How to stock tall cylinder?

[Jrob]

"Attach elbow joints" translates to "make leaky places".

So, back to the ghetto with us regular poor folk, now. Without education, tools, or skills, how can I stock this tube? I know white cloud mountain minnows would fare terribly. Maybe a small species of gudgeon?

Brainstorm, shot down:
Betta - heater
Tetras - no room
Crayfish - eat plants
Large shrimp that won't eat plants?!
Some sort of eel-like animal that will enjoy going up and down the tube casually?

Ditch the plants and do the feeder cray?

LMAO, love it...

 

[Racersk]

CAE and some sort of vine...

Put a heat lamp on it during the day and it'll get warm enough in your fish room. Also, for the air, drill a small hole and insert the tubing through the bottom. Epoxy would work great to seal it after the tube is inserted.

 

[Kaosu]

i would do pennywort....it grows up and up and up and up and if you don't chop it up it will make long chains ^_^ love it when it stretches out over the surface of my tanks (and out)

a few ramshorn snails and maybe a few Res cherry shrimp once the pennywort grows up?

 

[aclockworkorange]

Cherry shrimp. Or any other small algae eating shrimp--Amano, red crystal, etc.

 

[spirofucci]

Very cool! I think you'd have to treat it kinda like a fish bowl. No filtration. Make the water changes from your fish tank. I'd try an air stone at the bottom and put some pothos and let it grow down the outside. Maybe get a cool long piece of manzanita in there.

You'd have to get a strong air pump cause that's a tall water column.

let us know what you do with it.

 

[kamikaziechameleon]

unique idea. I could imagine myself making something like that. Can't wait to see what happens with it.

 

[kevinfleming21]

I assume it's acrylic? I would make another end for it and try to use it horizontally

This is exactly what I was thinking. cap off the other end, drill for a hole and then pluge it for water changes

 

[David K. Bradley]

I assume it's acrylic? I would make another end for it and try to use it horizontally

This is exactly what I was thinking. cap off the other end, drill for a hole and then pluge it for water changes

I would have to agree, Kevin and shellies125. Great idea. It definitely would be easier to clean having it horizontal vs. verticle and it also would make it nicer for fish to swim horizontally vs. vertically.

 

[College fishman]

you could put one of those air breaks that come with air pumps (they let air one way and not the other, to prevent water from getting to the air pump....i cant think of what they are called right now) at the closed end and then put it in your tank with the open side up and suck all the air out of it, which will make like a stand up water column for your fish. you just have to take out all the air. idk i think it would be cool

 

[kevinfleming21]

make it into a praying mantis habitat!