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September 14th, 2007
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
sounds like a plan haha. you will beable to do a few of them then and maybe power your own house hahaha.
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September 14th, 2007
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
Here is the final, final, FINAL layout, (I hope!)
The specs are pretty cool for the space I have available and it will allow me to have 1,600 gallons of water in an area just 11' x 8'!
It won't need a lot of heating, but may need cooling during the summer.
Last edited by timg; September 14th, 2007 at 03:26 PM.
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September 15th, 2007
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Fish Keeper
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
sounds good to me.
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September 17th, 2007
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Fish Addict
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
That looks like it'll work.  |
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September 18th, 2007
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
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September 19th, 2007
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Fish Keeper
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
The biggest step I have to take in the building and commissioning of the new fish house is a leap into the unknown, both in filtering techniques and the use of UVC to combat pathogens. I am going to install the UVC because of the intended use of the racks and the sheer capacity of the system. A major infection in one rack could potentially wipe out one third of our stocks! I have been researching the advances in this method of disease control and the results are very encouraging, so much so that I am convinced that this is the right way to go. Of course, it will be a DIY version, purely to cater for my setup, which is a one-off, as they always are!
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September 19th, 2007
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Fish Keeper
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
will you have a protien skimmer also? or somthing like that? good luck with your bio wheel im sure if you go to a LPS and see if they can buy one for you and you just buy it from them... that would be vary cool to buy and have one there set up is vary easy.
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September 20th, 2007
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Re: The fish house: Comments please!
Have you considered Ozone for sterilization? You would have to use special ozone safe plastics - the draw back- but also work really well, you would need a carbon filter after, before the water returns to your tank. This is what the Sea Life Center here in AK uses before they return sea water from their tanks to the ocean.
Also I found good ideas for filters at Drs Foster / Smith for Ponds....high capacity and lower cost. Click on the following -
Pond Filters: Fish Pond Filters, Accessories and Pond Skimmers
Last edited by susitna-flower; September 20th, 2007 at 07:29 PM.
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October 6th, 2007
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Fish Keeper
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how is the fish house going? any updates or pics?
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October 6th, 2007
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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October 7th, 2007
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Fish Keeper
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 oh no!
...where's aquaman when you need him?  |
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October 7th, 2007
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How about working hard on the new fish house!
Yes folks, it is progressing, not nearly as quickly as I hoped, but progressing, all the same.
Today I started to assemble the tanks. Here are some pictures! (I know this is what you're all waiting for!)
The dividers are glass instead of Polycarb, as I was given a load of old window glass FOC, and not being one to turn down a good offer! I made a water passage through the glass apnel by putting glass packers in between two panels, leaving a gap at the bottom ne side and a gap at the top on the other side. A mesh screen will stop any fry movements between sections. As the gless is not as long as I had planned, a small change to the plans gives me 3 x 36" x 24" x 13" tanks per shelf, each one divided into three sections. Each tank is 48G, so there will be 48x3x4=576G + sump per rack. There will be 36 compartments per rack. Reasonable capacity, I think.
Last edited by timg; October 7th, 2007 at 10:13 AM.
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October 7th, 2007
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BTW, the aliens haven't taken me away, nor have the fish rebelled, just produced again! I have gained another 100+ mollies this week, yet more angels, more guppies, and the bettas are growing well!
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October 7th, 2007
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Fish Keeper
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WOW! looks like everything is going great
keep up the good work
Have you posted pics of the new babies?
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October 7th, 2007
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Not had chance to get the pics yet! (Just found a load more angel eggs too!)
Life is never boring!
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October 7th, 2007
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Fish Keeper
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sounds like your're having the time of your life with all those babies
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October 7th, 2007
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They are certainly keeping me busy! Oh, BTW, another load of angel aggs found this evening! Two of the three pairs have laid today.
That's 800 eggs today, with the third pair getting ready now. The new tanks will be water tested tomorrow, while I make the next one or two. The pumps should arrive sometime this week, but as they are coming by postal carrier, I'm not sure whether they will be affected by our postal strike that we are in the middle of!
Just as a matter of interest, the tanks take about an hour to make, and about 30 minutes to cut the glass for them. Each one takes 1 1/2 tubes of silicon, making the total cost per tank of 3 pounds sterling! Not bad for a 48 gallon tank!
The racking is going to be built this week too, so hopefully they should be in place by the end of the week, ready for commissioning. I hope so, because the fry are really stacking up, with around 800+ in progress now. Nearly every tank in my living room contains fry at various stages of growth, which is far from ideal and is overloading the system badly. Even the 8' has one small guy swimming among the big fish!
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