I purchased a new 40 gallon (3ft) aquarium today.  I’m planning to set it up as a community tank, but not until after I move house.

I popped past the Tender Centre this morning to see what they had.  I ended up placing the following bids:

• RJays motorcycle jacket $20.00
• 3ft aquarium with black stand $30.00
• 2.5ft aquarium with accessories $15.00
• Small fridge (desktop size) $10.00

Hopefully I’ll get the aquariums and the bike jacket.  The fridge would be cool, but completly unnecessary.

When I got home today (Thursday) I discovered that Fastway Couriers had left the Hailea chiller on my doorstep.

I’m very impressed with the quick delivery of this item, but I am extremely unhappy with the fact that Fastway has left the chiller sitting on the doorstep where anyone could have taken it.  Why was a delivery note not left so I could collect the chiller from their distribution centre as all other courier companies do?

Well I’ve just bought 2 aquarium chillers on eBay.

One chiller is for the new 38 gallon hex tank I am awaiting delivery of.  This chiller is a Hailea HC-100A and cost me $323.00 plus $30.00 freight.

I also purchased a Unistar 85 heater/chiller for my 5 gallon betta tank.  This cost me $299.00 plus $20.00 freight.

Finally I purchased a small pump to circulate water through the Unistar heater/chiller.  This cost me $6.50 plus $11.00 freight.

How pissed off am I?

I was just looking through eBay for any aquarium equipment that is located near me and I found a heap of glass listed.  The thing that shits me about this is that it is cheap and close to me, but I have nowhere to store it until I move house.

So, you’re no doubt wondering why this is shitting me…  Well it’s simple really, I want to get hold of some cheap glass so I can practice glass cutting and drilling and hopefully start building some fish tanks; it seems to me that it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to make my own tanks than to buy them at a shop.

Oh well, I guess I’ll miss out on this lot of glass, but if anyone is interested in purchasing some random bits of glass and you can pick it up from the Lismore area, check out eBay auction number 290261574954 (it ends at 16:23:51 on 28th September 2008).