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I really want too build a river tank. However the kind i want to build is like the video on youtube "river tank." It is a circular flow of water around a barrier in the middle.
Getting the powerheads will be easy but i guess my real question is what would be an aquaium safe material to use to build the barrier in the middle?
If you would like to see the video check out this video:
Also some other videos from the user are helpful for looing at the overall structure of the barrier.
Last edited by basebawla456; December 3rd, 2008 at 05:35 PM.
The one thing I'd like to suggest for your privacy is you should probably change your user name to something other than your e-mail.
This is a public and will can be viewable to the public and through search engines.
Thanks i really didn't mean to make it my email i just use everything with one username. Anyway I'm sorry my question wasn't that clear; but does anyone know what type of aquarium safe material i could use to make the barrier in the middle of this tank sut up (videoin my fiirst post)?
ok a quick question.
Is this barrier just like a pane of something down the middle of the tank? If so I suppose just a sheet of acrylic/glass would work. That way you would still be able to see everything happening on the otherside. And if you use glass you likely wouldn't even be able to see it inside...
Now you got me thinking of a new tank idea
I'm not entirely shure what the barrier is but the tank does have clown loaches which is why i wanted to build this in the first place. For my little loaches.
This is avideo to show behind and why i really don't want to use anythiing see-through but instead something more natural.
And this is the front. However, i don't need anything this hard to build.
Well yes the barrier could take away from the total capacity ov the tank, but in the video the barrier is hollow and provides shelter for the clown loaches
This is a video to show behind and why i really don't want to use anythiing see-through but instead something more natural.
I guess i may still not be understanding how the whole barrier idea works. The one reason that I suggested glass was that I thought it needed to be solid? a side bonus however is that you could still have it look natural (glass in water is pretty much invisible), by using aquarium sealent to attach stone and driftwood to it... wish I could explain what I'm thinking better.
Yep good stuff, I know him from http://forums.loaches.com/. He has tanks with water bridges going from tank to tank that his fish swim through. Click on the link under his sig and check out his fish room
carol
well idk how soon i'll get started but i'll definatley be planning. I don'tvthink i will make the little cove on the top but maybe some piping throught the structure and i really don't want to have to put all those roots in there. So i think i might carve out some large rocks with some cup shaped holes for tiny plants.
Thanks for the link now I understand how this thing works!
I wish you the best of luck with this. I might try it one day myself but not until I actually get a larger tank.
Im planning on trying it in my 65 gal with some yoyo loaches clown loaches. I recently just added some clown loaches into my current loach tank and they are so tiny. Only about 3/4 of an inch.
That sounds like it would be really neat. I'd love to have loaches however they're unforunatly not compatible with any of the tanks that I have setup. One day maybe. I wonder if there would be another way to get that flow without loosing so much tank volume the "island"... (now I'm seeing a tank within a tank...)
you gotta stop giving me idea's.
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