Two bargains, one day.

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 22 Nov 2007, 17:00

Check it out, this new tank for my dividing wall between my Kitchen and living room.

4flong x2ft wide by 18" high 10mm glass drilled for a sump £100
Arcadia T5 lighting unit £50
Filters already running and heaters thrown in for nowt.

I'm chuffed to bits.
Matt

Bas Pels · Post by **Bas Pels** » 22 Nov 2007, 19:08

A good day indeed. I like your rocks, BTW

Kostas · Post by **Kostas** » 23 Nov 2007, 11:06

Surely an awesome day Matt

Congratulations!

What are you planning to keep in there?

By the way,I too am jealous of your rocks you know...

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » 23 Nov 2007, 11:08

Hillstream loaches will look nice there.

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 23 Nov 2007, 16:27

They are fab rocks, they have been pinched from this castle.....

Not really, they were deposited by glaciers in the last ice age. The castle is made from the same as is my house which really is made from stones pinched from the castle, about 200 years ago.
A guy down the road has one in a plie in his garden that he dug up whilst digging the foundations for his house which is considerably bigger and would be fab in my biggest tank, I'm just working on an idea of how to get it from his garden and into my tank. It is really heavy.
The biggest stone that you can see in this tank is a real eye popper to put in there.
Matt

snowball · Post by **snowball** » 24 Nov 2007, 11:38

nice. you seem to have a good collection of submerged rocks

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 26 Nov 2007, 10:00

Hill stream loaches would indeed look good in there but no I think I may be keeping Hypancistruss Zebra.
Matt

Seedy · Post by **Seedy** » 26 Nov 2007, 19:06

Nice. I love the history in the rocks (those "borrowed" from the castle) sound like you live in a rather historical home (or maybe us Yanks just think anything over 100 years old is historical

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MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 26 Nov 2007, 20:30

Seedy wrote:Nice. I love the history in the rocks (those "borrowed" from the castle) sound like you live in a rather historical home (or maybe us Yanks just think anything over 100 years old is historical )

A bit of both, maybe. Here in England, you usually don't have to travel very far to find a "many hundred years old" building [or the remains thereof]. The native Americans being mainly nomadic didn't leave quite as much behind.

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Mats

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 27 Nov 2007, 22:39

I have decided to go with chaetostoma after being inspired by Shanes/Jools writings on these funny little fellas and this picture.

Which I found on a website about chaetostomas natural habitat.
I also have corydoras Zygatus and an endless supply of endlers livebearers no pun intended.
I have four of (hopefully) the bigger rubbernoses in there which I have been collecting from tanks of random fish for a good while now.
They seem to love it in there they are out and about all the time.
And cheaper than zebras too.

Matt