Well Im going to give you a life story here....pull up a chair and listen well....(or skip down a ways)
I wanted fish and I got one and they died. I got more independant and finally turned 17. I called a lady in the paper about a 35 gallon aqarium and wanted to get it for housing two blackfinned sharks. It was 60 for the tank, or 50 I cant remember. But I looked at it with my GF, and she said if I wanted any others she had some. I ended up walking away with a 55 gallon with a missing horizontall support, light fixture for it that didnt work and drove it the 15 miles back into town a happy camper.
I filled the tank up and did the worst cleaning job on it EVER in the worst order and basically took the longest way ever to do it. But I got it set up, and put it in my room and filled it up(it was bowing like crazy and freaked my mom) so I made a wood slip on support for it to prevent leaking or sudden wetness in my room.
I wanted a male betta, so I put him in my original 1 gallon tank. I got another and put him in a 10 gallon I bought. I wanted to get a oscar so I bought another tank and put him in there(10 g and he needs upgrading soon which sucks). I got another 10 gallon tank from my friend to put two tiny betta females in which one turned out to be a beautiful crowntail. I picked up another one for a spawn tank for the crowntail bettas(didnt work, male lost interest and at day 5 he layed pathetically at the bottom after chasing the female trying to eat her which started after day 3 and he let the bubblenest go. I was so dissapointed).
So I ended up with 4 ten gallon tanks, 2 one gallon tanks which are both empty, and a 55 gallon. I have a grand total of 12 fish between all 97 gallons of water.
I wanted the tank for the enjoyment of myself when my GF wouldnt be able to hang out with me, as she was a CCD instructor, in Ballet, and swimming with swim team and being at meets almost every weekend, I got into fish tanks and they actually psychologically help me with anxiety which is actually really really bad with me that prevents me frmo traveling with my parents or not having control of somthing.
Anyone, as my room went frmo a matress in the corner and a shelf with a Tv to a 55 gallon and stand in one corner, another 10 gallon underneath my TV on the lowest shelf. My breed tank above that. A dressed to hold my oscar and feeder tank. Then Another one to put my two female bettas in.
----To Skip the BLAH start here----
I have a thing with clutter so I looked at industrial shelving costing from 100 to 300 dollars, I decided to use some studs and started mapping out my own. I could make mine to fit two tanks on 3 separate shelves and allow a space at the bottum to fit supplies and whatever else I could use.
Well I got them all cut and made the shelves for it. I have the shelves assembled and it cost me 24 dollars for 3, 96 inch 2x4s and a giant peice of particle board.
I got thme all drilled and screwed together using some old screws from putting our deck together. I primed them with 10 year old primer. Went out to the dump and grabbed a can of amazing quality white paint. Added 3 smaller containers of metalic blue saphire from the crafts section of walmart, bought a 2 dollar brush and went to town on the vertical supports and the shelves creating and beautiful light blue(to mimic water according to my mom).
Grand Total so far:
7 hours planning(i slept for 6)
3 hours picking up wood, cutting, and assembling and primering
2 hours gathering paints and applying first coat(included driving to dump to grab a can. Great system of pick-up/drop-off because you cant really throw paint away. They just stack em all up along some shelving in the side and you can go through whatever and take whatever and drop off whater. Free paint, what a concept
.5 Hour second coat
Time invested: 6.5 hours
Left to do: put shelves and verticals together(made painting easier seperate). Maybe an hour left for total assembly.
Money invested
25$ for wood(I had almost all of it already, maybe 60-75 without any)
4.50 $ for 3 ounces of saphire metalic blue
FREE half gallon of white paint
FREE primer laying around
5$ box of Screws
3$ for two bits
Grant Total: $37.50 (87.50 without wood)
PICTURE TIME
(I will get them added within 24 hours of painting process and assembly)
Left to do:
Add LED strip lights(I find that live plants look awesome, but too diffcult to take care of at this time). I may use one shelf for live plants possibly. Or i will probably use the cheapest lights that produce enough light to see my fish at night. That one is the most probable.
Wire up system for Lights based on shelves for simple on/off
Move all my tanks!!!
