Adopting a new aquarium

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The bad thing about acrylic tanks is that they are a pain to clean. You have to use a special acrylic cleaning pad or mag float and be willing to clean the tank every other day to keep the algae from building up. If you don't clean it fairly often the algae will build up and be next to impossible to scrub off.

Also throw out any used sand and buy new sand, or if you want to use the old sand bed rinse it very very very throughly before reusing it. During the move the old sand will get stirred up and release bad bacteria and nitrates into your system more then likely causing the whole system to crash and you'd end up loosing everything.

Canister filters or aquaclear filters are only good for running carbon in otherwise they just cause problems and become nitrate factories. To clean/filter the water in the tank you will need a skimmer.