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coolest fish tank ever
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Re: explane how this works [Re: nonwo]
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Re: explane how this works [Re: nonwo]
#9072996 - 10/13/08 08:23 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gravity man. Its just like the auto dog-waterers, where you screw the two liter bottle into the bowl, and when the water gets low, it refills. Im stoned by the way, sorry if my explanation sucks.
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Re: explane how this works [Re: nonwo]
#9072997 - 10/13/08 08:23 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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the same way if u fill up a cup of water underwater, then u can lift the cup upside-down still filled with water above the surface of water this is due to surface tension
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Re: explane how this works [Re: Coaster]
#9073002 - 10/13/08 08:24 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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i want one
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Re: explane how this works [Re: nonwo]
#9073008 - 10/13/08 08:25 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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You could probably build one. I may do just that after watching this video. Pretty neat
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Re: explane how this works [Re: satyr]
#9073015 - 10/13/08 08:26 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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its mega cool i bet that fish tank would get u pussy
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Re: explane how this works [Re: nonwo]
#9073053 - 10/13/08 08:31 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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If not, this one would
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Re: explane how this works [Re: SubGen1us]
#9073069 - 10/13/08 08:33 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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You may have to hire a chimney sweeper
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Re: explane how this works [Re: SubGen1us]
#9073080 - 10/13/08 08:35 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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SubGen1us said: I'm running about 20 aquariums right now and I can't even imagine how hard it would be to clean that son of a bitch.
I'm definetly going to build one!
dam wtf 20 r u a breeder or something
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: nonwo]
#9073114 - 10/13/08 08:41 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I disagree with it being the coolest fish tank ever. It's creative but god damn their fish selection is awful.
My idea of coolest tank evar would be something like this:
http://www.bigalsaquariumstores.com/imgs/tour/shark_lg.jpg http://www.bigalsaquariumstores.com/imgs/tour/deep_2_lg.jpg
The big round one, obviously.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9073154 - 10/13/08 08:47 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Gumby said: I disagree with it being the coolest fish tank ever. It's creative but god damn their fish selection is awful.
My idea of coolest tank evar would be something like this:
http://www.bigalsaquariumstores.com/imgs/tour/shark_lg.jpg http://www.bigalsaquariumstores.com/imgs/tour/deep_2_lg.jpg
The big round one, obviously.
I have a friend that works there and I regular there somewhat. It's not a big al's but it's modeled the same exact way to the framing around the aquarium
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9073201 - 10/13/08 08:59 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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you own pirahna ever?
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: SubGen1us]
#9073294 - 10/13/08 09:16 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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black piranha, those were king size pirahna right
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: SubGen1us]
#9073322 - 10/13/08 09:24 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I want to try keeping the black rhombeus, but a huge one, like 8+ inches. I also think an elongatus would be bad ass.
http://www.amazon-exotic-import.de/Gallerie/Piranha/Bilder/Serrasalmus%20rhombeus%20Guama_1.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/2288235371_ae03ce193e.jpg?v=0
Black Piranhas get close to 2 feet. A 15+ incher could take of a few fingers with one bite. Scary thought.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9073335 - 10/13/08 09:27 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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would a pack of the small pirahnas be able to tear up a pinky mouse?
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
#9073370 - 10/13/08 09:35 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Funny you should ask... I fed my piranhas a mouse one time. 9 piranhas made it disappear in 10 seconds.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9073382 - 10/13/08 09:38 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sounds like those guys arent so boring when they are being fed  But then again, feeding my snake was fun for a while, then just becomes routine
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: satyr]
#9073411 - 10/13/08 09:41 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Exactly, seeing the piranhas eat was only fun for the first few months. Other than that they just hide out under decorations all day. Very timid fish. I like fish that go out during the day and explore around their tank.. like puffers.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9073438 - 10/13/08 09:47 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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That is a cool tank, but to be the COOLEST it would have to be saltwater!
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: AKSE]
#9073453 - 10/13/08 09:49 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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And most expensive
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: nonwo]
#9073466 - 10/13/08 09:51 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I miss my tank. I told the wife that if we ever build our own house I'm gonna put a nice built-in somewhere. I'll try to come up with something unique like this....
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9073612 - 10/13/08 10:17 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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that was cool, pirahnas that size go for 50 bucks each right?
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
#9074183 - 10/14/08 12:01 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Depends on the species really. The standard red bellies are pretty cheap but the caribes(ones with black "ears") are more expensive.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9074353 - 10/14/08 12:48 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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I saw some for 14.99 but they were pretty small. I wonder if they are a smaller genus and won't grow bigger.
the king size were 49.99
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
#9075135 - 10/14/08 08:58 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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my beta fish is 3 years old and dieing
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: nonwo]
#9076468 - 10/14/08 02:43 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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how do you have better ratings than me?
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
#9076476 - 10/14/08 02:46 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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saying nice things insteed of correcting every minor detale and calling ppl crazy?