I'm SO EXCITED!!!
I wanted fish and I got one and they died. I got more independant and finally turned 17. I called a lady in the paper about a 35 gallon aqarium and wanted to get it for housing two blackfinned sharks. It was 60 for the tank, or 50 I cant remember. But I looked at it with my GF, and she said if I wanted any others she had some. I ended up walking away with a 55 gallon with a missing horizontall support, light fixture for it that didnt work and drove it the 15 miles back into town a happy camper.
I filled the tank up and did the worst cleaning job on it EVER in the worst order and basically took the longest way ever to do it. But I got it set up, and put it in my room and filled it up(it was bowing like crazy and freaked my mom) so I made a wood slip on support for it to prevent leaking or sudden wetness in my room.
I wanted a male betta, so I put him in my original 1 gallon tank. I got another and put him in a 10 gallon I bought. I wanted to get a oscar so I bought another tank and put him in there(10 g and he needs upgrading soon which sucks). I got another 10 gallon tank from my friend to put two tiny betta females in which one turned out to be a beautiful crowntail. I picked up another one for a spawn tank for the crowntail bettas(didnt work, male lost interest and at day 5 he layed pathetically at the bottom after chasing the female trying to eat her which started after day 3 and he let the bubblenest go. I was so dissapointed).
So I ended up with 4 ten gallon tanks, 2 one gallon tanks which are both empty, and a 55 gallon. I have a grand total of 12 fish between all 97 gallons of water.
I wanted the tank for the enjoyment of myself when my GF wouldnt be able to hang out with me, as she was a CCD instructor, in Ballet, and swimming with swim team and being at meets almost every weekend, I got into fish tanks and they actually psychologically help me with anxiety which is actually really really bad with me that prevents me frmo traveling with my parents or not having control of somthing.
Anyone, as my room went frmo a matress in the corner and a shelf with a Tv to a 55 gallon and stand in one corner, another 10 gallon underneath my TV on the lowest shelf. My breed tank above that. A dressed to hold my oscar and feeder tank. Then Another one to put my two female bettas in.
----To Skip the BLAH start here----
I have a thing with clutter so I looked at industrial shelving costing from 100 to 300 dollars, I decided to use some studs and started mapping out my own. I could make mine to fit two tanks on 3 separate shelves and allow a space at the bottum to fit supplies and whatever else I could use.
Well I got them all cut and made the shelves for it. I have the shelves assembled and it cost me 24 dollars for 3, 96 inch 2x4s and a giant peice of particle board.
I got thme all drilled and screwed together using some old screws from putting our deck together. I primed them with 10 year old primer. Went out to the dump and grabbed a can of amazing quality white paint. Added 3 smaller containers of metalic blue saphire from the crafts section of walmart, bought a 2 dollar brush and went to town on the vertical supports and the shelves creating and beautiful light blue(to mimic water according to my mom).
Grand Total so far:
7 hours planning(i slept for 6)
3 hours picking up wood, cutting, and assembling and primering
2 hours gathering paints and applying first coat(included driving to dump to grab a can. Great system of pick-up/drop-off because you cant really throw paint away. They just stack em all up along some shelving in the side and you can go through whatever and take whatever and drop off whater. Free paint, what a concept
.5 Hour second coat
Time invested: 6.5 hours
Left to do: put shelves and verticals together(made painting easier seperate). Maybe an hour left for total assembly.
Money invested
25$ for wood(I had almost all of it already, maybe 60-75 without any)
4.50 $ for 3 ounces of saphire metalic blue
FREE half gallon of white paint
FREE primer laying around
5$ box of Screws
3$ for two bits
Grant Total: $37.50 (87.50 without wood)
PICTURE TIME
(I will get them added within 24 hours of painting process and assembly)
Left to do:
Add LED strip lights(I find that live plants look awesome, but too diffcult to take care of at this time). I may use one shelf for live plants possibly. Or i will probably use the cheapest lights that produce enough light to see my fish at night. That one is the most probable.
Wire up system for Lights based on shelves for simple on/off
Move all my tanks!!!
I'm SO EXCITED!!!