Okay so I bought a Oase 85 styleline today. It was an existing set up from another aquarist. And substrate with a Montecarlo carpet at the front. What looks like tropica soil, and some grey seiryu stone as hard scape.
It came with active filters that have been running up till today and there are some snails in the substrate and I have some aquarium water plus the filter water retained.
Problem is due to health constrictions I cannot carry anything heavier than a bag of shopping and I have gone to bring the tank in to the house from the car and even with all the water removed and only half the substrate left in there and a bit of water that has leaked out from what was left of the substrate I just can’t lift it. I can’t get anyone to come and help me carry in until tomorrow and I am thinking that by then the snails in the substrate will start to have died off, and the bacteria in the filters will equally have gone south.
I am open to suggestions or just the honest truth if it’s a case that I’ve lost the bacteria by tomorrow evening which is when my mate can come and help me.
Also there are a couple of small bags of plants, well one bag of plants and one bag of moss. They are currently in plastic bags with a bit of water and I am wondering what the best thing to do with them is should I just wrap them up in tissue paper and keep them damp and dark until tomorrow? I know that people post plants so hopefully they would last that long and what about the rest of the set up? Or would you just advise starting afresh?
i’m a bit disappointed not in what I’ve bought because it was a bargain and the chap I bought it from was a legend, but more so in the fact that I still can’t lift this flipping thing. I have even messaged a couple of local man with a van people but got no response from them and there was me thinking people wanted work.
anyway folks that’s the score I would be grateful for your input and advice, as soon as possible so I can put my mind at rest or at least accept that I can’t win this one, and have a glass of wine instead👍👍
It came with active filters that have been running up till today and there are some snails in the substrate and I have some aquarium water plus the filter water retained.
Problem is due to health constrictions I cannot carry anything heavier than a bag of shopping and I have gone to bring the tank in to the house from the car and even with all the water removed and only half the substrate left in there and a bit of water that has leaked out from what was left of the substrate I just can’t lift it. I can’t get anyone to come and help me carry in until tomorrow and I am thinking that by then the snails in the substrate will start to have died off, and the bacteria in the filters will equally have gone south.
I am open to suggestions or just the honest truth if it’s a case that I’ve lost the bacteria by tomorrow evening which is when my mate can come and help me.
Also there are a couple of small bags of plants, well one bag of plants and one bag of moss. They are currently in plastic bags with a bit of water and I am wondering what the best thing to do with them is should I just wrap them up in tissue paper and keep them damp and dark until tomorrow? I know that people post plants so hopefully they would last that long and what about the rest of the set up? Or would you just advise starting afresh?
i’m a bit disappointed not in what I’ve bought because it was a bargain and the chap I bought it from was a legend, but more so in the fact that I still can’t lift this flipping thing. I have even messaged a couple of local man with a van people but got no response from them and there was me thinking people wanted work.
anyway folks that’s the score I would be grateful for your input and advice, as soon as possible so I can put my mind at rest or at least accept that I can’t win this one, and have a glass of wine instead👍👍