YuccaPatrol
02-15-2006, 1:22 PM
Although I have 4 other nice aquariums, I have a 10 gallon that I use for quarrantine and as a snail factory. It is one of those super cheap combo kits with a Penguin Mini biowheel filter and incandescent lighting.
I bought a new Aquaclear 110 for my 75 gallon, that allowed me to move an Emperor 400 to my 29 gallon, leaving me with an old but perfectly good Regent Aquatech 30-60 (Walmart brand Penguin without biowheel) with nowhere to put it.
So I took off the hood of the 10 gallon and used a saw to cut out the back to make this big filter fit on the small aquarium. That left me with nowhere to put a heater, but since my heater on there is cheap and not very reliable, I bought a Visi-Therm Stealth submersible heater.
I also upgraded the incandescent lights with the small compact flourescent lights.
So for only the cost of the new heater and light bulbs and some time playing with tools, my 10 gallon setup now has excellent lighting and massive filtration. So much filtration that I have adjusted the flow to prevent my fish from being tossed around in the current.
Now I have an excellent quarrantine tank which has a big enough filter to handle a larger sick fish if I need it and I didn't spend much at all:
Compact fluorescent lights: $5 each at Wal-Mart
Heater: $19 at Petsmart (brought in their internet price print-out for price-match)
Sure beats putting good equipment in storage when it can go to use somewhere else!
I bought a new Aquaclear 110 for my 75 gallon, that allowed me to move an Emperor 400 to my 29 gallon, leaving me with an old but perfectly good Regent Aquatech 30-60 (Walmart brand Penguin without biowheel) with nowhere to put it.
So I took off the hood of the 10 gallon and used a saw to cut out the back to make this big filter fit on the small aquarium. That left me with nowhere to put a heater, but since my heater on there is cheap and not very reliable, I bought a Visi-Therm Stealth submersible heater.
I also upgraded the incandescent lights with the small compact flourescent lights.
So for only the cost of the new heater and light bulbs and some time playing with tools, my 10 gallon setup now has excellent lighting and massive filtration. So much filtration that I have adjusted the flow to prevent my fish from being tossed around in the current.
Now I have an excellent quarrantine tank which has a big enough filter to handle a larger sick fish if I need it and I didn't spend much at all:
Compact fluorescent lights: $5 each at Wal-Mart
Heater: $19 at Petsmart (brought in their internet price print-out for price-match)
Sure beats putting good equipment in storage when it can go to use somewhere else!