My first fish room
- Thread starter Matteus
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Ya it has been an ongoing battle. Almost nothing happens fast. Often I have to overcome numerous obstacles for each tank set up to make it work with whatever set up I am trying to work with. But I am happy to learn and gain more experience with each obstacle I overcome. I feel like a much stronger fish keeper and human after all of this adversity.
I have a few more tanks to get out of this garage, so I can get a few more of my keeper tanks in here so I can finally start automating things. It can be a task when I have high bio loads in these “smaller” tanks so I have to do 2-4 wc a week. I typically change out about 2-300g each time a do a wc.
What's in your rubbermaid sump? I have a similar container waiting to be turned into a sump.
I used the original box filter I made with bio balls under the yellow (lid with holes drilled) drip tray. I put floss under the pvc that has holes drilled all across the pipes.
Then it comes out of the bottom of the box into a water bottle that I attached to the return pipe. The water bottle (half size) is loaded with cycled k1.
then on the other side I have a full sized water bottle upside down with a bunch of bio media rocks (matrix??) to hold it down. Then I have an air stone pumping air into the water jug full of k1 media. I had no idea how to hold it up and steady so I surrounded the jug with bags and bags of bio ring media.
I used all of the original filtration from the tub, including an fx6 for polishing inside the tub. Then I had a friend who was tearing down a super clean 500gal set up, so I bought all his bio media off him before it had a chance to dry out. I had no idea how to keep it all alive, so this is what I came up with in the hour drive I had coming back from his house.
?? I look forward to hearing about being a fish red neck from
jjohnwm
and
esoxlucius
for this jimmy rig contraption on a time and money budget.
Outstanding! Hits all the bases; lots of Rubbermaid, lots of DIY ingenuity, takes up lots of room...I couldn't have figured out what it was without your explanation! Brilliant!
All kidding aside, and ignoring the savings in money...there is a lot of satisfaction to be derived from understanding the processes sufficiently well to design something like this, and then to produce it yourself...and then having it work. Bravo!
Your hat and badge are in the mail, and I will PM you a video the explains and demonstrates the secret handshake; you're in the club!
All kidding aside, and ignoring the savings in money...there is a lot of satisfaction to be derived from understanding the processes sufficiently well to design something like this, and then to produce it yourself...and then having it work. Bravo!
Your hat and badge are in the mail, and I will PM you a video the explains and demonstrates the secret handshake; you're in the club!
I can't really add anything else to what
jjohnwm
said. Outstanding redneck capabilities
Matteus
. We really need to start an annual redneck convention to celebrate our "Jimmy rig contraptions" (I like that term Matt, lol).
With both of you being in Canada it's only fair that I come over to you. And of course, in true redneck style, to trump everyone at the convention, i'll be flying in on my DIY plane, made of all the rubbish I have in my shed! Lol.
jjohnwm
said. Outstanding redneck capabilities
Matteus
. We really need to start an annual redneck convention to celebrate our "Jimmy rig contraptions" (I like that term Matt, lol).With both of you being in Canada it's only fair that I come over to you. And of course, in true redneck style, to trump everyone at the convention, i'll be flying in on my DIY plane, made of all the rubbish I have in my shed! Lol.
So some new jimmy rig diy ingenuity
I have a few new arrivals coming any minute now. (Just sitting at the airport?)
they are kind of jumpy folks so I had to throw something together.
this double stack came at a fairly manageable price. But the condition of them reflected the price. So I had to clean them up a bunch and re seal them both. The 75g on the bottom had a rusty razor blade stuck inside the bottom trim. And the 90 on top seemed to bow enough that I could see it. So I cut a piece of glass to size and braced the centre, and re caulked the trim to add more stability. Then I just used the “broken, misplaced, partial lids I had laying around scrap pile” to cover the top 90 gal. Then I used gorilla tape to adhere the poly carbonate sheets to the openings to seal off the sides. This way I only needed 1 official lid. And I kept the top tank bare bottom so I didn’t need a second light as well.
I have a few new arrivals coming any minute now. (Just sitting at the airport?)
they are kind of jumpy folks so I had to throw something together.
this double stack came at a fairly manageable price. But the condition of them reflected the price. So I had to clean them up a bunch and re seal them both. The 75g on the bottom had a rusty razor blade stuck inside the bottom trim. And the 90 on top seemed to bow enough that I could see it. So I cut a piece of glass to size and braced the centre, and re caulked the trim to add more stability. Then I just used the “broken, misplaced, partial lids I had laying around scrap pile” to cover the top 90 gal. Then I used gorilla tape to adhere the poly carbonate sheets to the openings to seal off the sides. This way I only needed 1 official lid. And I kept the top tank bare bottom so I didn’t need a second light as well.
Nice job cleaning up those tanks and clever way to guard against fish leaving the tank. Bit of a tight fit to get fish in and out of that bottom tank though.
I don't know which I like more: the use of one fixture, shining through a bare bottom to light a second tank...or the caulking gun so well-used and encrusted with dried goop that it looks almost like a fossil.
The Bubba is strong with this one!
The Bubba is strong with this one!
