MartinP
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So, after walking my kids to school, conversation turned to getting pets. I managed to talk them away from anything furry and talk turned to a fish tank I had when my son was 5 and my daughter was a baby. My son loved it and had fun remembering all of the various inhabitants which he had named. That tank was a 65l tall hexagon tank, so I soon realised that I was so restricted to what I could house. Even though I had upgraded my filters to Eheim external, I always yearned for something bigger.
Anyway, after the school run, I got to thinking about another tank, so ended up online to check out what was available on eBay. I started looking at Eheim filters as a starting point and whiled away a few hours when I should probably have been doing something more important!
One auction jumped out at me, it was a full set of tank, filter(s) and everything needed. The only problem was that it had a “buy it now” price that was more than I had wanted to pay. But 15 people were already watching it, so it could have disappeared at any time!
It was for a ND custom built 200l tank (80x48x50cm) Eheim 2217 external, Eheim Biopower 200 internal, a ton of Eheim filter media and all sorts of peripheral stuff to finish off. But it was 50 miles away and I don’t have a car. After a lot of umming and ahhing and talking to friends, I hit the “buy it now” button!
Fast forward a week and I now had a decent sized (compared to my last one) tank in my front room!
More to follow. Including pics.
Martin
Anyway, after the school run, I got to thinking about another tank, so ended up online to check out what was available on eBay. I started looking at Eheim filters as a starting point and whiled away a few hours when I should probably have been doing something more important!
One auction jumped out at me, it was a full set of tank, filter(s) and everything needed. The only problem was that it had a “buy it now” price that was more than I had wanted to pay. But 15 people were already watching it, so it could have disappeared at any time!
It was for a ND custom built 200l tank (80x48x50cm) Eheim 2217 external, Eheim Biopower 200 internal, a ton of Eheim filter media and all sorts of peripheral stuff to finish off. But it was 50 miles away and I don’t have a car. After a lot of umming and ahhing and talking to friends, I hit the “buy it now” button!
Fast forward a week and I now had a decent sized (compared to my last one) tank in my front room!
More to follow. Including pics.
Martin