For $30 I couldn't pass it up. It came with a stand (no place for it in my room so its in my car for now), the tank, a heater, an aquaclear 150 filter, a sponge for the filter, carbon for the filter, and Decorations.

The only sad part is the tank has a sealed up crack in it so I need to test it to make sure if it holds water, which I am doing tonight. Even if it doesn't I can always seal it up tighter. Even if I don't I paid less for all of this than I would in a store. So hooray! If the tank holds water it will become my white cloud mountain minnow tank and hopefully I still get the 20 gal for xmas so I can make a tropical tank as well

Pictures below none of the stand though as it has some mold on it (the guy was keeping it in his shed) so I need to get that off.

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thats a great deal bro congrats, im sure your white clouds will definetly enjoy that one a bit more lol

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10g- 2 hi-fin fm platys, 3 koi & red wag sword fry
40g Breeder- 6 danios, 4 female swords, 1 male swords
"I was born with nothin and I still got most of it left."- Seasick Steve

good deal on it man, hope you can fix it and set it up and have a great tank

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thank you, the patch job the guy did on the crack was well done as it isn't showing any signs of leaking, but I am gonna leave water in overnight to be sure.

Also I removed the backing. I ddin't really like it. Are there any other options I could do so it isn't see through past the back of the tank?

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you could paint it, if you wanted to, or petsmart, petco has lots of just solid color backgrounds

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you could just use a normal background and cut it when you have the back half covered?

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10g- 2 hi-fin fm platys, 3 koi & red wag sword fry
40g Breeder- 6 danios, 4 female swords, 1 male swords
"I was born with nothin and I still got most of it left."- Seasick Steve

Cool the solid background color backings sound like a good idea. Maybe if I am ambitous enough I will paint it, probably not though lol.

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yea i wouldnt trust my painting skills to do that haha

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10g- 2 hi-fin fm platys, 3 koi & red wag sword fry
40g Breeder- 6 danios, 4 female swords, 1 male swords
"I was born with nothin and I still got most of it left."- Seasick Steve

My idea is probably going to be laughed at, but I let my nieces draw my background for me lol. I just gave them a large piece of paper and I said to draw fish, water, whatever they wanted. They just went to town with it. It may not be the prettiest, but I love looking at it. It always makes me laugh.

I like that idea. However, I do not have any nieces or nephews. I could have my gf paint something for the back of it, she is an illustrator after all.

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Nice looking little tank, wish the pics were a little smaller though I have to scroll from left to right to see it.

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I like it just because it seems more... personal in a way. Most backgrounds are just those plastic sheet things. You could go all out and craft one from Styrofoam lol. I however am not that talented at all. Your idea sounds good too. It would be nice to look in and see a little bit of what she added to it for you.

I made the images smaller Susan, they were huge when I edited them down they were over 3,000 pixels wide. I brought them down to 600 wide

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Thanks, makes it a lot easier to see.

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np

Quick update. I left water in overnight and there is no leaking so it looks like I will be all set to start cycling the tank when I get home for winter break. I would like to do a fishless cycle, but I don't know if that is possible because I would only have 5 weeks to do it, and I would like to get the fish into the tank as soon as I can (so they have more swimming space).

That being said I will also need to bring my 10 gallon back to school, after I get fish in it and that seems like it would be super stress on the fish.

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Update. Tank has been filled with water. No decorations or gravel or fish, but I set up the filter to test it over night. I has a video.

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Stand update! I cleaned it up a bit.

Stand with all the moss



Stand w/o the moss



Stand in a normal view cleaned up

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Update: I found a small leak in the tank near the base. And I mean really small. I am going to do some research on how to seal it properly and then go to petsmart tomorrow and ask some advice and see if the advice matches.

I am also hoping for a 20 gal tank for xmas too, so we will see how well I can fix the leak.

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The only recommended fix should be a re-seal, which means removal and re-seal of glass pane that is leaking.

I think I am going to sell the tank and the stand (and keep the filter and deco), after reading up on cracks (there is one that was sealed by the previous owner) I don't feel comfortable with the tank. Maybe I can get my $30 bucks back, who knows. Then I will get a new 10 gallon that I have been looking at as a possible replacement Top Fin® 10 Gallon Aquarium Hood Combo - Gift Shop - Fish - PetSmart

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