A dream comes to an end... My 300 gallon tank has to go!

A quite short time ago, I recieved a termination note from my landlord. He sold the house I live in and everybod has to moove out (5 families), because the new landlord wants to live here himself. Quite bad timing, but probably there is never a good timing for these sort of things.

We looked quite hard to find a new home and finally found one, that fits our needs. ALMOST all our needs.

I never talked about that, but I am quite a geek concerning aquariums. I always had some of them and always did a lot of experimenting and building stuff on my own. Sometimes I made rear walls from natural stones, often I build aquarium stands, I invented and improved filter techniques and a lot other things. Since we last had to move, I had no aquarium but really wanted a seawater aquarium.

One night just before Xmas 2016 I found one that was perfect for me. An insane big one for almost no money. It was a 300 gallon tank with almost everything needed to run it perfectly, including automatic refill, waterchanging, big pumps with good names. Unfortunately it was HEAVY and dirty.

You can't imagine the task bringing it into my home and cleaning it. It involved hiring the local youth fire brigade and several months of work...

I build the stand on my own, using the plans provided by a sick inventor calling himself "rocket engineer", who is building really insane wooden aquarium stands for years. See here some of my efforts during the building process:

the "ingredients"


Can you see the "german perfection"?

done ;-)

Actually I am selling everything with a tear in my eye. So much work, dedication and effort without seeing at least one fish swimming in that future paradise.

Hopefully I can find a small spot in our new home to put another aquarium in. Probably a much smaller one, unfortunately.

Read you soon!