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01-17-2007, 03:57 PM
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Location: Bellbrook OH
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NEW HERE building a large tank
HELLO! this is my first post here at aquarium advice and i look forward to becoming part of your (seemingly) already great community. i hope that me not having fish at the moment and being new to the site will not give the impression that i am new to the hobby or inexperienced. a am in fact very knolegible in the area of fish. i do however have many empty tanks as i just moved and had to get rid of my fish i do plan on filling them soon though! Sadly i have no fish at the moment... but i am working on a rather large project, making a 8x4 FOOT! tank. this tank however will not be an aquarium but a paludarium! ~part land part water~ it will consist of an oak waterfall, an small pool that goes down to another waterfall, a bit of rapids, and then finally the main pool that will have about 50 gal in it... what inspired me to do this you might ask? well on a wonderful walk along the bank of a small stream here in Ohio i noticed the wonderfully diverse population among the rapids and pools of the stream, along with the intricate root systems that many of the pool-fish lived among. i was immediately hooked and went out to buy every book on Ohio streams and the fish i could find. I was very suprised to see that unlike popular belief that the cold-water fish here are boring and dull that they are very colorful and vibrant and that there are many types of these fish. i will be working on this project for a wile and may have many questions to ask but i will to be sure to keep you all posted on anything that i do to it.
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01-17-2007, 04:32 PM
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01-17-2007, 04:45 PM
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THANKS!
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01-17-2007, 04:48 PM
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Welcome to AA!!!
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01-17-2007, 05:12 PM
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Welcome to AA!
I look forward to following this project!
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01-17-2007, 06:32 PM
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Hello, and Welcome to AA!!!!!
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01-17-2007, 06:36 PM
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Welcome to AA! Your project in the works sounds very cool. 
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01-18-2007, 10:14 AM
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Please do not cycle with live animals.
That sounds like a really cool project!
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01-18-2007, 11:10 PM
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i know not to cycle with animals! i personaly beleave its very crule to cycle with fish be feeders or not. at least when they're fed to another fish they're serving a purpose! sorry... thanks for all the positive comments and i will be sure to update these as the project goes along!
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02-01-2007, 12:48 PM
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Wow, that sounds great! I'm glad to hear someone else is interested in something I am. I have been trying to get info on such a project but I'm not making any head way. I'd be really interested in any info you or anyone else has. Good luck!
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02-01-2007, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by vintage rose
Wow, that sounds great! I'm glad to hear someone else is interested in something I am. I have been trying to get info on such a project but I'm not making any head way. I'd be really interested in any info you or anyone else has. Good luck!
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02-01-2007, 04:57 PM
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Aquarium Advice Regular
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so vintage what type of a project are you wanting to do? and thank you!
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