keepsfalling
Fish Fanatic
Last week I bid on a 2nd hand tank on eBay... £40 for a 4'7" x 29" x 17" tank, stand, fluval 2 (the guy only had terrapins with a small amount of water in) and a butt heap of gravel!!! £40!!!!
Well.. The tank was about 20 miles away so we set off at about 11:20 this morning to go get the tank etc. Got there 20 minutes early.. And we're then told to follow this guy to his friends house as he's selling it for him.. So we're worrying we're being taken to the middle of nowhere to get mugged and killed or something
We finally get to the place in the middle of the sticks and pull up to this guys house and have to reverse into this tiny driveway. Get into the house and these guys are weird.. I mean real weird.. First of all there was this crazy high pitched noise coming from somewhere in the house which I guessed I was imagining. So eventually someone plucked up the courage to ask what the noise was. One of the guys just casually said "oh, there's a keyboard in that box!" A keyboard in a box under all this junk!! They weren't even fazed by the awful racket it was making.
Anyways.. They haven't even emptied the tank so there's these two bloody terrapins that are in an awful state (one with wolverene style talons) in the tank and about 3 inches of water (I know nothing about terrapins but this seemed slightly odd to me). However, at least there's no leaks (fingers crossed). So they start to empty the tank, me and my partner are just standing there uselessly watching the craziness unfold.
Now this tank is huge.. I mean like, David Blaine water chamber huge. We've already established it's going to take two trips in my little baby car but I'm starting to worry that the tank's even going to fit on it's own. We go outside and are starring at my car in a daze like oh s**t what are we gonna do? When the guy from eBay comes out and is like "right there's no water left - we can move it now"
So the three of them and my partner drag the stand and tank to the door and push the tank off one end so they can lift it and there's like all the gravel in there still and about 2 inches of water still!!!! It must've been so heavy and they eventually managed to man-handle it into my car after about 15 minutes and emptying the rest of the water.
We'd had to push the seats as far forwards as we could so on the drive home it was like being folded in half trying to drive with a huge glass tank behind us and some guy in a jeep up my arse. Eventually we get home after only a couple of mis-haps and wonder how the hell we're gonna get it out of the car and into the house. After engaging the help of next door neighbours it eventually took five people to get it into our house
Now all we had to do was go back and get the stand. You'd think this would be simple enough... But it weighed nearly as much as the fish tank!! When we got back the previous owners helped us ram it into the boot with the drawers balanced on top behind our heads!! We leave their house once again very dazed and start the slow drive home.
Simple enough you may say? No... There was a terrential downpour with water coming down so fast I couldn't even see let alone move I was in such an awkward position.. The roads back into Norwich were flooded it was that bad!!!
I really can't face getting the stand back out of the car for now so I'm just uber glad I don't have to drive to work.. Despite all this hard work though I am uber happy
Not bad for £40 and a tenner's worth of petrol!! In fact, I'd say quite a bargain.... Now....
WHAT THE HELL DO I PUT IN IT!?!?!?!
Well.. The tank was about 20 miles away so we set off at about 11:20 this morning to go get the tank etc. Got there 20 minutes early.. And we're then told to follow this guy to his friends house as he's selling it for him.. So we're worrying we're being taken to the middle of nowhere to get mugged and killed or something
We finally get to the place in the middle of the sticks and pull up to this guys house and have to reverse into this tiny driveway. Get into the house and these guys are weird.. I mean real weird.. First of all there was this crazy high pitched noise coming from somewhere in the house which I guessed I was imagining. So eventually someone plucked up the courage to ask what the noise was. One of the guys just casually said "oh, there's a keyboard in that box!"
A keyboard in a box under all this junk!! They weren't even fazed by the awful racket it was making.Anyways.. They haven't even emptied the tank so there's these two bloody terrapins that are in an awful state (one with wolverene style talons) in the tank and about 3 inches of water (I know nothing about terrapins but this seemed slightly odd to me). However, at least there's no leaks (fingers crossed). So they start to empty the tank, me and my partner are just standing there uselessly watching the craziness unfold.
Now this tank is huge.. I mean like, David Blaine water chamber huge. We've already established it's going to take two trips in my little baby car but I'm starting to worry that the tank's even going to fit on it's own. We go outside and are starring at my car in a daze like oh s**t what are we gonna do? When the guy from eBay comes out and is like "right there's no water left - we can move it now"
So the three of them and my partner drag the stand and tank to the door and push the tank off one end so they can lift it and there's like all the gravel in there still and about 2 inches of water still!!!! It must've been so heavy and they eventually managed to man-handle it into my car after about 15 minutes and emptying the rest of the water.
We'd had to push the seats as far forwards as we could so on the drive home it was like being folded in half trying to drive with a huge glass tank behind us and some guy in a jeep up my arse. Eventually we get home after only a couple of mis-haps and wonder how the hell we're gonna get it out of the car and into the house. After engaging the help of next door neighbours it eventually took five people to get it into our house
Now all we had to do was go back and get the stand. You'd think this would be simple enough... But it weighed nearly as much as the fish tank!! When we got back the previous owners helped us ram it into the boot with the drawers balanced on top behind our heads!! We leave their house once again very dazed and start the slow drive home.
Simple enough you may say? No... There was a terrential downpour with water coming down so fast I couldn't even see let alone move I was in such an awkward position.. The roads back into Norwich were flooded it was that bad!!!
I really can't face getting the stand back out of the car for now so I'm just uber glad I don't have to drive to work.. Despite all this hard work though I am uber happy
Not bad for £40 and a tenner's worth of petrol!! In fact, I'd say quite a bargain.... Now....
WHAT THE HELL DO I PUT IN IT!?!?!?!
