WTB: Equipment for 2 feet tank

[roy]

Folks,

I'm going to set up a 2 feet tank. Looking for lights and filter. Filter can be in any shape or form so long as it suitable for the task. The tank will be use for low maintenance plants and apistos.

Please pm me with details.

Thanks,
Roy

[Simon]

Roy go to Chan and get their Eden internal filter.. ard $17.. for lights I guess u shld get a 2nd hand.. tank u might oso wanna ask Chan

[justjoin]

woh, so fast setting up another tank liao.

U got space for it?

i wish i could do soon

[roy]

No lah. Got a empty 2 feet spare tank that I used for cycling before delivery of my main tank. Too many tempting fishes so might as well set up it up.

Simon, $17 is a good price but is it one of those internal or hang-on type? I've got a air-pump left over from a aromatherapy setup and thinking of using it to drive an air-pump filter or undergravel filter. Comments?

Thanks,
Roy

[roy]

justjoin, I've got a spare bedroom that I use as a den/study room. Lots of empty space in it and once thought of using it as a fish room. You know - a few racks of shelves and tanks stacked on top of one another and using it for breeding, quarantine-ing and experimenting, etc. etc.

Nay, just a fantasy - no time and no energy to spare []

Roy

[sherchoo]

Since you got space try doing a bigger tank. Easier to set up. Most importantly it's more tolerant to mistakes.

[roy]

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On 7/17/2002 3:02:02 PM

Since you got space try doing a bigger tank. Easier to set up. Most importantly it's more tolerant to mistakes.
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Wow, sherchoo, this 3.5 ft tank of mine is already taking lots of my time! Tweak this, adjust that, measure this, monitor that, etc. All these driving me nuts!

On top of that, keep losing my apistos like it's going out of fashion. In a short span of 2 weeks, bye-bye to around $180 worth of apistos. Well, I'm a virgo and has got a type A personality so tweak this and adjust that even more. Well...

[roy]

Having said that, I must confess very tempted to get a bigger tank. Simon's 6 ft tank keeps floating in my head []

[sherchoo]

welll..... 2ft is kinda small. It's quite hard to control the water conditions. Any small adjustment will have quite a large change.

6ft is big, maybe consider a 4ft instead.... if you read any of those aquarium books, most of them (if not all) says that when choosing the size of tank, always go for the largest tank your pocket and afford and the biggest size you can fit in your intended location.

Good Luck