I don't know if anyone remembers the good deal I got on the 55 gal tank, stand, and junk... but I still haven't set it up yet... we really shouldn't do anything with it til we move... at any rate I've put off cleaning it for a while. Then two weeks ago my landlord wanted some people to come see the apartment because they are renting it this fall. So in cleaning I moved the tank outside... my wife said she would clean the tank but she was just in a cleaning mood that day. Since then it's been sitting on the patio, still unclean, waiting for one of us... I finally got tired of it being out there so I went outside to clean it today... I found a tick on it... then another, and another. I pulled of at least 5 ticks from the tank... It wasn't in the woods... It was on the patio... So it had me wondering if there was something about the tank that attracted the ticks... I squished two of them, put the other three I found in a jar... don't know if I missed any... I cleaned the tank, good enough for now but still a pain... through it over my shoulder and carried it inside... now that it's clean it will be harder to not set it up yet. oh well........ anyone have any ideas about the ticks... perhaps I could invent a tick collector/trap... I may just get some chickens when I move.