Tank at Work

For my birthday/Christmas I received just what I asked for, a 6 gallon Eclipse fish tank and all the fixin's, of course it was the only thing I asked for period so take it with a grain of salt.

To my wife's chagrin I couldn't help myself and had to immediately prepare my tank to go to work. An extra wooden brace for my desk due to the weight, cut a piece of foam to cushion the bottom, rinse my black sand. Yeah, black, it's awesome. I got everything ready to go and brought it to work. Since I'd found a great looking betta the day before and was going to get it on my lunch break I had to set it up before lunch. Thankfully my boss didn't seem to mind as I spent about an hour puttering around with it getting everything in and the tank filled. At lunch I met my wife and we got something to eat then we took my boy to the store to find a fish. He hadn't gotten a nap and was too cranky to be any help but he was enthusiastic about getting to see the fish.

I picked out my fish and came back to the office and put him in. After the tiny cup he'd been stuck in with water that was... well its best not to talk about it, he seemed to enjoy having space to swim. He spent most of the rest of the day swimming around his new place poking his head in every corner. He was shy and would scoot away when I got close to the tank but today he's gotten a lot bolder, even spending time watching me work and interacting with me a bit. I put my finger next to the tank and he tracked me running it up and down the side. Yeah it's not much but try and get a platy to do anything but beg for food.

Last night we asked my boy to name the fish. He knows four words for fish, fishy, guppy, shark, and whale. Shark won. Shark is already proving to be far more photogenic than any of my other fish, holding still long enough to get some great shots of him.


The wood has already started to stain the water a golden hue, I'm loving the look. Sadly I didn't estimate sizes very well and the T-Rex skull I got for the tank is just too big to get in it. It'll have to wait for another tank.

Some of you are probably wondering what is wrong with me. Putting a fish in an uncycled aquarium. Well what you can't see in the pictures is that the filter is loaded up with biomax pellets under the blue cartridge and behind the biowheel. Those are the same pellets I've left in my aquarium's filter so they are already seeded with bacteria. All I've got to do now is wait for the bacteria to migrate from the pellets to the biowheel. I plan to leave them in until the first cartridge change then I'll take them out.