Ghetto DIY Picture Thread

[bigbaddad]

in a pinch pex waterline's

 

[necrocanis]

Here's what I did at the last place I lived. I had to keep my fish outside so I decided to insulate there pond for a potential -40 F. winter. Worked great for the winter it was outside. Still works great in the garage in the place I'm buying now. There's been a barrel added above the fx5s full of pot scrubbies now. I'll try to find pics of that as well. Oh and if you were wondering I just didn't have enough tarp to finish covering the other side. I glued 2" styrofoam to the bottom to fit the inside of the cattle trough, and upholstered a tarp over the top and stuffed it with blow in insulation on top. Kept this baby at 80F even during the worst temps I've seen yet in Montana Windchill of -40F. The box around it was double insulated. There's way more pot scrubbies in the 55 gal barrel now, and it's been running fine for over a year now. Basically the Fx5s returns run up to the top of the barrel and after it fills to the pipe it overflows back into the pond. I have made lots of ghetto filters in the last few years. I have two 5 gal buckets with lids and all as a filter on my 300 gal pond. Will have to find some pics of that also.

 

[oregonian]

wouldn't that be considered a Montana hottub?

nice build(although i know its nothing compared to you current project).

 

[necrocanis]

Took me about a week to build the box around the pond. I think my cost was around $150 to winterize the pond, and of course the Fx5s were $200 each, and the trough itself was $125 when I bought it. So I have roughly $475 tied up in a 350 gal pond. The 300 gal pond has about $75 pump, $100 for the trough, $25 for the buckets, fittings, potscrubbers, ect. So $200 for a 300 gal. For it's cover I just laid some old aluminum siding over it and put a tattered tarp over that. So the cover costed me $0.00. Lighting on both ponds is whatever gets in when I lift the lids. I might actually redo the box around the 350 gal pond though. Starting to look too ghetto next to the 4000 gal I'm building. I'm not going to upgrade it again though. I have another tank build planned to replace it as my growout for the 4000 gal.

 

[Matt724]

nothing special, just a temp holding area for fish and gravel.

 

[ward1066]

came across this thread tonight, heres my ghetto egg tumbler

I found a easy way to make a egg tumbler out of spare parts I had lying around. I took a old gravel cleaner, cut it in half and then cut the second piece lengthwise so I would kind of roll up and fit inside the main tube. Added a piece of panty hose and a airstone and voila, egg tumbler. the bracket I made out of a old piece of tubing, a suction cup and some airline tubing.

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[RDTigger]

 

[fwiffo]

lol, just found this thread!

right on dudes!

lol, so many syringe shavings being use...where all these syringes coming from?!!!!

oh right, its ghetto filters!!!

here's mine:

she's butt ugly and it's in the tank- all of yours are outside the tanks and stuff!!

by the way, most of the time its waaaaay uglier than that!

 

[bitteraspects]

"tank":
50g steralite tub
rectangle hole cut in the top.
rectangle piece of eggcrate over the hole (1/2" larger then the hole)

"ohf filter":
steralite 3 drawer
top empty with the exception of the pvc fanbar Iblack thing sticking out the top). but i didnt hook the hose to it because i lost my hoseclamp. hahah. so i just shoved the hose in the first drawer.
2nd drawer. substrate and ceramic rings
3rd drawer. filter pads and polyfil

"pump"
ac70 powerhead in the tub with some random piece of hose i found lying around.

 

[bitteraspects]

ghetto coca-cola "box filter" with gravel and ceramic rings for bio. poly fill for mech. powered by some powerhead i had lying around