My AquaOne AR-620T fish tank is basically as old as this blog. 23.5 years! Literally my third blog entry back in January 2003 was about getting the tank and the chlorine in Sydney water. In the early days of my blog, this post got a HEAP of traffic.
It's very sentimental (it was my first tank, and I associate it with CIA, since they paid for it). It's a lovely looking tank. It's glass too, not perspex, although the stand is sawdust which is not great when things leak!!
But the problem is, it's getting harder and harder to get lights for it (Tony has replaced the lights on his with LEDs). I'm also wanting to downsize our fish tanks (we have too many and they're way too much work). So when the last fluoro bulb died recently I decided it was time for it to go. Tony had already offered to fit it out with LEDs, and Jesse would take the tank.
I moved all the guppies and the surviving plants out of it to my other two foot tanks, and today I started to dismantle the tank.
I pulled everything off the top and cleaned it all off. I still need to drain it and clean the glass.
It's pretty sad to see it go, but it'll cost me less time and money so there's that...
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