Last year, I ordered an aquarium thru a friend who went to China… I guess he went there for business trip. Buying stuff from China can save you some money… not little but a lot sometimes… probably you only have to pay a third of what you have to pay here.

After a couple of months, the aquarium arrived, but I did not pick it right away, so it was kept in their store until last week. I wanted to collect it a few times, but most of the time our timing was not right… furthermore the aquarium is quite big… a three feet aquarium, which needed a bigger transport like a van.

At last I manage to bring it home last week. I was looking forward to assemble the aquarium… it came with a cabinet which need to be assemble. It’s quite easy to assemble the cabinet… I did the same with my previous aquarium. The cabinet is a DIY kind of design… you won’t make mistake coz all are measured to fit accordingly. My nephews were eager to help to assemble the aquarium and I told them we are going to do it on Saturday… which was yesterday.

Early morning of Saturday, they already calling me about the aquarium… at first I was lazy to do it and was planning to go to the gym that morning. But since they were eager to help, I decided to do it. I text my friend to inform that I’m not going to the gym that morning…

So, my two nephews helped me to remove the aquarium box. There are two boxes… one holding the cabinet and another holding the aquarium. The cabinet box is very heavy… the cabinet’s woods must be very strong, that’s why it’s heavy. The aquarium box is lighter…

We started with the aquarium box coz we want to see the aquarium before we start assembling the cabinet. Removing the aquarium box was quite easy…first remove the wood cage… then tear the paper box… after tearing and removing some of the paper box… the shocking sight appears!… OH NO!!!… The aquarium is broken!!! At many parts…

Oh craps… waited for it for so long, and now we can’t use it at all… if it was purchased with kmart promotions for the whole family from the local aquarium mart, then I won’t be so disappointed coz I’m sure I can ask for a replacement… but this is a one off purchase from thousands miles away mart… 🙁

I can’t do much… we can’t do anything… so we pack it back… donno what I’m going to do with it… if there is acrylic aquarium maker around, I might be able to ask them to build one with the same design so that I can use back the frame and cabinet… or if anyone know if it possible to fix an acrylic aquarium or know a place I can fix it here, please let me know… I will appreciate it very much…

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