Ok, well, you can't actually look because I don't actually have any pictures yet (but I will eventually.)
I'm very impressed with my new purchase and since all of my friends couldn't care less, I figured I'd tell you guys about it:
I got
-A 75 gallon tank
-A home-made, very ugly stand that I'm going to fix up and make pretty. It's very nicely constructed. Actually, it isn't even that ugly, just stained a dark, yucky color, and it doesn't have a cabinet, just a bottom shelf.
-An Emperor 400 filter, that was in use up until about an hour before I bought it, so it's filled with bacteria goodness. It is a little noisy, but it's several years old so I'll give it a break, and I've only had it running for a day now. I'm told they get noisy after they're unplugged, then quiet down after a while?
-A box of replacement filters
-A heater. Not sure the brand/wattage, but he was using it in the tank before I got it.
-Two lights. No clue what type/wattage or anything like that, but I'm not getting into plants for a while anyway so I don't care. They light stuff up, so tyhey work as far as I'm concerned.
-A crap-ton of gravel
-And a little 2 (and a half? Possibly bigger--haven't checked it out yet) tank that he just gave me to carry the gravel in. (This is an excuse to get another betta!)
For 80 bucks. Rock and roll.
He offered me a choice of fish, but they were all Oscars and Red Devils and Dempseys and things like that, and I wasn't interested in them.
I managed to impress my mother with this when she saw the filter alone in Petsmart for $74.99 Of course, I casually failed to metion that PetsMart's prices are grossly over-inflated.
So, yeah, I'm happy.
I'm very impressed with my new purchase and since all of my friends couldn't care less, I figured I'd tell you guys about it:
I got
-A 75 gallon tank
-A home-made, very ugly stand that I'm going to fix up and make pretty. It's very nicely constructed. Actually, it isn't even that ugly, just stained a dark, yucky color, and it doesn't have a cabinet, just a bottom shelf.
-An Emperor 400 filter, that was in use up until about an hour before I bought it, so it's filled with bacteria goodness. It is a little noisy, but it's several years old so I'll give it a break, and I've only had it running for a day now. I'm told they get noisy after they're unplugged, then quiet down after a while?
-A box of replacement filters
-A heater. Not sure the brand/wattage, but he was using it in the tank before I got it.
-Two lights. No clue what type/wattage or anything like that, but I'm not getting into plants for a while anyway so I don't care. They light stuff up, so tyhey work as far as I'm concerned.
-A crap-ton of gravel
-And a little 2 (and a half? Possibly bigger--haven't checked it out yet) tank that he just gave me to carry the gravel in. (This is an excuse to get another betta!)
For 80 bucks. Rock and roll.
He offered me a choice of fish, but they were all Oscars and Red Devils and Dempseys and things like that, and I wasn't interested in them.
I managed to impress my mother with this when she saw the filter alone in Petsmart for $74.99 Of course, I casually failed to metion that PetsMart's prices are grossly over-inflated.
So, yeah, I'm happy.
