VIDEO: nano tank + happy OTO

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In case anyone is interested, I made a little video of my tank and my OTO :D

Dun ask why, just thought it would be a lil different from all the car racing videos.

Enjoy~


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I'm sorry to say this dude, the video is cool and all but your tank is WAY too small for those fish. I sure hope you change your water alot (almost every day) because there are about a thousand things wrong with that setup that will eventually cost the lives of your fish. think about the welfare of the animals you're keeping. Keeping anything in a 1g tank is just asking for trouble.
 
Originally posted by ~*LuvMyKribs*~
Hey i don't remember if you mentioned this in the other nano tank thread, but where did you get that little heater? i need a tiny one and cant find any. so small!
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It's a 50 Watt 6" Submersible TRONIC heater. Since it has an electronic thermostat, it keeps incredibly accurate temperature, comparable to the Ebos.
 
Originally posted by cdawson
I'm sorry to say this dude, the video is cool and all but your tank is WAY too small for those fish. I sure hope you change your water alot (almost every day) because there are about a thousand things wrong with that setup that will eventually cost the lives of your fish. think about the welfare of the animals you're keeping. Keeping anything in a 1g tank is just asking for trouble.
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I did this nano tank as a project, just for something a little different than the other larger tanks I've kept. I can honestly say so far, I've spent much MORE time & money (relatively speaking), on this nanotank than any other tank I've owned. I perform water tests weekly, sometimes twice a week, water changes every few days, vacuum excess food/waste almost daily, and pay painstaking attention to small details with this nano environment.

No doubt that dealing with a smaller volume of water, there is a much smaller room for error. But like I said, this has been a project for me. If it weren't so, I wouldn't have gone through all the trouble of building a custom power glo lighting setup for this micro tank, nor would I have spent time doing thermodynamic calculations to figure out heating rates for this setup. Please don't assume I'm just another guy who saw a small tank at the LFS and wanted to stuff it full of fish despite the 1"/gallon rule of thumb, because he thought it would look "neat."
 
Nice little tank there. Like someone in the other thread said, it's nice to see something that looks cool, but isn't in the plants/rocks/wood category. Where'd you get that cool little gas station? Is it a real aquarium ornament or was it for something else?
 
Thanks for the compliments. The gas station is an ornament that I picked up at superstore chain called Petcetra, similar to Petsmart. Since I'm into cars, thought it would make a nice addition to the tank:D
 
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