The fish I bought grows to 30cm long, also want a shark, so now I'm looking at upgrading my tank yet still use my existing external filter.

Current tank is 3ft and about 110L, my pump is good for 120-250L, so I want to go for a 5ft tank (60x15x18) which is 228L.

Anyone know anyone selling one or can point me in the right direction to looking for one?

Found this unit which would be ideal.

Any help appreciated!

 

what about this one ??
http://www.reefstock.co.uk/index.php...oducts_id=1180





pmsl

 

what fish you get?

 

Yeh cheers Ginge

 

Its called an Oscar.

 

bad will eat everything especially a shark oscars are cichlids from south america and get on with nothing else new tank size will be ok but theyre messy feeders so need a much bigger filter

 

I have this one 60" x 24" x 24" but not in this colour



bought it ages ago from http://www.ndaquatics.co.uk

just checked their current catalogue price and its Ł446 with the cabinet or Ł216 tank only

They do a variety of sizes, worth checking their site. If i were to buy another one i'd like the 30" tall tank instead of the 24".

 

if the 24" thick tank is too large they also do a

60" X 24" X 18" (361 litres)
Price with cabinet: 409.00 Ł
Price without cabinet: 193.00 Ł

 

oscars will eat comunity fish mate my 2 did lol

 

ive got a 300 ltr tank and cainet for sale mate a jewel bowfront

 

Just means I would have to change my filter, but pm me pics and a price, if its billy bargain, I might get the bigger filter and keep mine as a spare..

 

join a forum m8, there LOADS of tanks for sale, Dirt cheep!!

 

Yeh I am a member of one, had a look already and nothing suitable really.

Might just get that one in my 1st post as its ideal ..

 

Bought my tank



Big enough?

It weighs an ABSOLUTE ton, I'd say the glass is over a cm thick all round.

Now at the moment I have a 3ft tank, fully established for well over a year, water perameters perfect.

In my ultimate wisdom, I wrongly calculated that my current filter (Tetratec EX700) would be able to cope with this tank (max 250L), but now I found out my tank is about 330L. LOL.

So, I've already bought a Tetratec EX1200 (500L maximum).

What is the best proven way to transfer the beneficial bacteria from my EX700 to the EX1200? Are they the same size with the trays only a bit taller? Or are the trays inside different sizes? Anyone know?

Can I just take the carbon, sponges and other stuff and put in straight in the new filter?

Any help on this appreciated!

Oh and this came with a 1ft well made base, so I am just going to make this a few feet taller.

 

BTTT

 

Personally honey id just set it up as new and leave it to runs its course... maybe using a little water from your current tank?

 

Hi Maria,

Yeh Ive been asking about on fishforums.net, and they have said its possible to "clone" the media. This coupled with using as much water as possible out of the other tank and daily monitoring for a few weeks with extra water changes as necessary and NOT getting any more fish til its all sorted again should give the best results.

Then I can get the whales

 

Thats HUGE

I bet it takes 2 of you one each end? obviously empty

 

Mate, it must weigh over 150kg and had to carry it from the front of drive to the back garden there.

I want to put it on the floor now and fill it with water to check for leaks and clean it up. I asked my partner to lift it to the floor, and she couldnt even lift her end off the table.

It will be about 0.5ton when filled with water

 

Well two none puny blokes each end i meant

150kg sounds about right

Hope the leak test goes ok

 

Cheers dude, just waiting for one of the neighbours to come back from work, then gonna bug him to help me



Gonna dig out my wood again for this tank, quite liked the look of it, nad would be a shame to waste Ł50 worth of wood

 

Nice one, although that will probably look more like a twig in your new tank

Get some more pics when its all set up and the fish are in.

 

Nice tank fella, put a snakehead in it

 

Will do!

Im still filling it, been going 45 minutes with hose pipe on full

 

try moving a 7ft x 3ft x 3ft

never ever again

 

You will be the cause of summer hose pipe bans

 

If it were my tank, i'd use all of the old tank water (110litres) in the new tank along with 110litres of fresh water, and run both filters as its always a good thing to overfilter your water.

Then instead of weekly/fortnightly water changes like you would usually do, i'd add more water until the tank is eventually full. Then you could alternate filter cleans, do one every 2 weeks, soeach filter is being cleaned every 4 weeks, the tank should be very stable if its ran like that imo.

 

any pics ?

i'd love a 9ft x 3ft x 3ft marine reef tank in place of my current tropical one eventually

 

no because i was moving it out!

my red tail out grew it, so i found a home for him in a local aquatic shop

 

shame, oh well... at least he found a good home

 

Just seen your post about wanting a fish tank in the wall. My parents have this could see from the lounge or the kitchen roughly 1.5 foot depth 8 foot wide and 4 foot tall.

Just waiting for my little brother to get home and send me pics.

 

Yeh a few people have said to run both filters, and I know that overfiltering is a good thing.

I clean my filter about every 2-3 months at present, never had any issues since starting the tank. I do weekly 20%'ers tho.

I'm going to be running 2x150W heaters one each side the tank, but I didnt particularly want to run 2 filters. Thats the reason I bought the ex1200 (good for 500L tanks), so surely this is overfiltering by quite a bit on its own. Was going to keep the EX700 purely for a backup should the 1200 fail..

Thanks for the advice!!