Cheese please!

[adeyc]

I was in my lfs this morning when this woman purchased one of those really gaudy coloured castles for her tank. This got me thinking how many of us would admit to having some cheesey items in our tanks.

Me all i've got is two concrete effect roman pillars in the large community tank but they're almost obscured by plants, but I was thinking of having a small cheese set up in one of my betta tanks(multi coloured gravel, a diver and a treasure chest, a colourful skull. that sort of thing).

 

[Macquatic]

Whatever turns you on Ade! Not my cup of tea. The only artificial stuff I use are flowerpots. Mac.

 

[Great Lakes]

Adeyc, I thought that was why we have so many tanks. There are so many things you can put in an aqaurium, you just run out of room! I suspect some people don"t even like fish as much as they like aquascaping. I generally keep it simple, but I do have a sunken ship or two.

 

[Great Lakes]

Oh, by the way, You mean a real skull?

 

[Rose]

You want cheesey set ups huh. My downstairs neighbor has a doosy of a set up. Clown puke for gravel, multi colored florescent pagoda, florescent colored plants with a different colored light for each day of the week. This thing is scary. Rose

 

[Davy Reynolds]

Rose you have a scary neighbour :laugh:

Worst I ever had was a ship that had bubbles comming out of it.

Some of these ones that have sand flowing around them are smart

 

[adeyc]

Great Lakes. No it's a fake one. I'm not alowd to go into the graveyard anymore  

Rose I bet your neighbour hasn't got one of these.Click here then go to "Aqua-Stars Optic Fibres" It's my local lfs and the owner keeps trying to sell me one.

 

[Great Lakes]

Adeyc, Optic fibers would be cool I guess, if you wanted to be the first one on your block to own one.
On the lighting note. Us peoples that have reef tanks get carried away with lighting. I have 4 48" vho bulbs, (110 watts each), 2 36" blue actinics, (40 watts each), and two 25 watt 24" black lights to simulate moonlight(don't laugh), for a grand total of 570 watts of light! They come on in four phases. And I am at the bottom of the scale. It goes back to what I was saying about having multiple tanks, you can do something different in all of them. Avoid those butt ugly flourescent plants though.

 

[PETE A]

Hi

I might sound boring but I dont have any tacky plastic items in my tank or bright coloured substrate, just keep adding more plants, for effect. The only trouble when I come off nights and look into the tank find that some have been eaten to the base.

My first suspects were the Silver Dollar's but I have a feeling it's my Clown Loach's anyway we all like a good meal!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[Great Lakes]

Pete, it could be your loach. My wife is a silver dollar freak, and I have never seen any of hers touch a plant. I have had most of my troubles with platys.

 

[adeyc]

G.L. I've a few mates with reefs so I wont laugh at the black light.( cause coral/living rock does it's thang in the moonlight , usualy during a full moon as well). I think the fibre optics would be quite good in a sparse reef tank at night, but you'd be asleep so wouldn't get the benifit of hundreds of twinkly lights. they've got one set up in the shop and it looks good. I'm not to keen on them in a tropical tank though.

 

[Great Lakes]

Has anyone seen or used those laser lights they have out? Those look like they could be pretty nifty, but they are pricy.

 

[Rose]

I have them in my 55. I like turning them on after the lights have gone out. Makes fish and decor look real neat. One of these day's (if you ask nice) I'll get a pic of it up. Rose

 

[adeyc]

Pleeeaaaassssseeeee Rose.

There was adebate about those lasers last year in anothe forum. People were concerned about the beans damaging the fish's eyes. Personal I think it it wouldn't. My fish love to swim about chasing a beam from a laser pointer. They all go nuts trying to get it and eat it.

 

[Rose]

Alrighty then. It'll be a few days before I can get pics of them. I need to replace a couple of the lazers as well as some of the suction cups. Keep reminding me if I forget K. Rose