future plants.. will be awsome

Hans

Hans

I will eat your fish.
Oct 24, 2003
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i plan on having a tank in 2 rooms, connected by clear tubing, wide enuf for fish to travel from one tank to the other, wouldnt this be awsome? i wonder if they would go from tank to tank depending on if you were watching tv inone room or what time of day it is, anyone ever heard of linking tanks?
 
i've seen similar set ups in photos, trendy bars and the like. no idea how the fish would act tho? alltho this picture had a betta sitting in one of the tubes.

i say go for it

:D
 
That waterbridge looks really nice. There's a store by me that has two large acrylic tanks attached with an acrylic tube right in the middle (about 1/2 a side wide). Hard to explain but probably over a 100 gallons in each side tank with a large tube connecting the tanks. Cichlids & lava rocks mostly. It's really nice, it's the edge of the mall show tank.
 
I've experimented with the water bridge concept some time ago, using about 6 feet of 1.5" clear tubing. The tanks were set up right next to each other and the experiment worked fine. I had it set up for a few hours just to see if it was practical. Only one of my clown loaches was brave enough to make the journey all the way through the tubing and into the other tank. Most of the loaches would chicken out about 1/4 ways through the tube. 1.5" tubing was not ideal though because the fish had a difficult time turning around.

I think this could be turned into a great idea for setting up a biotope system. With different types of tanks networked together. Such as having a heavily planted paludarium tank which is part land/part water, connected to a river tank, and also connected is a deeper pond type tank. I guess it all depends on the species of fish though.

Here’s another link to the subject.

http://fishighway.com/
 
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