jakel2k

Update: So about 2 weeks ago I got rid of the tank. I already have two tanks set up and don't have the room. I'm also planning on getting a bigger tank in the next few months. I sold it at a yard sale and I feel good about it going for $20 to a kids for a lizard tank. Better going to good use rather than collect dust in the basement.

MDF board would be a bad idea. I've looked into this several months ago and you should really use plywood and not the partical board nor chip wood boards. With the moisture and the possible spills and leaks would weaken the board. Not something I would want to mess with. Even if you paint the board or water seal the board I'd still go with real plywood.

Ahem, how do you know this? That's odd since some scorching days I'm sure the hose gets really hot, especially the black ones. For them to split when hot water is ran through them seems odd to me.

I think the reasoning is that if the hose is left outside things might get into the hose that could hurt your tank, (namely bad bacteria, debris and bugs.) I think if you run hot water through the hose first you should be okay.

Okay so after letting this sit for a few months I'm considering trying to patch the broken part up with another piece of glass. So what can I use for glass? Would glass from a picture frame work? I could probably get that pretty cheap and already cut to the size I'd need. What about the trim? The bottom trim is cracked. So should I swap the good top trim and the cracked bottom trim so that the crack is not the top? Is the trim even required? I don't mind spending time on this since I am getting to learn something out of it. But I'm not willing to take a chance that a pane will shatter when it's in the living room and my toddler is sitting near it.

How much did the sheet cost if you don't mind me asking? I've been wanting to build an 90G acrylic tank but hte cost of the acrylic was almost twice the cost of buying the glass tank.

:bang1: :chair: :bang1: Due to the possibility of being laughed at, I'm not saying where I got some fish from. I'll just say it starts with a W.

The fish seem better. No more casulaties since that night. I baught some clout and hope this doesn't happen again. Too bad, that was one of my better looking fish.

I am feeding them some Wardley Goldfish Flakes (mainly for the danios) and a few Nutrafin basix floating Cichlid pellets. When I got the 2 Kenyi two months ago I had little issue and the Kenyi were eating fine. I then go 3 Electric Yellows a few weeks later. They didn't seem to eat as well and usually only at the flakes, (I assumed this was because the Kenyi was more aggressive so they didn't want to expose them selves as much). I did notice them spitting the food but I figured this was normal behavior since I had many fresh water fish do the same thing to break down the food. The first to die was a Kenyi, this one was always hiding and figured that this was due to the other kenyi being the more dominate one. Didn't think much of it since all the other fish seemed quite healthy. So I then found my other seeming healthy Kenyi getting fatter and figured that she wqas being a piggy. I found her dead later on. The Yellow that died didn't have as noticable bloated belly but was hiding more during the final days. The Fish are about 1.5 - 2" in length and are juvies. After the first Kenyi died I add some salt to help lower the stress levels of the tank, (just in case.) That was over a week ago. I checked the parametres then and all seemed well except the KH and GH was really high. I did a 20% water change then also.

Unfortunatly I can't leave the house tonight and have to get up for work tommorrow so I can't treat the tank until after work tommorrow. I also don't have a spare tank and might have to treat the tank as a whole. These are my first cichlids so please let me know if I'm doing anything obviously wrong.

I've added aqaurium salt that I had available. I have two spong filters in there that was cleaned with the water change. I'm in Calgary and the tank is a 25G tall tank. I'm really hoping I won't have any more deaths.

I came home today after work to see my Blue Kenyi with a fat tummy and dead on the bottom. Since had to drive my wife to work I could deal with it then so I removed the fish and drove my wife to work. When I got home I found one of my Yellows was now very inactive and died minutes later. What to do?!? All stores are closed and I've done a 25% water change. Doing research as we speak... any help would be appreciated.

:bang1: :bang1: :bang1: :bang1: :bang1: It seems I'm getting a lot of other confirmation that this is likely a Kenyi. So the question is what should I do with her? I'm thinking taking her back to Walmart might be the best option but I don't think I still have the receipt, (it was over a month ago so I think my wife might have chucked it.) I'm warry of keeping her since I only have her in a 25G. I'm planning on getting a bigger tank in the next few months and wish to stick with the Yellows since I love the colour. I might keep her until she gets too aggressive and then give her away... maybe trade her in some place and meanwhile get something more tame. Maybe some rusties or some Julies. More research

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I got a Cobalt Blue a little over a month ago from Walmart comparing with what I've seen all the Cobalt Blues I've seen online do not have vertical stripes. Is this in fact a Cobalt Blue or did I get hosed? Let's try that again... sorry for the flooding.

Awesome tank and almost exactly want I was looking for. I'm currently only doing research on this type of tank and wasn't planning on doing one for a month or two yet. If the tank is still available at that time, then I think you have a buyer.

10G or 20G. This is still just and idea that I'm am considering more out of curiousity than anything else.

I've recently had an interest in starting a shellie tank. The ability to have such an intersting fish in a small tank is facinating. I was thinking Brevis or Multis. My question is where can I get some good sized shells? I haven't seen for escargot shells yet at safeway and was wondering where I can find some. I could always go with the pipe elbows or pots from home depot but that is not as natural and the shellies might not spawn as well in these conditions. Also what other school of fish would do good with these? I'm stuck between a single species or multi species tank.

Which one did you buy? albertaaquatica.com or albertaaquatica.ca? In either case can a link be put on the site to either redirect to the forum? This is also very easy to do. What is the status of migrating the site over?

Just curious, what size of tank were the mothers in when they breed? Are you planning to sell, keep or give away the batch?

I can see that happening but usually in those cases the cost in DIY projets is at least comparable with the in store one, (factoring out the man hour cost of course.) I've done several DYI projects like several tank stands, canopies, filters as well as not aqua related projects and the cost of the raw material range from 0% to at MOST 75% - 80% of the cost of the in store finished product. Over 30% more for the raw material than the retail value of the finished product is somehow very wrong IMHO. Somehow I feel that the glass / acrylic retailers are trying to bend me over or the LFS makes little or no profit from selling similar tanks.

That's funny, I just went to Gold's for the first time today. Very impressive selection of fish. I'll have to call them about it. I'm quite suprised that getting the raw materials for a tank is more costly than the the tank itself. How does that work??? My plans on a tank building project went from reading up on acrylic, getting stunned by the price of a sheet of acrylic, reading up on glass, getting stunned by the price of cut glass. :boom: Oh well at least I'm supporting my LFS. :ml:

I like the idea of going to a glass shop and building a NEW 33G for $40. Is there a specific type of glass I should ask for? Anyone know of a good place to get the glass cheap? :thumbs: :beer: I did look into building an acrylic tank but the prices are crazy. $360 for a 4'x8' sheet of 1/2", (enough to build a 90G but a 90G from Big Al's is $260). Working with glass kinda scares me. Do I need to buy some trim to enforce the tank? I was told that trim is the main thing keeping the tank from ripping at the seams. Damn I might even go bigger and better if prices are cheap enough. -07- Off to do some research on how to build a glass tank.

Inside or outside the tank? The crack is actually right on the corner where the trim is. I'm thinking I'd have to replace the pane. Is there a place I can get a replacement pane? How about getting a used damaged tank for parts?

I have a 30G with a crack on the corner of the front pane and it seems that the trip is also cracked. I asked the staff at Big Al's and they said it wasn't worth fixing. I have no idea what to do with the thing and I don't want it to go to waste. Ideas?