Uncle Bete
01-14-2004, 6:32 PM
As of now, but changing soon...
20gal. was a quarantine tank for fish going into mom's indoor pond. http://www.geocities.com/memaspond/pond002a.html
this picture was taken last summer. she likes pig figurine thingy's so of course they ended up around the pond too. There is some irony to what I said on the main page about snakes. Last fall I was met in the hallway by a 4' black snake! lol This is the only pic I have anymore. We (mom, dad, I) built it in Aug. '02. Its approx. (inside dimesions) 6' across the far wall x 7' on right wall. and around 13" water level. I was Fishguy, dad was structural eng., mom was plant manager. I wanted to make it as fool proof as possible, so everything(pumps/hoses/pvc/filters/etc.) is inside the liner. In the near right corner is a submersible pump with pvc running back behind the waterfall into a plexiglass box i made to spill the water across the rock to the front. And another pump next to it with pvc running the the far right corner into a spill way.
I redone it about a month ago. It used to have a sponge filter. Now it has a box I made (pexiglass) that hold an AC500 sponge and carbon. Both make for very easy filter maintenance. I got bored and made a swinging bridge for one of the pigs. You can see the dark area around were the pig is. Thats from water splashing from the water fall. Not good! Twine broke, pig hung on though! I cut it off and all thats left is at the far side, kinda gives it that "been around for a while" look! We started with something like 3 female red velvet sword's(they seemed to get the biggest) 1 male red velvet sword, a gold female sword and 2 other male swords and a couple of platy's. 4 rainbows (I think those were the first babies we seen, I figured they were swords, but now we have 2 smaller, 4" rainbows) 3 female dwarf gouramis and 1 male. After a few trips to the LFS with 20 - 30, 2 1/2 - 3" swords (excludeing sword) I decided to try something for crowd control. First was a banjo cat. That didn't help or not enough? So next was an African butterfly. Between the two of'em they must have been keeping the population down a little. Then along comes neice and her boyfriend with a red eared slider (turtle). it was probably 3 1/2" across the shell. We feed him on the island (to the left of the bridge in photo). The vine on the right really liked the water and was growing like crazy. But, the turtle liked the vine and any other vegetation hitting the water. After he(now around a 5" shell) killed a rainbow last week, he went to a LFS/Pet/Rodent store the same day. A man working there might have taken him/her home with him, he has a basement thats suppsoed to look like the amazon or something. The banjo was actually seen yesterday, butI believe the butterfly had become turtle food. Today 1/14/04 I just put a pim pictus into the pond (hopeful crowd control, the butterfly must have been doing something because there's an awful lot of baby swords swimming around now. A chocolate pleco(sci. name?) around 9"will also come from mom's 55 and into the pond any day now. I gave a quick try at catching him after the pictus but it didn't work. So he get's to wait till I tear the tank down(any day now). An upside down cat(sci. name?) approx. 7 1/2" will come out of the 55 and go into the 20 that I started to talk about that was a quarintine tank for future pond critter's and now houses 1 male and 3 female peal gouramis. And last but deffinatley not least! A frontosa (approx. 10" will come out of the 55 and into a 30 with his little siliconed together lava rock house that he likes so much that he never comes out of. I just made a prefilter/over flow for the 30 to move water to a 10 gal tank sump. The one I'd already made for it, was made for a very low flow, because I was going to make it a planted tank. Thats about it for now, except for the 4"+ female sword and her 30+ babies going from the 30 to the pond. She was one of the originals in the pond. Fun, Fun!!!
20gal. was a quarantine tank for fish going into mom's indoor pond. http://www.geocities.com/memaspond/pond002a.html
this picture was taken last summer. she likes pig figurine thingy's so of course they ended up around the pond too. There is some irony to what I said on the main page about snakes. Last fall I was met in the hallway by a 4' black snake! lol This is the only pic I have anymore. We (mom, dad, I) built it in Aug. '02. Its approx. (inside dimesions) 6' across the far wall x 7' on right wall. and around 13" water level. I was Fishguy, dad was structural eng., mom was plant manager. I wanted to make it as fool proof as possible, so everything(pumps/hoses/pvc/filters/etc.) is inside the liner. In the near right corner is a submersible pump with pvc running back behind the waterfall into a plexiglass box i made to spill the water across the rock to the front. And another pump next to it with pvc running the the far right corner into a spill way.
I redone it about a month ago. It used to have a sponge filter. Now it has a box I made (pexiglass) that hold an AC500 sponge and carbon. Both make for very easy filter maintenance. I got bored and made a swinging bridge for one of the pigs. You can see the dark area around were the pig is. Thats from water splashing from the water fall. Not good! Twine broke, pig hung on though! I cut it off and all thats left is at the far side, kinda gives it that "been around for a while" look! We started with something like 3 female red velvet sword's(they seemed to get the biggest) 1 male red velvet sword, a gold female sword and 2 other male swords and a couple of platy's. 4 rainbows (I think those were the first babies we seen, I figured they were swords, but now we have 2 smaller, 4" rainbows) 3 female dwarf gouramis and 1 male. After a few trips to the LFS with 20 - 30, 2 1/2 - 3" swords (excludeing sword) I decided to try something for crowd control. First was a banjo cat. That didn't help or not enough? So next was an African butterfly. Between the two of'em they must have been keeping the population down a little. Then along comes neice and her boyfriend with a red eared slider (turtle). it was probably 3 1/2" across the shell. We feed him on the island (to the left of the bridge in photo). The vine on the right really liked the water and was growing like crazy. But, the turtle liked the vine and any other vegetation hitting the water. After he(now around a 5" shell) killed a rainbow last week, he went to a LFS/Pet/Rodent store the same day. A man working there might have taken him/her home with him, he has a basement thats suppsoed to look like the amazon or something. The banjo was actually seen yesterday, butI believe the butterfly had become turtle food. Today 1/14/04 I just put a pim pictus into the pond (hopeful crowd control, the butterfly must have been doing something because there's an awful lot of baby swords swimming around now. A chocolate pleco(sci. name?) around 9"will also come from mom's 55 and into the pond any day now. I gave a quick try at catching him after the pictus but it didn't work. So he get's to wait till I tear the tank down(any day now). An upside down cat(sci. name?) approx. 7 1/2" will come out of the 55 and go into the 20 that I started to talk about that was a quarintine tank for future pond critter's and now houses 1 male and 3 female peal gouramis. And last but deffinatley not least! A frontosa (approx. 10" will come out of the 55 and into a 30 with his little siliconed together lava rock house that he likes so much that he never comes out of. I just made a prefilter/over flow for the 30 to move water to a 10 gal tank sump. The one I'd already made for it, was made for a very low flow, because I was going to make it a planted tank. Thats about it for now, except for the 4"+ female sword and her 30+ babies going from the 30 to the pond. She was one of the originals in the pond. Fun, Fun!!!