Overall we are happy with how the first part of the fish room upgrade has turned out, but
it's not perfect and needs some tweaking.
Hi everyone, welcome back to our little UK fish room.
Our new aquariums finally arrived, so in today's video, we will be setting them up, running
through the total costs involved and finally picking out the fish we want to keep in them.
So first up, we have our three new custom 205ltr or 54 gallons aquariums.
Each aquarium was £240.66, starting the total at £722, including delivery.
Next, we have our Sealey Heavy-Duty Racking unit (non-affiliate link in the description),
which can hold up to 640kg per shelf; this set us back £253.42p taking the total so
far to £975.42p
Three pieces of 12mm Hardwood Plywood to go under the aquariums for extra support, painted
black with waterproof paint costing £66.09, bringing the price to £1,041.51
For decor, we are going for a uniform look across all three aquariums and using Corbo
Catfish Root 30-40cm, £19.99 each x 3.
= 59.97
Superfish Mountain Rock (6 pieces / 5kg) £21.14p each x 3 = 63.42
DIGIFLEX Artificial Plant £10.99 each x 6 = 65.94
The substrate we will be using is JBL Sansibar DARK sand, 10 kg bags x 6; it states that
it's pre-washed on the bag, so that will save us a lot of time.
£20.33 x 6 121.98
and finally, for the decor, 6 x pleco Caves at £3.79 each.
x 6 = 22.74
Adding up all of the decor takes the total price to a mouth-watering £1,375.56.
Unfortunately, we
aren't done yet!
Upon filling the aquariums, we noticed a slight visually unappealing haze emanating from the
JBL sand that was apparently pre-washed, so we then had to take apart everything and spend
almost an entire day washing what I can only call the dustiest substrate we have ever encountered.
We will use the Fluval U3 Underwater Aquarium Filters for
the filtration in each of the three aquariums costing £53.19 each!
= £159.57
Adhesive Thermometer Strips to
keep track of the temperatures costing £4.59.
And finally, for lighting, we will be using Honpal Led Aquarium Lights
at £33.97 each x three.
= £101.91 Taking the complete cost of this project to
a soul-destroying £1,535.13