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bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 Now something offtrack a bit :-? I have been working on making a hood and stand for a 3ft tank I bought off cheaply on trade me.. was to house my Red Empresses. Plus 13 other Fryeri's This is what i had to begin with, its one of those old tanks with notbracing on the top. It has a glass lid with one of those removable thingys for the sides to hold the glass lids that came with it. Dcided not to use those as they are very flimsy. But it seems rigid enough. Since it had been running for years. In the beginning: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 In the process (well after the work is done :oops: ): and the old stand (used as my work bench now :lol:): Apologies I didn't take any final product pictures. Its just painted matt black, and also made a lid and painted it black. Because it did not have the usual bracings you would see on newer aquariums nowadays, I have opted to use acrylic pieces, cut to size and screwed from the bottom inner of the lid. WItha custom made feeding door thingy, combined with a spare suction cap I had lying around. Looks like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 As for filtration, I have gotten myself a AquaOne CF1200 (Thanks John @ Organisms): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 And here they are at their temporary apartment while waiting for their condo to be made.. : Some of the fryeri's are here on the left bright tank. The right one was a tank I had to babysit while the owner went away for 3 months.. And here are the Empresses in with some fryeri's: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 And here is the end product once I got everything running and cycled (took a while): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 And another random pic :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 Oh and excuse the algae problem :oops: Being treated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilknieval69 Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 WHOA..... :lol: Nice pics, woulda taken a little while to upload them all lol. Tanks are looking nice (nice for cichlid tanks anyway *BLEH*) jks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 And a new addition.. she was lost, so I tried looking for its owner, and put flyer's everywhere.. no response. SO i left her outside the house for 2 weeks hoping she would go home. Never did.. and really pitied it.. so now she's just taking care of the house. and company when watching fishes. Adorable.. She loves the aquarium.. just sits or lie as she is now and watch the aquarium.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 WHOA..... :lol: Nice pics, woulda taken a little while to upload them all lol. Tanks are looking nice (nice for cichlid tanks anyway *BLEH*) jks Thanks..*BLEH* haha they took a while plus I needed to resize them. Just a matter of getting off my ar*e to upload them.. and making sure I didn't put in the wrong links for the pics :lol:. Plus Photobucket seems to take ages to load their pages and my album's, but when it comes to uploading them, its not too bad.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 Oh yeah i forgot to mention, I scored these the other day.. new bulbs.. I just need to get the starters/light units for them Yes you saw that right.. $5 each.. 4ft ones Brand new as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my4age Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 nice 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Btw, for those wondering.. Pic Update page 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 you'd better breed those red empress 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Glad you said boi as I had missed page 6 :lol: Looking good 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 you'd better breed those red empress 8) that will be a mission They still juveniles but slowly changing colours Glad you said boi as I had missed page 6 :lol: Looking good 8) Yeah, I just realised after I posted the pics that I took the whole page 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Yeah ditto on the empresses Theres alot of people hanging out to get some of them. Tank looks awesome too and it will only get better as the fish colour up more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelz Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Hi bOi. I'm running a fx5 on my 800 ltr malawi tank (plus a internal of 2000 lph) and its fantastic. Water changes are super fast and the tanks crystal clear and as for noise, theres none. You can get them for under $500, just shop around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelz Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 ooops. For some strange reason I never got past page one till I had already submitted this post :oops: You wont regret getting this filter tho! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Just our of curiosity, how much are people willing to pay for the red empresses? How much for each? Then how much for 6? etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sub.z Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Tank looks great boi The tank with the white stones and a brick in it, can i ask what sort of plant you have in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOi Posted June 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2007 Tank looks great boi The tank with the white stones and a brick in it, can i ask what sort of plant you have in it? Thanks. That was a Java Fern thatIi got from animates. buy 1 free 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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