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: nonwo]
#9076483 - 10/14/08 02:47 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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you're crazy
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
#9076486 - 10/14/08 02:48 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
#9076494 - 10/14/08 02:49 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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They were probably the typical Red Belly Piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri. Silver dollar sized ones tend to go anywhere from $5-$15... But they're so god damn boring I don't know why you'd want to waste your time.
Here's a list of species from website that I've ordered from before. Only piranhas from the genus Pygocentrus can be kept together. Serrasalmus tend to kill each other and anything else in the tank that they can catch. Serrasalmus also tend to be very slow growers and somewhat more difficult to keep... But most of the cool piranhas are Serrasalmus, IMO. http://www.aquascapeonline.com/prodList.asp?item=Piranhas&idCategory=22
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9076512 - 10/14/08 02:55 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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hoooly fuckin' shit, there are quite a few species...
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9076515 - 10/14/08 02:56 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Red Bellies dont grow to be big do they?
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: RickJames]
#9076523 - 10/14/08 02:58 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Most nattereri grow to 8-10 inches. You'd need at least a 55 gal tank for full grown ones, a 75 gal would be better.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9077310 - 10/14/08 05:46 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Has anyone here had a saltwater tank? When I was 13/14 I had a reef setup. I really love them but that shit is so expensive/time consuming/stressful. Even more so than a drug habit.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: nonwo]
#9077792 - 10/14/08 07:07 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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the most incredible custom I'd ever seen was at a home I delivered furniture to with a friend, the guy had 3 tanks connected with clear pipes that ran around the room
I've got a pic of it somewhere, if I run across it I'll post it
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Prisoner#1]
#9077816 - 10/14/08 07:11 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Prisoner#1]
#9078985 - 10/14/08 10:29 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Holy Christ that's a lot of custom acrylic work. I don't even want to imagine how much that cost the guy. I've done my fair share of building acrylic tanks and that shit isn't easy or safe (acrylic dust causes cancer).
If you saw that tank in GA, chances are I know who did it. The people in the fish "industry" all know each other.
peterluber: As far as keeping saltwater goes, I've had about 4 tanks. I would have had more but as you said, shit is retardedly expensive. Live rock is what gets you. I think in the Atlanta area it's up to about $7-$9 per pound for qualiy Fiji rock. You can't even get Tonga Branch anymore.
When you consider that in a reef tank you want almost 1 pound of rock per gallon of water, the cost gets astronomical. Then you have to factor in the costs of high intensity lighting and complex filter systems (plenums, refugiums, skimmers, sumps, calcium reactors, etc) and it ends up being one of those things only the rich can afford.
Then again, if I'm keeping a saltwater tank, I just can't do a fish only system. If I'm gonna invest the money, I'm going balls to the wall and do a reef tank.
That said, my mom has a nice 8 gallon nano reef that I taught her how to take care of it. She actually does a better job with it than I ever would (she's more dedicated).
Here's a pic:

Unfortunately that's the only pic I have. I'll get a full picture of the tank next time I'm home. It should look pretty freakin awesome because I got my mom some Xenia coral and neon green star polyps last time I was home in August.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9079636 - 10/15/08 01:34 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Nice nano. Yeah, live rock is expensive. I live in San Diego so I paid considerably less for mine, IIRC ~$3-4/lb. And yes, I totally agree, you just can't not have a reef if you're going saltwater.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: peterluber]
#9079662 - 10/15/08 01:44 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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You guys on the west coast have it good as far as saltwater goes. I used to work for a company outside of Atlanta that imported coral and fish from Asia. Because of the layover and customs in LA, the delay was so hardcore that we'd lose up to 40% of our orders. We eventually stopped getting fish, coral did better being in the box for up to 72 hours.
If I ever move to the west coast I will have an insane reef tank. For some reason they can get just about anything you want in Cali, regardless of law.
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Re: coolest fish tank ever [Re: Gumby]
#9079686 - 10/15/08 02:05 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes, it seems that we can. I haven't had a tank for a few years, but someday if I have the time/patience/money I'd love to have another reef.
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Re: explane how this works [Re: Coaster]
#9079698 - 10/15/08 02:14 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Coaster said: the same way if u fill up a cup of water underwater, then u can lift the cup upside-down still filled with water above the surface of water this is due to surface tension
Same concept, but neither are due to surface tension.
You can think of it in this way. Liquid water is almost negligibly compressible. Atmospheric pressure is pushing down on all of the water around the column (cup). Because the cup is sealed, the water inside of it has no pressure baring down on it, instead. It forms a suction, if you were to poke a hole in the top of your cup, the column of water would fall back into the tub as atmospheric pressures filled the space above the water with air. The seal is key.
If you broke the seal on the top of one of those fish tanks, you'd have fish all over your living room. Seeing how they pump air into the column is a little baffling, all i can think of is that there is a device that pumps the air out of the column as they feed it in. If this wasn't the case, the water level would drop as those air bubbles collect at the top
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