Ciano Aquarium

Hi Guys,
How are you all? Sorry I've not been around, but have missed all you mad buggers

I have the offer of a Ciano Emotions 100 aquarium....has anyone any experience of these tanks? If so, what do you think please?
Thanks

Thanks Sue. Good to see you're still here
I should have known you would be the first to offer help....and to have researched the tank for me.
I couldn't find out much and also thought they didn't give much info.

When you say check whether it's well made, what should I look for? The lady who has the tank says it has an internal filter but that she has an external one too. I didn't see the info about it only being a sponge....will that be a problem or should I change the filter? If so, what one would you recommend?
Thanks Sue for your help.

Thanks Sue. I forgot to say, whilst the cabinet is available, I won't be getting it as I just don't have any room for it. Hard to describe, but we have a sort of dwarf, brick built seating area where my current tank sits, and where I will site this one if I decide to get it. I'll have to try and find out if the tank needs to sit on some sort of base, or whether it can sit on it's own frame....a bit like the Rio juwel ones do (I think?)
So I guess I will have to go with an internal filter as there won't be a cabinet to site an external in?

You just need to check whether it is flat bottomed (the whole bottom glass touching the surface) or a floating base like the Rio. You can buy base mats made of a sort of foam or use polystyrene tiles/sheets for flat bottomed tanks. My 180 litre came with a sheet of inch thick black polystyrene so that sort of thing does exist.
But even with a floating base, the thing it is on does need to be reasonably smooth.

Have a look at the internal it comes with and use your judgement. The manual is just too useless to say for sure. Both those filters I mentioned would be good, long lasting replacements if you feel the current one is not enough.

Is this tank instead of or as well as the existing one? 

Hi Sue,

Thank you for those tips, it is fairly smooth being tiled, but I will look out for the thick polystyrene.

I was thinking of keeping my current tank going, at least while I introduce my new fish so I can quarantine them. I would hate to lose any of my original fish by introducing some disease or other. On that subject, how long should I quarantine for?
My son wants us to use the old tank for a puffer fish though, and whilst I love them I'm not sure about that.
Our other son and his family are moving here in the next 3-4 months, so he has just had to sell his beloved marine set up. It was a HUGE tank with some really beautiful fish and anemones etc so he is more than a bit sad about that, but moving it to France was just a logistical nightmare! Several of his fish he has had for 12 years since he first had a marine tank and were really big. He was offered a completely insulting price for them from the place he has always bought from.
At least though, I will have a fellow fish fan here

Ok...so here's the update. First the good news. Yesterday we drove to Toulouse to look at the Ciano tank, it looked lovely and I duly did Sues checks. So, am now the proud owner of a 175 litre tank.  She offered me some co2 stuff too but since I've only read a bit about that I decided to pass on that.
Anyway, put my lovely new tank in the back of our sprinter van with a multitude of padding, cushions, blankets etc......the tank that is, not the van and set off.
Now the bad news.....my tank is still somewhere in Toulouse, because the stupid van broke down and had to be low loaded away!
The insurance breakdown covers us for a taxi home, (which is just as well as the cab fare was 285 euros by the time we got home ) but we had no idea if the car they would send would be big enough for the tank and us with all our bits & bobs.....we also had our 5 year old grand-daughter with us....and she doesn't travel light! So had to leave the tank in the van after begging the breakdown guy to be very careful!
So if we can ever afford the ransom to get the van back out of the Mercedes garage it has gone to, I might be able to start putting together my new tank.rd
Today, we took my car to another garage as that has broken down, AND had to cancel a sold out f&c's night tonight as our delivery from the UK with all our fish...the cod sort..didn't arrive because of the chaos at Calais....second time in 3 weeks.
So there you are, another episode in lifes rich tapestry....maybe we'll win the euromillions tomorrow