tuberider
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Here's the tank
If you look in the hall you can see a Brute garbage can for perspective, and yes that is a HUGE chromis, there's quite a few more fish in there now, personifer angel, bandit angel, goldflake angel, red margin wrasse and a couple of other nice fish. Oh yeah, that is not my rockwork, I repeat I did not do that column thing, nor do I ever
Anyway the tank being tall is only half the story if you look at the ceiling line in the hall and transfer that over into the office where the access is, add onto it a large Hamilton MH VHO set up, you can imagine how limited the access really is. Most of you know I'm not a large person (5'6"), so that adds to the challenge. Would you believe me if I said I can, test, wipe down, service filters and do a 50 gallon water change in 1 hour 15 minutes with on site mixing?
Long ass pick stick, long ass Kent scraper, and the holy grail, the Mighty Magnets Super Algae Sock. With the sock I can get the sand line without scratching the tank, literally burying the wetside of the magnet in the sand. The office side is easy to get with the scraper since that is the working side. Generally if I'm involved with the setup on a large in wall unit like this, I prefer the header to be elevated and a large piece of removable moulding with magnets be placed above the tank so I can access the front, in this case obviously that didn't happen, it's a rescue tank
If you look in the hall you can see a Brute garbage can for perspective, and yes that is a HUGE chromis, there's quite a few more fish in there now, personifer angel, bandit angel, goldflake angel, red margin wrasse and a couple of other nice fish. Oh yeah, that is not my rockwork, I repeat I did not do that column thing, nor do I ever
Anyway the tank being tall is only half the story if you look at the ceiling line in the hall and transfer that over into the office where the access is, add onto it a large Hamilton MH VHO set up, you can imagine how limited the access really is. Most of you know I'm not a large person (5'6"), so that adds to the challenge. Would you believe me if I said I can, test, wipe down, service filters and do a 50 gallon water change in 1 hour 15 minutes with on site mixing?
Long ass pick stick, long ass Kent scraper, and the holy grail, the Mighty Magnets Super Algae Sock. With the sock I can get the sand line without scratching the tank, literally burying the wetside of the magnet in the sand. The office side is easy to get with the scraper since that is the working side. Generally if I'm involved with the setup on a large in wall unit like this, I prefer the header to be elevated and a large piece of removable moulding with magnets be placed above the tank so I can access the front, in this case obviously that didn't happen, it's a rescue tank
