Filter For Sale with aquarium fish & plants etc Free

[Caryl]

MUST PICK UP (and catch the fish yourself) FROM BLENHEIM. Prefer all to go together for ease of dismantling. Can offer 2 large (50L?) barrels with sealed lids for transport. Barrels are 52cm high and 54cm diameter. Might be 3 barrels if I can find the other lid.

I have a 280 - 300L tank I am shutting down. It has been running over 22 years now. If someone wants it, they are welcome to it but it needs complete resealing and there are light scratches on the glass, although I suspect if you turned it around the back side may be a lot better. Good for a frog tank or terrarium though. Everything is free except the filter. I would like to see that sold as a fully cycled item, rather than get rid of the fish then have the bacteria in the filter starve. I am embarrassed how bad it looks these days but we were finding it increasingly difficult to do regular maintenance and now Grant has died, I can't manage the filter by myself (back problems).

Tank - 122cm wide x 50 x 54cm front to back. Glass is 1cm thick and takes 3 or 4 strong people to lift, unless it is dismantled on site (preferably after it is empty 🙂 ). It has 2 sheets of thinner glass on top that the fluorescents sit on but has about a 10cm gap.

Lighting: Single old-style fluorescent tube in even older-style bracket, with timer.

Filter: Aqua One Aquis 1200 and must be picked up (especially if full of bacteria etc as it is heavy). $100 (they retail $160 - $200 new)

Heating: External heat pad covering tank base with internal thermostat.

Fish: 50 - 60 Odessa barbs, 2 or 3 gold ancistrus (1 is a huge male) and about 7 brown ancistrus (a mix of sexes). May be more but I never see them all at once.
These fish have never been with any other fish, as nothing has been added to the tank for at least 15 years - all are self populated.

Plants: Java moss, Cryptocoryne affinis (I think), Anubias nana. Sorry but the Anubias has a lot of algae.

Substrate etc: Brown aquarium gravel and 2 large rimu pices of driftwood.

You will probably be given all sorts of other aquatic paraphernalia, including extra filter media (if you want it)