[GSAS-Member] Aquarium Set-Up for Fish Show

["Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

Cameroon and Trish will be there early today, to help me unload the aquarium
and stand for the African fish tonight. Since my landlord won't let me store
the aquarium in the garage, I will have it up for sale or trade. It is a
40-gallon acrylic with a blue background, that Frank Tomko gave me, and was
originally used as a sump for a saltwater tank; there are 1" holes drilled
into it in several areas, which I have neatly patched with squares of clear
acrylic, and with acrylic solvent fused them on. I built the stand in way
that would hide the holes at the bottom. The stand I built with father and
is covered by a birch plywood veneer on three sides, and has a birch door
from the Adel kitchen cabinet series from Ikea in the "As Is" department. It
matches perfectly, but the catch is that it needs one more Adel cabinet
door, and it will be beautiful. It needs two sets of European hinges which
will cost $5 or $10 at Ikea. The seams are covered with galvanized steel and
screwed every 10 cm. It is very sturdy, "Ikea" looking and is light blonde
wood with the silver. It does not leak; I used it for several months before
I set-up the 100-gallon I bought from Mark Pearlscott, and then successfully
killed all the occupants in a chemical accident, that were supposed to go
into the 100-gallon. Only the least expensive fish died, the free
Heterandria formosa, one Cory, and the Amano Shrimp. Now I built up my
discus population back up in the new tank to four, with some Emporer Tetras
instead of Cardinals, to try something different, and the usual cleaning
crews of SAE's, Otos, a pleco (Royal Xingu), and a couple more cories. Make
me an offer. I would like not to take it back home.

 

Susan Welenofsky

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