Time For A Change

[SJ2K]

After a long, hot and sweaty thursday afternoon I finally got round to re-doing the tank it needed it ...O and sorry about quality, only taken on my phone.

Before:

After:

 

[blueblue48]

Awesome rescape!! the lighter sand really brightens things up

 

[stevea6221]

wow much better

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Omg SJ TO the K, You was right, the sand is better......top one looks so bare like one neon tetra in there

second one looks awsome job

 

[SJ2K]

Ta ace, all real plants now aswell fish seem to like it (because of course, tetra are so expressive ).

 

[kpintheshed]

looks good how long did it take to get all the gravel out

 

[SJ2K]

Longer then id hoped the old gravel size varied alot, some was almost a fine sand so it wasnt easy to clean (ended up lugging the whole tank into the bathroom alone to wash it with the shower head)...Few tips for anyone thinking of changing over.

1) Make sure you buy a huge net! Its incredibly difficult catching fast fish with a 3" net
2) Buy a few spare buckets, emptying and re-filling a tank with 1 bucket is a nightmare.
3) Dont expect it to go to plan, so be prepared to think on your feet

 

[shelaghfishface]

looks 200 times nicer ( looked nice to start with tho). my goodness that was a lot of work, i did mine and lack of paitence meant 60% wc for 5 days to clear the cloudiness, but its great now and was well worth the hard work, and urs looks ace!!

shelagh xxx

 

[paul_219]

I liked the after tank looking gr8.

 

[SJ2K]

Cheers Was worth the effort, cant believe that tacky gravel seemed so 'cool' in the beginning

 

[Helen G]

Much better

Looks more natural now

 

[three-fingers]

Apart from the gravel, I quite liked the first tank.

But now it looks MUCH better!

 

[Bigpig]

what sand did you go for in the end?

Looking good

 

[SJ2K]

Due to my financial situation (aka, MOT due) I went for argos playsand, no regrets