New river tank underway (updated)

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Post by avant » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:15 pm

Mad Duff and Diana,

Thanks a lot for the information. It certainly clears up a lot of questions i have in my mind. I realise there's a lot of considerations involved in the whole setup.

I'll be shopping for the powerheads this weekend. Will show you all once my setup is done. :)
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Post by Mad Duff » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:07 am

Finally got fish into the river tank today Image

I moved some bogwood and plants out of the two river tanks that are getting stripped down.

And this is the almost end result, there are some more plants coming later this week

Firstly without powerheads on
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then powerheads got turned on
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I also took a couple of pictures of a couple of the new residents :D
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More photo's to follow soon :D
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Post by palaeodave » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:09 am

Ooooooooooooooooooo! :D
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Post by Jim Powers » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:12 am

very nice!!! :D
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Post by Martin Thoene » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:40 am

Before Graeme does, can I just say superb.....'cos it is.

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Post by Graeme Robson » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:49 am

Bah!...........

Yes, Mark! It looks marvelous! 8)
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Post by Emma Turner » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:54 am

Fantabulous! 8) I bet the hillies are loving it.

My lounge is currently in complete chaos (that is, more than is normal for my lounge) as we are moving the bookcase to squeeze in the new river tank. The manifold pipework was supposed to have been here by now, but we have been assured by Aquamedic it will be here Tues....

What are you planning on doing with the river tanks you've been stripping down? And here's the big question - where is the quartz? I can't see it!
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Post by Mad Duff » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:57 am

Thankyou :D

I am officially a "Happy Bunny" :D

One of the old river tanks is running as a quarantine tank for a while and the other one is going to be set up for Callum. the quarantine tank is for a batch of Kuhli's that I am picking up later this week, I have been assured that these are Pangio myersi and Golden Kuhli's :shock:

Once the new shed is built I will be moving 2x 20 gallon tanks and a 29 gallon tank into there so maybe a couple of small river tanks could be set up.

The Quartz is there Emma:
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Post by LoachOrgy » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:38 pm

wow, very cool mad duff. :D
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Post by Emma Turner » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:52 pm

I knew it would be in there somewhere! :wink:

And I hope you do manage to obtain some true Pangio myersi later in the week, they seem so hard to come by these days.

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Post by tariesindanrie » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:09 pm

Awesome!!!

My loaches are SO jealous!

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Post by Blue » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:28 pm

Fabulous!:D
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Post by chefkeith » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:33 am

That is one awesome looking river tank. Much better than a painting on the wall. That's a work of art there.
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Post by KhuliKhilla » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:53 am

this is painful to look at. i have the tank... i can in theory get a river tank set up at the end of the month come payday. BUT i must... Im moving house... i shouldnt

curse you all and your fantastic hillstream tanks that i cant have!

*sob*

p.s awesome tank
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Post by Mad Duff » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:16 am

Thankyou for all the great comments :D
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