Well, if you look at my prior build, you will see I lost it in the great Texas freeze of '21. So when my wife and I were discussing what to do next, we decided we were going to upgrade to a little bit bigger tank. There were a few things about the last one that was getting annoying as the tank matured. But all is in the past!
We went shopping and I really wanted an 8 foot tank, so we ended up purchasing the 8 foot Crystaline Series from Planet Aquariums. Planet tanks are made locally here in Arlington, TX. In fact, I know exactly where their facility is, I used to go down to that area for work. Anyway, ordered it in March, on my birthday! and it was delivered on May 14th!
When we purchased it, we had our choice of stand finishes, we chose the traditional Mahagony.....then my wife decided to re-pain the living room a grey....Had we thought ahead, would have chose a different finish.
So the delivery guys leveled the tank for me, which took most of the time. You can't tell from the picture, but the front door is just off to the right...so it was an easy delivery for them. I definitely did not want to do it! So the dudes did forget the sump....it was a little funny, I asked the guy about it, he looked in the stand and walked out to talk to the other guy without saying a word. Then they came back in and said it was still at the warehouse. Which was kind of a bummer, it slowed my roll a little for setting up, I drove to go get it a couple days later.
Must be Italian....name the movie!
Then the cat decided I couldn't put the sump in the stand.
More to come! I took this week off of work just to get this all up and running....
We went shopping and I really wanted an 8 foot tank, so we ended up purchasing the 8 foot Crystaline Series from Planet Aquariums. Planet tanks are made locally here in Arlington, TX. In fact, I know exactly where their facility is, I used to go down to that area for work. Anyway, ordered it in March, on my birthday! and it was delivered on May 14th!
When we purchased it, we had our choice of stand finishes, we chose the traditional Mahagony.....then my wife decided to re-pain the living room a grey....Had we thought ahead, would have chose a different finish.
So the delivery guys leveled the tank for me, which took most of the time. You can't tell from the picture, but the front door is just off to the right...so it was an easy delivery for them. I definitely did not want to do it! So the dudes did forget the sump....it was a little funny, I asked the guy about it, he looked in the stand and walked out to talk to the other guy without saying a word. Then they came back in and said it was still at the warehouse. Which was kind of a bummer, it slowed my roll a little for setting up, I drove to go get it a couple days later.
Must be Italian....name the movie!
Then the cat decided I couldn't put the sump in the stand.
More to come! I took this week off of work just to get this all up and running....
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