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Long narrow tanks tanks for interesting.... I have been thinking about doing a 8 to 10 foot tank that would be 12 inches deep front to back and 18 inches tall for a few Teleogramma brichardi. They are complete a-holes, but I like them.
 
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Is that acrylic? Piffle! It's like drilling a hole in a piece of plywood! :)

Wait until you drill your first glass tank. It doesn't matter how many you have done in the past; drilling into glass is always a sphincter-tightening proposition. :)

That tank already looks great, right after planting. It's going to be magnificent once that greenery settles in and starts to grow. :)
 
Is that acrylic? Piffle! It's like drilling a hole in a piece of plywood! :)

Wait until you drill your first glass tank. It doesn't matter how many you have done in the past; drilling into glass is always a sphincter-tightening proposition. :)

That tank already looks great, right after planting. It's going to be magnificent once that greenery settles in and starts to grow. :)
The drilled tank is acrylic. No worries with drilling an acrylic tank, by no means my first time doing that but drilling them while full of water was a little different!
 
I like the fact that you have high clearance working with that fx6 under the stand Lepisosteus Lepisosteus how thick is the acrylics?
 
I would definitely make some form of a stream, I mean it's perfect! Long and somewhat narrow, just choose a biotope (North America, south/central America, Asia, Africa, etc.) And get a school of some small fish in there and mimic the stream they come from (in driftwood, botanicals, rocks, sand, plants, etc.)
 
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Out of curiosity, what are the dimensions of the tank that these offcuts came from? I assume it's at least 2.13m long.
 
I would do a North American native stream tank.
I agree.
With the shallow depth, its width, and length, I would think this would be a great rheophillic tank, for smal lcolorful darters, and sunfish, and madtoms for catfish.
Depending on the power of the can, I would add a powerhead (wave maker pump) to get a more realistic linear flow along its total length.
I like to see plants bend and react to current.
My vals do just fine in a strong flow.
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Of course here in Panama the rheophillic species are goby's some cichlids, and others
 
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