For those of you who haven't seen our fish tanks get ready, they are what I like to call a tad on the GINORMOUS side!! When I first met Brandon he had recently set up a 125 gallon fish tank in the house, and as we began dating it became a fun hobby for us to do together. Now this fun hobby has turned into a bit of an addiction for us (maybe a little bit more for Brandon!) Once Brandon and I got married, he informed me that the measly 125 gallon tank was just too small and insignificant and that he wanted to upgrade. I thought really? You think its too small? How much bigger of a fish tank can you get? Oh I found out very quickly how much bigger it could get... Brandon began his search for the new and improved fish tank immediately and found the tank of his dreams on Craigslist, which just happened to be 300 gallons...Yea I found out very quickly how much bigger of a tank you could get! So we went and picked it up, or should I say they pushed and shoved it from its stand into the back of Brandon's truck, I though for sure someone was going to bust a vein!
Once we got it home we were faced with the dilemma of how we were going to get an 8 foot long 300 gallon fish tank that weighs who knows how much(I'm sure Brandon knows the exact weight) out of the back of his lifted truck into our house. Thankfully we have wonderful family and neighbors who were more then willing to help. Although I think many of them quickly thought what the heck am I doing here once they started carrying it into the house. In all we had about 6 grown men haul it into the back room of our house, unfortunately this was not its permanent place and it had to be moved again into the front room of our house a few weeks later. Thanks again to everyone who helped move the tank! Now the hard part began... We had to take apart our old tank and transfer all of the water, sand, and rock into anything we could find, and move the fish into some of these buckets. Once everything was cleared out, we began to put together the 300 gallon tank. Here are some pictures of the whole process so far, we are not finished with the tank yet so I will post more pictures as we go. Enjoy!!
Here is our old 125 gallon fish tank
(Most of the fish were hiding behind the rocks because they didn't like the camera's flash)
Brandon welded this stand for the new tank. This is just the support for the tank and once it is done it will all be covered with wood and will look much better!
Brandon is such a handy guy!!
Brandon got inside of the tank to clean it out, this made me very nervous, but it shows you how big the tank really is!
Diesel was such a good helper, although he really wanted to get into the tank with Brandon!
