Before and after

This freshwater cylinder was one of two aquariums in an orthodontist office in the Katy, Texas area. They called me out there to asses the situation and bid on the maintenance and boy was it a mess. It always gives me mixed emotions to see such terrible aquarium work being done by someone who labels themselves as a professional. Happy that this is what most of my competition looks like and sad that someone let things get this far. As you can see, this is a cylindrical aquarium. It is drilled in the bottom in two spots in order to be the intake and return for an Eheim 2262 canister filter which sits underneath. As it is a goldfish system and goldfish are temperate animals, it does not run a heater. Starting off, you can see that there was an algae bloom in the water itself. Part of the problem was the light timer had been set to “outlet on” and was running 24/7. I still run into people who think it’s ok to run a light above an aquarium 24/7. It isn’t of course. I think it was an accident in this case. I turned the light off completely for two weeks and added an algaecide. After that it was just a huge water change next visit and it turned the corner. I also sold them new plastic plants and redid the internal decoration. One month after I took it over, it looked like this below, on the right of course. I put them side by side for a good before and after comparison

It’s just a matter of doing right by a client. This aquarium is installed in a public place and needs to look as clean as possible in-between visits. Whether it is a large and complicated reef aquarium or a more modest goldfish cylinder, I believe you have to respect when people are paying you to do something. Respect them and respect yourself. Do every job to the best of your abilities; then no one will complain and they will actually be happy to pay you.

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