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I have really fallen in love with this, and recon it will look great in a small modern apartment (where you don’t have room for tanks unless they are built into the furniture).

Now i know it only has a UGF, but that just means you under stock it... and it does have two power heads...

I was thinking: black gravel and a few big java ferns in the middle. And then a nice big fancy goldfish or two. What do you recon? Not many stories about these so opinions wanted.

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Looks cool to me. It would be a real converstion piece. I would'nt worry to much about the undergravel filter, they have been around for years and work fairly well.
 
UGFs are effective filters, but just not for tanks of the size we maintain with the size of the fish we maintain. You could put 1 fancy goldfish in it, or a school of white clouds.
 
Well he is only located 25 miles from me, i am going to review my savings and have to speak to my parents (still living with them).
But even if they are not keen on it in the house, i can stick it in storage with my other stuff for a years time.
I recon a school of white clouds will be hard to see in a 75 gallon - above view. Might get a nice big fancy like a Oranda.
 
Do it as a community tank guppy, molly and platy bread and butter fish full of colour and hardy if you go for the black sand/gravel they will stand out really well.

I’m not a great lover of fancy gold fish but then again my catfish are.;)
 
Thanks :D and DOn't worry about reviewing your funds if you'll take another look I just bought it !! :D


Just kidding :) I was going to buy one local here... But passed... this one looks awesome as well :) cannot say i'd buy it but can't say i wouldn't :) They circle design is much better than square in my opinion :)
 
I was thinking of doing lots of bread and butter fish stotty, but i prefer centre piece fish really. While with goldfish i do not have to worry about heating the 'table' or room.
Haha had a few comments like that when i mentioned my want for goldfish. I was hoping to track down some of the more rare fancy and expensive kinds of goldfish, as apposed to our 'common one munches'.

Tongue i actually believed you for a split second when you said you bought it! haha!
I also prefer the circular to the square design.

I am very much an impulse 'have to have it now' buyer. But i think i am being talked round to holding off for a year till i buy one. It is not like they are suddenly going to disappear in that time.
 
Here in the States not many fish stores would bring this in. They'd be too afraid of the customer creating a green pool in their living room. I admit they look great when you first set them up. Ambient light as well as any lighting provided by the manufacturer usually, when combined with the bi-products of just maintaining a fish tank, make a green, cloudy, soup-like affair in short order. Add to that having to remove the glass top each time you do any maintenance and you're cursing the store owner that sold you the tank in a matter of months if not weeks.

I agree that you want something that'll show up when viewed from above. An oranda or bubble-eye would be my choice also. Dan
 
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