charleyfandango
New Member
Newby to here, relative newby to fish.
Recently moved to a sheltered accommodation flat a few miles from the Humber Estuary (moved the tank myself - NEVER doing that again). Tank is a 160 litre, basic, no frills with a few mixed Tetra, a grumpy Bristlenose and a handful of idiotic Cories. Might be persuaded to get something more flashy in the fish department once the current crop fizzle out but right now, perfectly happy with what is in there.
Moving the tank and fish was an utter nightmare, fortunately everyone including myself survived but not doing that again. Ever.
When taking up the rental of the flat and mentioned I had a tank, was asked how long, wide, tall and "exactly how heavy is it?"
The joys of living "upstairs". Thank goodness there is an elevator as would never have managed dealing with stairs.
But now sorted in a flat with the noisiest, creakiest floor in the world (fortunately it is the floating floor that is noisy and creaky and not the concrete one underneath)
Definitely recommend checking with "would be" landlords about the strength of floors when residing upstairs with a tank otherwise an indoor waterfall might accidently happen.
Just going to see what can be learnt here, ideas and generally compare notes.
Recently moved to a sheltered accommodation flat a few miles from the Humber Estuary (moved the tank myself - NEVER doing that again). Tank is a 160 litre, basic, no frills with a few mixed Tetra, a grumpy Bristlenose and a handful of idiotic Cories. Might be persuaded to get something more flashy in the fish department once the current crop fizzle out but right now, perfectly happy with what is in there.
Moving the tank and fish was an utter nightmare, fortunately everyone including myself survived but not doing that again. Ever.
When taking up the rental of the flat and mentioned I had a tank, was asked how long, wide, tall and "exactly how heavy is it?"
The joys of living "upstairs". Thank goodness there is an elevator as would never have managed dealing with stairs.
But now sorted in a flat with the noisiest, creakiest floor in the world (fortunately it is the floating floor that is noisy and creaky and not the concrete one underneath)
Definitely recommend checking with "would be" landlords about the strength of floors when residing upstairs with a tank otherwise an indoor waterfall might accidently happen.
Just going to see what can be learnt here, ideas and generally compare notes.
I have a 240l tank that was set up before we had chance to decorate....safe to say the living room will have a tank-shaped unpainted space on the wall if we ever leave this house! Welcome aboard!
