"New" 75 gallon, yay craigslist

[sevenyearnight]

Besides my two GSPs, I have in another tank my husband's senegal bichir. I say it's his, but I take care of him. We have been planning on upgrading his tank so I've been searching craigslist and local sales. Craigslist here is ridiculous. People charge up to 3 times as much as something costs new, and often times they are a horid mess and come with useless and hideous things. Recently I found an add stating that they had a "100 gallon", which I knew had to be a guess because 100 gallons isn't a super common size. I was hoping it was at least 75, and of course would have loved it to be larger. So, it was listed as having lights, "pump", and stand all for $100, we get there and they lied about the measurements to make it sound larger, it was just 55 gallons. It did not have a light hood, I don't know how, but the biowheels were mangled, I think a cat may have played with them, or they put them in the washing machine to clean them, and the stand was cheap and paint chipped. I say to him, "Where is the light hood?" he says, "Well, it got chewed so I was afraid it wouldn't be safe so I threw it out." I was annoyed that he lied in the ad, but also thought it was funny that he unintentionally made a pun. His wife comes in and proceeds to tell me, "It's a hundred gallons, and it's 199 in the store, and that stand is 300 dollars alone", when in actuality a 55 gallon at Petco right now is 55 dollars, and that stand is $129 at Petsmart, and it's truly not worth that even, it was quite hokey. So I gave her the "Are you serious?" look, so then she points at the 3/4 of the way full milky water ten gallon next to it, with 3 very unfortunate large goldfish in it and says, "See that's 10 gallons so you can see that that right there is 100 gallons." So my husband looked at me and asked me how many gallons it is, I said "It's 55 gallons", and I had measured it for them since they had done it incorrectly, neither one of their facial expressions changed. My husband said, "Well, yeah see it's 55 gallons, it's not 100. So yeah. Um it's not 100 gallons, so we're not buying it.

But today, right above an ad called "5 gallon fish tank vary nice", in which the ad states, "5 gallon aquarium for fish for sell it was a starter kit i payed 30 for it will sell for 45 includes all the fish", was an ad for a 75 gallon. However tempting it was to scoop up that 5 gallon death trap that is such an awesome deal for only a 50% upcharge of the new price, I decided to check out the 75 gallon instead. I know, I'm as insane as that deal I passed up.
I was so pleasantly surprised. Tank, light strip, magnum 350 canister filter, some type of hang on filter, some drift wood, rocks, various fish related products, some salt mix left over from the saltwater tank he took down in the next room, a bunch of very tasteful fake plants, and I'm not sure what else he added to it all, and a very sturdy well built custom stand all for $120. I'll post some pictures as soon as I have some, I'm so super excited to set it up, but I must say I really wish I were setting it up for my puffers instead of the bichir, but their tank upgrade is the next. Our bichir's name is Mortimer, and he has one tank mate who is the most boring fish in the world, Seven the Blue Acara.

[FADE2BLACK_1973]

Better deal the 75 gal. was. Alot of scams to get people to buy something that they think they can get away with when or if it's someone that don't know what they are buying but looked like it back fired here. Glad you all knew what you were doing.

[sevenyearnight]

Hahaha, part of me thinks that maybe they "believe" that they had a 100 gallon, but considering they blatantly lied about it having lights, I'd have to say they are just bad liars. Oh, and I forgot the bit about him telling me I can get a light hood for $20 dollars at the store. I guess it's not the same store that sells that tank for 199 and the stand for 300.

[FADE2BLACK_1973]

Hahaha, part of me thinks that maybe they "believe" that they had a 100 gallon, but considering they blatantly lied about it having lights, I'd have to say they are just bad liars. Oh, and I forgot the bit about him telling me I can get a light hood for $20 dollars at the store. I guess it's not the same store that sells that tank for 199 and the stand for 300.

Yeah, I don't know who they are trying to kid but they don't know anything about tanks or like you said "just bad liars"...lol. Hey I know where to find a 48" CoralLife power compact light strip for $40.00 but it is used. I might go take a look sometime. It's from a cichlid breeder near by so you know he knows his stuff and what he is selling. But you aint going to find a brand new 48" light strip at the store for $20.00..lol

[sevenyearnight]

I took some pictures of some of the stuff, I'm not familiar with some of the containers of "stuff", so I'll be googling them. I don't even know where to set it up just yet. I was thinking of selling the stand to someone since I already have a steel case credenza, but I'm not sure then where to put the 29 gallon that is on it currently. Wow, cleaning used stuff is no fun at all.

[FADE2BLACK_1973]

Looks like a deal to me. Why did they have so many heaters anyways? Stealth heaters at that except for one that I can see. Oh and even a rock, you got a sweet deal with that rock added...LOL...

[sevenyearnight]

Yeah that rock is amazing, not sure how he parted with it. I'm not sure why he had so many things, I think he used to be a breeder.

[sevenyearnight]

Amazing rock. Lol.

[Pufferpunk]

Just tossed that in there?

[sevenyearnight]

I guess he didn't see it's potential. It was an unappreciated rock.

[Pufferpunk]

A cute rock!

[sevenyearnight]

lol, it was really funny when he was putting things in a bag, he specifically pointed that rock out to me, "This is a rock", so I thought it would be funny to bring the rock with me today to pick up the stand. He will probably just think I'm silly for painting a rock and gluing eyes on it, and double silly for bringing it with me to show him.

[FADE2BLACK_1973]

lol, it was really funny when he was putting things in a bag, he specifically pointed that rock out to me, "This is a rock", so I thought it would be funny to bring the rock with me today to pick up the stand. He will probably just think I'm silly for painting a rock and gluing eyes on it, and double silly for bringing it with me to show him.

LOL, that rock is something special now..lol. It might had been his lucky rock or pet rock and now looks like a puffer rock...lol.

Btw, when you carring that rock around with you and even painted it. I probley though wow I must had sold this stuff to one whack job and thought you loved the rock more the the whole set-up...LOL...jk.

[sevenyearnight]

Just filled, cloudy, sparse decor, and no backing, but filled. Mortimer watched us and my husband is convinced that he knows it's his new home.

[Pufferpunk]

Morti's gonna love that!