rollntider
Fish Herder
after wanting to build a betta barracks and searching for plans online. I was less than pleased with what I found. Some used food safe water hose with holes poked in them, to the black plastic tubing you find in hardware stores. I wouldnt trust that to be my waste lines let alone use it to keep my bettas alive. 
I finally decidedthat good ole' American made PVC was the way to go. Nowthe delimma, how to I drip the water to my cups?
First I measured my PVC tothe length of my shelf, it is 32 inches long I will make my PVC runs 30 inches long. I experimented with a few of the drip emitter things and tried my best to get the plastic the emmiters were made from to bond or chemical weld with the PVC. It wasnt going to happen. Silicone didnt hold after 24 hours
ok time to panic!!!!! 
Ok let me look at those barrack places again I have fvisited so many times over the days and weeks of planning. All of them use those darn plastic emmiter tubes. no sir not me they wont hold with PVC. The bettersones use FDAapproved water hose and almost went that route , but I wont be houseing 100 bettas on this fella either.
I went to my local ace hard ware and cried on his shoulder and told him what was happening. Turns out he is a fish nut like me and we end up talking fish
oh wait 
Ineed tobe working on this thing. Well dude Imay just gothe water hose route after all...but wait he comes to an idea. Threaded barbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Thats it!!!!
(continued)
I finally decidedthat good ole' American made PVC was the way to go. Nowthe delimma, how to I drip the water to my cups?First I measured my PVC tothe length of my shelf, it is 32 inches long I will make my PVC runs 30 inches long. I experimented with a few of the drip emitter things and tried my best to get the plastic the emmiters were made from to bond or chemical weld with the PVC. It wasnt going to happen. Silicone didnt hold after 24 hours
ok time to panic!!!!! Ok let me look at those barrack places again I have fvisited so many times over the days and weeks of planning. All of them use those darn plastic emmiter tubes. no sir not me they wont hold with PVC. The bettersones use FDAapproved water hose and almost went that route , but I wont be houseing 100 bettas on this fella either.I went to my local ace hard ware and cried on his shoulder and told him what was happening. Turns out he is a fish nut like me and we end up talking fish
oh wait Ineed tobe working on this thing. Well dude Imay just gothe water hose route after all...but wait he comes to an idea. Threaded barbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats it!!!! (continued)
ok now after every hole is drilled and "tapped" you can test and see if your fittings "fit" like so. Ok I am at a stopping point and wil lresume this tommorow (hopefully) if I do anymore to it. I am adding pics as I build this fellow. I will update as I go so you can follow the progress,thanks....
