Hi all,
Been over a year since I posted here but thought I would share with this group. My penthouse idea has been slow in the patent office but is going well. Its an add on for the aquarium that is quite unique I think, any way it is a globe that you fill with water that has a tube about 5" in diamiter that puts the globe above the fish tank. The height of the globe depends on the length of the tank. Once your fish get use to it they will go into the globe from the bottom and enter the globe. When in the back of the globe the fish appear quite larger than they are. If any one is interested I will post some pictures of it. The water naturally exchanges with the water in the tank and there is no fear of the fish dying in the globe due to lack of oxygen.
On another note, my daughter brought home a bunch of turtle eggs they found on a beach that were abandoned or in the process of being dug up by a preditor. She brought them home in a cooler full of sand. We left the cooler on the back porch and I checked it every other day. One day I found a baby Snapping turtle on top of the sand in the cooler. I took one of my ten gallon aquariums and started putting the hatchlings in it with sand and water. 19 of the eggs hatched out of 20. Good survival rate. That was last October of 2008. It was too late in the year to release them back into the river so I have raised them since then. They are doing quite well to date. They do like to follow your finger around and like to snap at it. Any way this is my up date for now. Thanks for reading Dave
Been over a year since I posted here but thought I would share with this group. My penthouse idea has been slow in the patent office but is going well. Its an add on for the aquarium that is quite unique I think, any way it is a globe that you fill with water that has a tube about 5" in diamiter that puts the globe above the fish tank. The height of the globe depends on the length of the tank. Once your fish get use to it they will go into the globe from the bottom and enter the globe. When in the back of the globe the fish appear quite larger than they are. If any one is interested I will post some pictures of it. The water naturally exchanges with the water in the tank and there is no fear of the fish dying in the globe due to lack of oxygen.
On another note, my daughter brought home a bunch of turtle eggs they found on a beach that were abandoned or in the process of being dug up by a preditor. She brought them home in a cooler full of sand. We left the cooler on the back porch and I checked it every other day. One day I found a baby Snapping turtle on top of the sand in the cooler. I took one of my ten gallon aquariums and started putting the hatchlings in it with sand and water. 19 of the eggs hatched out of 20. Good survival rate. That was last October of 2008. It was too late in the year to release them back into the river so I have raised them since then. They are doing quite well to date. They do like to follow your finger around and like to snap at it. Any way this is my up date for now. Thanks for reading Dave
