Hello from Chicagoland

[agrasyuk]

Hi All,
i always fascinated with aquariums, always wanted one and there always was something in the way. Now i finally there and starting out in this hobby with no less then 55 gallon tank - got for a symbolic price from friends who are moving out of state. it wasn't a complete restart, carried over 10 galons of water, plant, rocks and decorations. as much as they advised to reuse the substrate i just couldn't bring myself to do that - i have no idea who in their right mind would use PINK in their gravel. impeller of penguin350 broken off day 4, while it was somewhat easytemp fix i decided to use the opportunity and up the filtering . purchased new rena XP2. wasn't a fan of sunken city backdrop so i replaced it with plain blue. in couple weeks once new substrate is colonized by bacteria i will remove that structure decoration and will be looking for nice piece of driftwood.

7 days since the move and luckily no casualties. ocupants: 3 swords, 1 cory catfish, 1 blue gourami, 4 tetras. nothing fancy but i really like them all. i still need to replant the anubias plant in a proper way.

 

[molliwopp]

Warm welcome to the Aa agrasy. kool tank

 

[melosu58]

Welcome aboard. We are glad you found us here at AA.

 

[agrasyuk]

thanks guys.

did some "gardening" today . got 15lbs of plant friendly gravel, split my Anubias bush into 3 added some java fern on the background and some grass. used 4 tablets of root tab. hopefully this thing takes off )

 

[molliwopp]

thanks guys.

did some "gardening" today . got 15lbs of plant friendly gravel, split my Anubias bush into 3 added some java fern on the background and some grass. used 4 tablets of root tab. hopefully this thing takes off )

Sounds good. Head over to the what did you do with your tank to and share.

 

[Babakapusta]

Have you been to the big Aquarium Store in Schaumburg, on Golf? It is very nice. I spent a couple hundred of dollars there this weekend.

Living Sea in Park Ridge is a great store as is Old Orchard in Skokie. I have a smaller store near Cumberland & Addison in Chicago. It has great fish that are very healthy, also nice plants. I try to support the small guys. He has been around for years and gives great advice. That is Ocean Design on Addison.

 

[agrasyuk]

Interesting name Baba

So far I've been to the place in Skokie, got my gravel there. original owner who passed me the tank shopped exclusively there and had excellent recommendations.

I also been to seaschor in BG, although that was just to looks things as he is exclusively salt water.