FishyNoob Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Wow, yay for you guys and your awesome forums My name is Alex and I live with my hubby, 2 kids, 14 pet rats, dog, cat and foster kitten in Rangiora, Canterbury! I've not had a heck of a lot of experience with fish - bar having goldfish and danios at various stages of my life. Yesterday I was at the local sallies shop and scored an excellent 200L aquarium for $150 and all the fittings (I know, deal right?) which I plan to plant out and populate with lots of pretty coloured tropicals! To save me from photospamming you all, heres a link to my facebook folder with the pics of the Aquarium. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150543633327383.393920.639707382&type=1 Now, it's absolutely filthy dirty - looks like it's been stored outside for ages for the amount of pollen on it.. its also got left over nasty scaly stuff in the filter area which I can assume can be cleaned out? I plan on cycling the tank empty for a few months to get it into pristine condition before I plant it out and ad fish! Also, whats the deal with this type of media filter? I've only ever had experience with those plastic aqua-one type thingees. Any advice or help would be appreciated! xox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Welcome. It will good to see the finished product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishyNoob Posted January 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Totally! I cant wait to have it all set up. advice on where to go to get stuff apart from redwood aquatics? I love them, but I know of another place which I cant remember the name of! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 hi and welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 welcome aboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li@m Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 & Welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLB Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Hi and welcome. For some reason the link doesn't work for me. I get..... ''This content is currently unavailable The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page.'' You should be able to clean the scale off with a razor blade. Redwoods are great and another good LFS is Organism in Ilam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Must be you MarkLB - I can see it fine. May be internet issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Hi and welcome! You may have to be logged in to Facebook to see it MarkLB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLB Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 You may have to be logged in to Facebook to see it MarkLB :oops: Ah yeah, that'll be it. That scale should clean off easy enough, a bit of elbow grease will do it. The white tubes are ceramic noodles for the biological filtration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishyNoob Posted January 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 lol I have an incredible amount of stuff to learn! thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted January 24, 2012 Report Share Posted January 24, 2012 Welcome FishyNoob 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 Welcome I don't have facebook so I can't view the photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted January 25, 2012 Report Share Posted January 25, 2012 I think you can set the permissions to public so non-face book users can view Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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