Update 11/07/10
First thing this morning I siliconed some foam down in the bottom of the tank, because there will be alot of rocks going in.
The tank has a 12mm ridge brace above the bottom glass, so it works well to hide the foam from view.
I also did some more siliconing and reinforced the weir where all the filter and heater gear will be hidden.
I added some more foam background behind the holes so it wasn't just white behind them, the holes will get covered up in due course,
but for the meantime i felt it helped a bit.
This is what the 4ft looked like this morning as i just started to work on it.
A hour or so later
Several more hours later,
I had thought that my neon Blue rams had eaten all the shrimps, as I saw them killing one last week,
but Boy was i Wrong!! Unfortunatly this ment dismatling took till 4pm in order to catch all the shrimp, which where a nightmare to find,
as the water was cloudy, and i had to slowly lower the water level to slowly compress there range so i could find them.
after about 3 hours of shrimp catching, using a torch with the lights turned off in the tank (turned out to be the most effective way, easier to see/find and catch)
I got this little lot, if you call them $1 each the hourly rate isn't actually all that bad considering there must be about 200 shrimps in there..
Finally all the shrimps caught (maybe lost 50 juvies, but too dam hard to see/find)
All the rocks gone, added some gravel to mix in.
Gravel from both the 4ft, and my old 5ft discus tank added to the new tank.
Probably ended up with more gravel than i need, but i do need alot for what i'm planning, if you think that i'm just going to add plants now, well you better keep a eye on the thread over the next few days.
Ended up with a mixture of Seachem Flourite red, regular Flourite, Flourite Dark and Flourite Black... lol
Thats all for tonight,
thanks
Juls.