edit:my now CLEAN really dirty tank

[obedey]

lol i put some river sand in and its really dirty its not really a tank either its half the liner of a 44gallon drum

I cleaned the sand and now it looks like this

 

[Billsgate]

Are you keeping fish in there? 8O
You can't even see 'em!

 

[Guest]

you can make fish tanks out of those?!?!??!

*runs to HD* *comes back with a 125 gallon rectangle*

aha! cheap fish tanks! although i dont think it will be a fish tank if it could that would be freakin sweet!(quoting Peter Griffin)

 

[obedey]

no there arn't any fish in there, i plan to put yabbies in it when i fix the water and they dont really make good tanks if you want to look at the fish

 

[Guest]

so those actually will work as fish tanks?

where did you get it

 

[obedey]

Well i dont really know if the plastic liner is toxic to the fish and god knows what kind of chemicals were in the drum. I got it out of my grandfathers shed. He used to work at a concrete place, he probably got it there. It was really black and dirty on the outside when i got it. Dont know wether it was from the metal drum or from sitting in the shed for so long but I spent probably an hour scrubbing it.

 

[Guest]

you should scrub it again with some kosher salt, scrub it really really hard, fill it with bleach, rinse with water, scrub again with kosher salt and then fill it and it should be clean

 

[obedey]

too late for all that scrubin now, i cleaned it pretty good the first time anyway. I cleaned the sand and put an updated photo in the first post.

 

[mattrox]

When do the yabbies go in. and how many?

 

[obedey]

i only got 1 yabby in it so far. A big female. i think im guna put in 2 smaller females and a male and see if they breed.

 

[mattrox]

If you want them to breed only one female and one male. With some caves (rock work) and if you get enough some of that moss that goes everywhere, baby yabbies can hide in it.

 

[obedey]

i heard that if you have 2 females it makes the yabby want to mate more.