Okay, a little explanation first. I got a 5 gallon hex for a snail project, but my mom didn't want it in the house (why? I have no idea...:headshake2
. So it is being kept in my dads office. My dad is a radiation physicist and a professor at a university. He had his office decorated with the radiation symbols everywhere! So, I have plans for this hex, to make it fit in. Right now, it has 1 brig apple snail and a couple of small snails who snuck in. I plan on adding cherry shrimp later. It has natural gravel and a fake wood/plant structure. I am going to empty it out, change to black gravel with a handful of lime green gravel mixed in. Coming up from the center I will have driftwood covered in moss, and there will be 2 narrow leaf java ferns in the back.
Okay, now about the barrels. Here is what a radiation barrel looks like.
So, basically, it is a cylinder with a "rib" on each end and two "ribs" in the center. It is yellow, with a black symbol. One end is open, one end is closed.
I bought some pvc pipe for the cylinder. I got slip over caps, the ends of which will be sliced really really thin for the ribs. I got push in endcaps for the bottom of the barrels, which will need to be sanded round and thinner. I also will cut off a lot of the part that fits into the pipe to leave more room for shrimp.
Pictures coming very soon. I took a couple, I just need to upload them.
. So it is being kept in my dads office. My dad is a radiation physicist and a professor at a university. He had his office decorated with the radiation symbols everywhere! So, I have plans for this hex, to make it fit in. Right now, it has 1 brig apple snail and a couple of small snails who snuck in. I plan on adding cherry shrimp later. It has natural gravel and a fake wood/plant structure. I am going to empty it out, change to black gravel with a handful of lime green gravel mixed in. Coming up from the center I will have driftwood covered in moss, and there will be 2 narrow leaf java ferns in the back.Okay, now about the barrels. Here is what a radiation barrel looks like.
So, basically, it is a cylinder with a "rib" on each end and two "ribs" in the center. It is yellow, with a black symbol. One end is open, one end is closed.
I bought some pvc pipe for the cylinder. I got slip over caps, the ends of which will be sliced really really thin for the ribs. I got push in endcaps for the bottom of the barrels, which will need to be sanded round and thinner. I also will cut off a lot of the part that fits into the pipe to leave more room for shrimp.
Pictures coming very soon. I took a couple, I just need to upload them.
Only 5 gallons. I'm going to stock it with cherry shrimp. Too bad they don't make glo-shrimp!!!! 
