So I have been really busy with work now that I am no longer a full time college student! I really enjoy my new job as a Youth Pastor, and I start my part-time job at the YMCA next week! In the meantime, I thought I would take a lil bit to tell everyone what happened after the birthday fiasco.
If you read my last post, you'd know that I bought my mom a medium sized tank, a 45gal on the same day that she came home with a 75gal. Since then, my wonderful Dad has built a stand that holds the 45 gal tank on top, and the 30inch 20 gal tank sits on the bottom shelf. It looks wonderful and we have gotten both tanks set up and fully established. S.D. is very happy in his 45gal tank. The 20 gal is subject to overcrowding, but that happens with guppies.
The 75gal tank is on a gorgeous cabinet my Dad built. It's completely closed in so that we would have a place to store all of the Fish equipment. For Christmas I bought Mom two filters, one submerged filter for 40-65gal tanks, which we are thrilled with for the 45 gal tank, and a Canister filter for the 75gal. We had never used a canister filter before, so we weren't sure what to expect. Canister Filters are generally what aquarium stores use in their tanks, due to the amount of water they can filter.
In our search for filters, being the young techie obsessed kid that I am, I was leaning heavily toward the newest innovation in filters. The Fluval G6, it just sounds like an awesome sports car doesn't it? Anyway, we didn't end up getting the G6, due to the fact that if it broke, it required more computer knowledge than we would know what to do with, and it was very expensive and I had already spent to much money at christmas. I do think that the G6 is the way to go, and if I move out and start my own fish tank again, I think I'll go with it, only if I manage to inherit the 75gal. :)
We went with the regular Fluval, but we went with the Fluval that would run 80-100 gallons, not the one that was made for the 55-75 gal. This is because we wanted to be sure that we weren't going to buy a filter that would be doing all it could do.
