The Tank Guy
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hiya everyone!
New here, but I've always known of this site, just never made an account before. Been out of the fish keeping game for over 10 years due to where I live, but I moved recently so It's no longer an issue. Last month I nabbed me two 55 gallons for $45 in a driveway one day going home. I know, heck of a deal. They're old Marineland tanks. I just couldn't pass it up. The only catch, they had been used as reptile tanks so there are scratch issues and need of resealing due to some leak issues. I'm currently in the process of going over the insides of one with cerium oxide. I plan on doing it good enough to where I eventually get even the deepest ones out after 5 jillion hours, haha. I'm not worried about the glass going paper thin since it's old school thick...well...like a tank. heehee. I plan to be running a discontinued and used, but like new Fluval FX5 I'm getting from a friend and another that is of output equivalent with biofiltration. I'll prob move on to something more recent with that FX 5, it's just to get one tank started and on it's feet. So the tanks will be very well filtered for their size. I'll be doing fully freshwater fish only, no brackish.
I'm enjoying it though. It's a pain working on the scratches, it's project I don't mind and love it. In fact I've been stressed out lately from life so I figured getting back into my passion would do me mentally good and destresser. It makes the tank more personal. My main point of this is post is that I've been trying to think of what to keep in them/ what to do. My imagination is everywhere.
Let's have some fun here I suppose. List me what you would stock Tank 1 & 2, for example (2x bla bla). This would help me conjure up ideas of fish I may have never thought about.
New here, but I've always known of this site, just never made an account before. Been out of the fish keeping game for over 10 years due to where I live, but I moved recently so It's no longer an issue. Last month I nabbed me two 55 gallons for $45 in a driveway one day going home. I know, heck of a deal. They're old Marineland tanks. I just couldn't pass it up. The only catch, they had been used as reptile tanks so there are scratch issues and need of resealing due to some leak issues. I'm currently in the process of going over the insides of one with cerium oxide. I plan on doing it good enough to where I eventually get even the deepest ones out after 5 jillion hours, haha. I'm not worried about the glass going paper thin since it's old school thick...well...like a tank. heehee. I plan to be running a discontinued and used, but like new Fluval FX5 I'm getting from a friend and another that is of output equivalent with biofiltration. I'll prob move on to something more recent with that FX 5, it's just to get one tank started and on it's feet. So the tanks will be very well filtered for their size. I'll be doing fully freshwater fish only, no brackish.
I'm enjoying it though. It's a pain working on the scratches, it's project I don't mind and love it. In fact I've been stressed out lately from life so I figured getting back into my passion would do me mentally good and destresser. It makes the tank more personal. My main point of this is post is that I've been trying to think of what to keep in them/ what to do. My imagination is everywhere.
Let's have some fun here I suppose. List me what you would stock Tank 1 & 2, for example (2x bla bla). This would help me conjure up ideas of fish I may have never thought about.
