Once again, thanks for the advice! I will post a couple of pics of my aquarium soon. Then you can tell me how cheesy my fake coral center piece and fake plants look with my blue gravel. LOL!!! If I were to do it over again I would get the natural looking substrate and I would have rather went with a natural looking rock piece or drift wood. I suppose if I were to consider changing those things this late in the game I would completely screw up all of the hard work to get the cycle where it is, right? I don't know what I was thinking. It could have been worse though. I almost went with green and florescent orange gavel. LOL!!!
I am planning to get a 60 or 75 gallon in the next couple of months and I will definitely be doing a natural theme for it. One thing I do know 100% is that when this tank gets set up I will be doing a fishless cycle for sure. I'm actually excited about it and not having to worry about the fishes will be good too. Would there be large benefit for me to go with the 75 over the 60 other than the 75 being deeper front to back? I kind of like then 60 gallon though because it is only 12" deep, is 48" long and over 24" tall. I can see the advantage of having the extra 6" of depth with the 75 though.
Here is my other dilemma. I will be putting the new tank where the existing tank is now. Is it okay to remove like 90% of the water, leave the fish in and then move and set everything back up in it's new spot? I suppose if I do it quick and carefully it would be okay, right! I will of course have someone help as the tank with even just 10% left in will be quite heavy. Will the fish be sloshes around too much? Should I remove them to a bucket or something for the move? Would only be a short distance move.
Wow! Is it really 1:13am? I'm glad I'm off work tomorrow. It's my daughters 3rd birthday tomorrow.