Sorry a bit of copy and pasting from my post over at a local forum...

Picked it up on Saturday morning, and everything went pretty smoothly.

Was a little bit worried about casualties, but so far everyone seems to have pulled through.

Completely overstocked in my opinion, but I plan on letting go of most of the fish since I bought this tank to become and Oscar tank.

Worst of it all there was a massive Pleco as well as two Clown Loaches in it as well, which I gave away to a friend who helped me out with the move.

Everything was working perfectly, except for the lightbox. It appears the lid isn't the original lid, as it has a lot of evidence of some DIY work done on it. The light unit is a complete DIY job, and wasn't working because the starter sockets had corroded and fell apart.

I managed to fix it for now, but will look at getting a perspex lightbox made by a friend as replacement which can serve as a condensation plate as well, then I can keep the original lid, or maybe even replace that with another layer of perspex with a feeding hole and such.





Lots of clay in the sand had a bit of a river water effect, looks worse here than in really was.





Tonight things look much better...



Yes I know there's a fake plastic ship in the thing, it won't be there for long just put it in so long since I got it free with the tank.



Is this a Labidochromis Caeruleus (Electric Yellow) ?









Quite happy with it all, only problem is the fish that I don't want and what to do with them.

Water level is running a bit low since the suction cup for the Fluval hose is missing and I can't get it in place where it can provide enough surface agitation without spraying all over the place.

Hoping to get an Air Pump in the week so I can run a spray bar on the wall-side and camouflage the pipes and heater with it, while providing some aeration.

There's a Green Terror / Saum that came with the tank that I would like to keep, and possibly the Pleco as well.

Found someone selling two Oscars, 1 x Tiger and 1 x Tiger Lutino, but they are unfortunately about a 1000km away from me, so not sure I want to take the risk unless someone professional can do the packing on that side.

Tank is currently running on a Fluval 305, which is fine for now but will need to be upgraded down the line.

tank looks great.
as for the yelow lab he actually looks a little orange to me but it could be the photo. yellow labs are a canary yellow with the same black on the dorsal and anal fins like the one in the pic.

as for the filtration it should do for a bit but you should look at upgrading in the near future.

good luck with your new set up

Yeah will either upgrade completely, and move this Fluval to my other tank, as maintenance seems to be a whole lot easier on the Canister filter.

Or I'll just have to look at adding something to it, to help with filtration.

Will keep a close eye on the parameters and sort that out as I go along.

Very nice SauRoN, I love your tank and the fishies

Love it!
When i went to check for my tank I also checked these tanks out.
Great view you got!

love the tank, and the fishies are beautiful... nice buy

only thing i can say is i would so go diff route cause i saw that and thought wow that would be an awesome bar for my apt toss a piece of glass on top make a new stand and light from the bottom but im just digressing due to being jelous of that awesome looking tank and fish!

Now my next problem is that sand doesn't seem all it was cut out to be.

Sure it's black, but even if it were white you would see the amount of crap laying on top.

Contemplating reverting to gravel, before I lose momentum.

or you may try combination: sand with gravel.
the only set back is that once you mixed them,
it will be difficult to separate them if you find
it not in accordance to your liking

Well I have some coral chips that came with the tank, maybe I'll try mix them up.

Should be easy enough to separate, if I want to split them again. Might look nice with a bit of black and white mix.

Maybe I should look at black gravel instead of black sand, easy enough to find I think.

whatever mixture you decide, please keep us posted.
i am now using size #5 white pebbles and it look great