Sillyfishies
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I'm sure someone does. Just keep checking. One is bound to show up. If not, make your own tank.
Maybe a plywood aquarium?
Want to have a Freshwater (Tropical) tank
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I'm sure someone does. Just keep checking. One is bound to show up. If not, make your own tank.
Maybe a plywood aquarium?
Sillyfishies
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*cheap. It's way cheaper to make one. Especially plywood ones.
mistersprinkles
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The guy's like 14 man. He's not going to build his own aquarium. Let's not get off topic.
mistersprinkles
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Did you go to Maidenhead today like you said you were going to? Price stuff out?
mistersprinkles
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Why don't you do a 15 gallon with amanos cherries, and a honey gourami.
15 gallon oh i could:/ not RCS apparently Amano's are hard to keep?! only 1 honey gourami surely more fish could be kept in a 15 gallon with a few shrimp
mistersprinkles
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So u want a nano shrimp tank? Like a 5 gallon or something? You won't need a stand for a 5 gallon, since they only weigh about 50 pounds. You could filter it with an aquaclear mini. Lighting could be a 5-10 pound incandescant hood with 2 CFL bulbs. That'd be enough, in that shallow of a tank, to grow some plants decently.
You could probably do the whole setup for 100 pounds, including shrimp, provided there are as cheap cherry shrimp sources out there as there are where I live. I can get about 50 of them for 10 dollars.
Maybe add a few amano shrimp as well for variety.
yea, to start off with, well on eBay you gotta buy case,intake,plug thing individually? What about heater/thermometer/prime/fertilisers/live plants?
mistersprinkles
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I have no idea what you're talking about
25W or 50W heater. Use a digital thermometer if you can. Ferts are unnecessary with no co2 addition. You can grow some anubias and java fern without them. Prime is cheap. Get a big bottle so it lasts you and get a syringe/pipette so you can measure it out exactly. Just a few drops are needed.
That's an obscene price. I wouldn't pay that much. You can't find cherry shrimp privately?
http://www.gumtree.com/p/pets/red-cherry-shrimp-for-sale-50p-each-5-free-offer/1034369165
Here's a guy selling them for 50p. Is he near you?
the aquaclear filter, you cant buy it as one you gotta buy all he parts to make it and individually,
yes 50 watt heater is what people say
what tank do i get, some people say Fluval Ebi,Aquatic Nature Cocoon Tanks,Dennerle Cubes?:-/ ah
yes 50 watt heater is what people say
what tank do i get, some people say Fluval Ebi,Aquatic Nature Cocoon Tanks,Dennerle Cubes?:-/ ah
mistersprinkles
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No dude. The aquaclear comes as one unit.
Hagen Aquaclear Power Filter - 20
See? Whole unit.
AquaClear 110 Aquarium Power Filter - for 60 to 110 US Gallon tanks | eBay
Again, whole unit.
Both of those are the wrong size for a 5 gallon, but I'm just posting them to show you that the aquaclear is NOT bought in parts. No idea where you got that thought from.
I suggest you buy a plain cheap 5 gallon bare tank, and add the smallest aquaclear they make, a small heater, and a 5-10GBP incandescant hood. That'll be best.
If you can't find an Aquaclear around you, use a properly sized alternative HOB or internal filter.
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