ikevi

Sorry I forgot to post this yesterday here:

Tue:
Well I thought you all might like some prep pictures... We haven't gotten everything quite setup yet. But all tanks will be finished filling tonight. And I will have the air supply fully working tomorrow. All tanks are treated with Prime and have a PH of ~7.0 and in essence no KH and GH (IE Atlanta tap water).

Anyways pictures:

Ken Davis (fishfarm) is pushing the cart. Sadly I can't remember the other guys name. He is helping while visiting from the U.K.



Some of the wood we used... Ron had to go pick up more since we ran out...


We have over 600 tanks...


And time to work... (We started around ~2pm, I had to leave at ~11:45pm.)

Assembling stands.





Putting some tanks up. (20 talls on the top, each table is holding about 1000 lbs...)

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Ah the joys of filling fish tanks.


Finally one shot of me. (Crud shot on top of it.)


Oh and this was just the show room and the rental room. A divider will go up when we get everything fully setup. (IE by 5 pm tomorrow.)

Wed:

There are already amazing fish up in the show room. I am very tempted on buying a few more discus...

I personally was stunned by some fish. (Some are amazing, but a little young, there are a bunch of huge ones, and the Discus, holly smokes.)

Anyways I was working from 8am to 10 pm. I am dead tired. Here are a few more pictures. (Show room and rental room.) Unfortunately I was so busy I didn't get a chance to meet many people. (And I was dead tired by the end so I just had to get home and now I am off to sleep.) The good news is I don't have to do much till Friday now. (I just really only have to pick up the 30 odd boxes of donated fish.)

The only real problem we had is that people have managed to break about 16 or so tanks... and well all the extras already had been claimed. So sadly we don't seem to have enough for everyone.

Some pictures.

This is what I came back too: Most tanks were full, but the rental tanks needed a lot of work. Stands weren't all made, but they ran out off wood.


Everyone got to work, Kirsten and I got the air flowing. (We did a good job even if I say so myself, there is if anything a little too much air.)





Rental room up and running. (It was fun getting that tubing in the middle, we lost at least 1 tank from it...)



And the show room again, people are unloading. (I will likley be taking a decent amount of pictures of fish... I will likely make a new thread without prep.)

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There were some frayed tempers today, and I am sorry if I snapped at anyone. But all in all I think it went well again. (We just know order 50 tanks extra next time...)

Oh and we can't have any heaters on the tanks. The rooms are at 80 degrees. Sadly if we put heaters we would loose power since the fuse box can't tank it. And there are many more people than I showed here (even though registration opened at 5 pm)... I sort of didn't get to taking pictures till late this time.

I will try to get shots of everyone... I noticed I have missed Dino even though he is always there watching like a hawk.

Lucy

Wow look at those all those tanks.

Thanks for taking the time to share the pictures with us.
I imagine one could go crazy with all the fish that're going to be there.

macroman

Thats an awesome pic sequence, thanks for sharing
love the organised chaos, lot of hard work going on there.
great post!

Martinismommy

Wouldn't it be cool to have a spare room in the house for all those tanks! lol.....Great photos!

Butterfly

Thanks for the pics Kevin. Isn't that Dino and Rosses backs in pics# 4 & 5?
If you would like it would be cool to just keep adding all your pics in this same thread so everything will be together.
Thanks for sharing
Carol

Darlene

Thanks for posting all the pics.

ikevi

Ha I did get Dino and Rosses in. (I was thinking of shots of them at there posts...) More pictures will be posts very soon.... many many more pictures...

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So here are some fish photos and some people shots. I personally got to busy after 1:30 since I and a few other people set up oh ~25 more tanks. I also was in charge of making sure all the donated fish got into tanks and weren't going to die. (I say I did a good job considering the circumstances.) All fish were doing well when I left. I dread bagging for tomorrow.

Needless to say I am dead tired again. But before I sleep here are photos:

First most fish from the top row... I took these early before things got crazy so I missed a bunch. I learned a bunch about Discus from Discus Hans. Though sadly I had to miss his talk since I was dealing with the 30 boxes of fish...

I am not going to comment much.

Fish:

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Fish room again:

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A very controversial fish... Beautiful fish but well needless to say every person stops at that tank for some reason or another.





Now this is what I was doing... Most people likely heard me yelling over the top of everyone to get things done. Needless to say people get chatting here. (Oh and I have to say this is a lot more work then I expected... )

Anyways what happened was 30 boxes were picked up by me and John. From there I and a bunch of AAAA put them into the tanks we had... Sadly about 15 had broken so we didn't have enough tanks. We stuffed the fish into 10s till we had some more tanks brought in. (A family that I wont name since I don't really want to say last names, but mad props to them.) Anyways 2 55s, and many many more tens/twenties/fifteens were filled by me and Becky. We ended up moving about half the fish to new tanks. Refilling some tanks with new water and more fun.... Anyways here are some more pictures of some of the temp tanks setup.

Butterfly

Good job Kevin! Looks like everyone worked really hard! Sorry so many tanks got broken .After this is all over any chance of going back and ID'ing the fish. I know what Discus are but some of the others I don't.
Carol

Lucy

Wow, unbelievable that all that can get done in a matter of days, good work.

Why is the orange fish controversial, what kind is it?

tzqng8

I was wondering the same thing.