bigbratt
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The Hubby asked what I wanted for Christmas this year....unlike previous years I had an answer for him. " I want a bigger tank " was my answer. I was thinking that if I got the tank for Christmas we could take things slow...build a stand...build a sump...save up for MH lights and maybe by next Christmas everything would be up and running and I could tranfer what I have now and that would give me a good start on the bigger tank.
I have a 33g with about 60lbs LR, 40lbs LS, a HOB prism skimmer, a fluval 204 filter for flow and 3 ph's that has been up and running now for 6 months and I found that I just couldn't do as much as I wanted with it. Wasn't enough room to get it the way I wanted.
So now that I have put the little bug in his ear, he's off and running....he picks out a tank, then takes me to see if I like it. 90g drilled and plumbed tank, it will fit perfect in the spot it has to go into...so he ordered it....then he finds out that the lfs that he got the tank is selling her 2 x 250w MH that she has only had on her window display tank for 3 weeks for a really good price, so he takes that as well. So while he's waiting for the tank to come in he decides that he will start on the stand, spends the whole weekend on it, and gets the call on the Sunday at 3:00pm that the tank has come in. So off we go to pick it up...stand it ready except for holes for plumbing.
So now he has to figure out a sump with fuge and everything that will fit into the stand and still leave me with enough room to work.
I'm thinking...I just asked for the tank....how much is this costing right before Christmas....
Well I guess he decided that he wanted me to have my new tank up and running by Christmas and so he completed it by the 12th of December, ready for water and some new live sand as the 33g didn't have enough sand to fill the 90g.
Tank is on stand and in place, with water and sand in it on the 15th, just in time for us to go to my staff party, go to party, get home about 1:00am, he sits looking at the tank with water and sand in it...looks at me and says ok lets transfer everything over. Ok I'm game, had a few drinks at the party...I'm not really tired, I asked him if it's called impaired aquadics? So at 4am we are done.
I really don't know what I did right to get all this....
Christmas morning there is an envelope in a box wrapped under the tree with all the receipts...and another envelope that just has $ written on the outside...he couldn't wrap live rock or corals and put under the tree he said.
Off to all the lfs boxing day...:snshne:
I have a 33g with about 60lbs LR, 40lbs LS, a HOB prism skimmer, a fluval 204 filter for flow and 3 ph's that has been up and running now for 6 months and I found that I just couldn't do as much as I wanted with it. Wasn't enough room to get it the way I wanted.
So now that I have put the little bug in his ear, he's off and running....he picks out a tank, then takes me to see if I like it. 90g drilled and plumbed tank, it will fit perfect in the spot it has to go into...so he ordered it....then he finds out that the lfs that he got the tank is selling her 2 x 250w MH that she has only had on her window display tank for 3 weeks for a really good price, so he takes that as well. So while he's waiting for the tank to come in he decides that he will start on the stand, spends the whole weekend on it, and gets the call on the Sunday at 3:00pm that the tank has come in. So off we go to pick it up...stand it ready except for holes for plumbing.
So now he has to figure out a sump with fuge and everything that will fit into the stand and still leave me with enough room to work.
I'm thinking...I just asked for the tank....how much is this costing right before Christmas....
Well I guess he decided that he wanted me to have my new tank up and running by Christmas and so he completed it by the 12th of December, ready for water and some new live sand as the 33g didn't have enough sand to fill the 90g.
Tank is on stand and in place, with water and sand in it on the 15th, just in time for us to go to my staff party, go to party, get home about 1:00am, he sits looking at the tank with water and sand in it...looks at me and says ok lets transfer everything over. Ok I'm game, had a few drinks at the party...I'm not really tired, I asked him if it's called impaired aquadics? So at 4am we are done.
I really don't know what I did right to get all this....
Christmas morning there is an envelope in a box wrapped under the tree with all the receipts...and another envelope that just has $ written on the outside...he couldn't wrap live rock or corals and put under the tree he said.
Off to all the lfs boxing day...:snshne:
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