Having asked a few questions lately thought I would let you know what I am hoping to do.
As you probably know I have two tanks, one is empty and now clean and ready to ready. The other has some fish in, neons and pencils mainly. The plan is to get the empty tank up and running, plant it up, transfer the filter media to the new filter and then transfer the fish over. Then after a week or so, depending on readings will get the other tank ready to the other new filter and transfer the original mature media over to the other new filter and then slowly add fish.
Tank one will definitely stay tropical but will have tropica soil and be planted. Tank two is most likely going to have guppies and platys in if the JBL Aquadur does the trick in raising my Dh. If it doesn't then might go temperate or just have another tropical tank. It will have the same soil and will also be planted.
Going to use Oase internal filters as they are corner ones with built in heater, so hopefully will look better. I am probably going to update the lights in both tanks as well. Found one solution for changing the lights to LED. Seeing if there is any other way as seems quite a few different LED's on line but of course with my tank lid I am probably rather restricted unless I can find a cover of some sort. Any ideas would be welcome.
Will try and keep things updated as I go, probably more question too.
Dave