buying second hand tank (hopefully)

[Undawada]

If you buy it, post pics!

 

[Jen]

but I thought it would be a cool avatar fitting my name (Spelling variant of "Underwater")...

Thats soo Simple. I have seen your name a million times, but was baffled by the pronounciation. lol

Silly me!

 

[chishnfips]

Hey hey, I bought the tank last night and spent most of it cleaning it out and putting it in position.

Right enough it was £25. I got a night light and day light a heater and the makings of an undergravel filter, along with the tank and stand.

Tanks dimensions are: 48 inches long x 12 inches wide x 15 inches high.

My brother and I worked it out to be roughly 37 gallons (uk Gallons). So I am a way out today to start hunting for all the stuff I need, Gravel, filters and what not (cant wait).

Will post a pic after the weekend once I get a camera.

 

[annka5]

H'mm, am not sure a 4ft tank is going to be big enough for the Loch Ness Monster. You realise you may have to buy a bigger tank when it gets older?
Also, you need to keep the water very cold and simulate constant rain, maybe a mini-fountain floating on the surface would help with that?
I also hear they've a very specialised diet of porridge....

 

[Undawada]

 

[chishnfips]

I feel the micky being taken here lol

Well living in scotland there is a never ending supply of the highest grade porridge, it's the salt to oat ratio thats the key you see.

 

[annka5]

Dunno what you're laughing at
I live in v small village vaguely near Stirling, so am allowed to get confused by life sometimes.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

Um, okay....

Just to add to the insanity, now some people are thinking Nessie might be some type of huge eel. Personally I don't know, you think if it was an eel it would be yanking boats down... but they also say the people around the loch don't want to let on if it's dangerous because it would kill the tourist flow... But I mean, come on, people go to see grizzlies at yellowstone all the time, and I'm sure you've seen the grizzly vs. car videos lol.

 

[OohFeeshy]

I thought the loch ness monster ate haggis? Or is it a diet of porridge with supplements of haggis...I can never remember. Good deal on the tank though, Freeads rock! I must go and buy the latest one...

 

[RYO]

I thought the loch ness monster ate haggis?

NO NO NO, haggis is way too fast for old lochy,you see the haggis (Haggius haggai) is built to run the hills of Scotland having 2 long right legs and 2 short left legs.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Ah yes, but once the haggis hunting season is over (when is it this year? Have I missed it?) Nessy ambushes sucessful hunters and eats the dead haggises. Ambushed hunters account for 69% of all sighting, did you know?

 

[RYO]

No , the season runs from mad march through to december. The ambush hunt is the best way to hunt the speedy haggis, the beaters first scare the haggis ,on instinct the allways run anti clockwise round hills(having long right legs)and like all hearding animals flock together . Then the trap is sprung , as the flock (not sure of the collective term) race round the hill a second party of beaters wait and as the fock get close the use those scotish martial arts thingies, you know??? erm those things with tripple blow pipes and built in warcrys, ah! yes bagpipes.
The haggis try to turn but the little left legs cant cope and they roll down the hill to the waiting hunters. This is not recomended in winter as the haggis have a defence mechanism, as they roll the collect snow and many hunters have been killed buy giant snow haggis.