my own handmade ceramics - Anubia v Nana, Anubia v Barteri, Red Rubin Sword 2.5G - Spot (beautiful betta - Soft pink with red spots on his fins. Java Moss.

01-24-2007, 03:47 PM	#5
tropicfishman Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ashland KY Posts: 1,890	lol it was funny, at first I was mad as can be, but I just started luaghing eventully lol I do think I pulled a muscle lifting on sucha heavy bulky tank __________________ I love my clown loaches and red tail shark!!! lol

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01-24-2007, 01:17 AM	#2
locorosa Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 337 Images: 10	Nice!!! Funny story too. I can just see the look on both your faces...

01-24-2007, 11:06 AM	#4
theotheragentm Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,177	"Let's see who this jerk is going to buy my tank..." That's too funny. It would've been funnier if a fight broke out over the tank.