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I know I know I’ve been absent for awhile but the aquarium finally arrived after two months. After renting a table scissor lift and two other friends to help, we got it onto the stand. I leveled the aquarium and currently looking into aquarium insurance as well having a truss engineer to verify...

So I received the shrimp from flipaquatics. Despite the shipping delays by USPS, my shrimp all made it to my home alive and well. They spent 6-7 days in transport. Flips did a great job with packaging and even tossed in a couple freebies too. Anyone thinking about ordering shrimp, I highly...

Ok thanks! I’ll have to check them out too. I went ahead and made an order from flipaquatics earlier. We’ll see how that goes. Nice! Thanks for the tip. I’ll look into that as well. Plenty of tanks to fill...but I agree. Hopefully they ship fast and do a good job with heating/insulation

Dang that’s a bummer. I’ve had various kinds of snails and the minute any fish is interested in them the snails don’t do well and will stay in their shell or try to float away in hopes to escaping to a new place. Sometimes if I don’t notice the fish picking on them, I will find out because they...

Nice! Yeah I’ve considered getting some. I don’t have a great place locally to get some. Do you have any good recommendations from where to buy online? I think I may try flipaquatics for the first time. Anyone tried them?

I planned on taking this tank down anyways. Hopefully I can save the plants though

Interesting. So treat it in the tank directly? I may try that. I don’t have anything to lose at this point I’m not worried about melting if it doesn’t kill the plant completely. Seems to be all one the gravel too so I’m not sure if just doing a dip will help...but I may resort to that if I just...

So I was planning on taking down one of my my Fluval Spec Vs. I placed the fish and snail that were in here to my 55 gallon. I did a 50% water change on the spec and added easy carbon from aquarium coop just to try it out to see if it helps with some of the small amount of algae I had in my...

Awesome job with the video man. Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed the music that went along too!

I’ve got the door panels mounted. Not sure if I’ll keep them this way long term but I think it looks sleek for now. Still have the trim to add. Since I have to move the stand to its final position where the aquarium will be set up, I’ll wait to add the trim then. Here’s some updated photos for now.

Filling in real nicely! Well done!

Got it! Will definitely be sure if that. Thank you!

Sounds great! I'll have to look into that. Yes, it will be pre-drilled and centrally located internal overflow built in from Planet Aquariums. With respect to leveling, are you referring to ensuring the stand is level in all areas? I've simply measured every aspect of the stand and ran a level...

I used to do that when I had my eheim 2262. It wasn't a bad set up for my 140 gal since I could easily drain from the tap. I have decided to run a sump with the 310 set up. I like the ease of hiding heaters in the sump as well as access to the filter media without turning the pump off/priming/etc.

I'm taking in all the advice so it's much appreciated. I have a 90 gallon to run as a sump for a filtration with adequate flow...more on that later. I plan to have adequate plants but will run all LEDs for lighting; it will be a low energy set up. As far as water changes, I am putting in a...

It does and I don't plan on raising juvies in the aquarium. I have a lot more research to do before I decide to plan and introduce discus but if I really had to I can see myself watering the grass during the summer with the water changes but that leaves me with the winters...ice park? lol

No but the front glass panel will be low iron...I think they call it crystalline glass. I haven't seen these in person but they are supposed to be much clearer. Oh and yes I know it will be very heavy!!

Great set up man! I would agree that your plants looked great from the start but can understand when it get's overgrown and you have to look at new ways to re-scape just because that's part of the hobby. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out with the new growth.

Update: the stand for the 310 is pretty much complete. I am waiting for the aquarium before I mount the doors and trim. I want to make sure the stand trim overlaps the aquarium trim properly since I don’t know the dimensions of the trim on the aquarium. I added some new plants to the 55, sword...

I’ve added a group of female bettas to the 55 gal. They’re quite entertaining. We’ll see how they do.