Just need some help

[PatWerewolf]

I was wondering if it would be okay to use a large 45 gal [175 L] plastic container which have been throughly washed out as a tank outdoors as long as it is heated?

The reason why I ask, is because, I have a part time job and on average only make $40 in two weeks since I am going to university & half of that money goes to rent, food, etc.

I love fish, but if I want to have some, by the time I am able to afford the traditional glass tanks of that size, I'll be long gone and probably won't have any time for fish anymore.


Using the plastic tanks, which are a heavy plastic [I'll double up just in case one gets punched through], with a meshed top will that be okay?


If so, what type of fish [it'll be heated], should I keep???


thanks

 

[Dwarfs]

It sound cool, big tubs arepretty cheap too How cold does it get by you? One fish that I have heard reccomended for outdoors is the Paradise fish, which are very adaptable and colorful

 

[PatWerewolf]

I live just east of Vancouver, BC. I believe the winters are relatively warm but I've never stayed here during the winter since I just got here.

 

[cation]

Nope, you guys are colder then us folk here in Seattle, and it gets WAY too cold for tropical fish to be outdoors. You would have to have a monster heater, and I'd imagine it'd be quite difficult to avoid temp. swings, but maybe you could...Maybe ask in the pond forum and see if anyone heats theirs, and if it works well. Good luck!

Also, you know that guppies and endler's can interbreed, so after time you wouldn't likely have many that weren't hybrids.

 

[David]

How can you see the fish properly if they are in a plastic tub?

 

[PatWerewolf]

clear plastic

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Ok idea but bad choice of fish to go in it.

Also, looking at your sig your second tank idea is not a good one, laberynth fish can be aggressive with each other.

Guppies and endlers are tropical fish, you're not going to be able to keep it at a constant or warm tempature I would imagine.

Why not just have it inside?

 

[PatWerewolf]

I was wondering if it would be okay to use a large 45 gal [175 L] plastic container which have been throughly washed out as a tank outdoors as long as it is heated?

The reason why I ask, is because, I have a part time job and on average only make $40 in two weeks since I am going to university & half of that money goes to rent, food, etc.

I love fish, but if I want to have some, by the time I am able to afford the traditional glass tanks of that size, I'll be long gone and probably won't have any time for fish anymore.


Using the plastic tanks, which are a heavy plastic [I'll double up just in case one gets punched through], with a meshed top will that be okay?


If so, what type of fish [it'll be heated], should I keep???


thanks

1. It can not be indoors since there is hardly enough room for my roommates and myself in the house we rent.

2. I can not afford a tradional tank as mentioned, and by the time that I can, there will be no point.

3. a well planted carefully thought out tank can supply enough shelter for Bettas and other such aggressive fish. I kept four female bettas and a male within a glass 20 gal and there was no problem because all were roughly the same size and there was shelter to hide within/behind.

 

[David]

1. It can not be indoors since there is hardly enough room for my roommates and myself in the house we rent.

2. I can not afford a tradional tank as mentioned, and by the time that I can, there will be no point.

3. a well planted carefully thought out tank can supply enough shelter for Bettas and other such aggressive fish. I kept four female bettas and a male within a glass 20 gal and there was no problem because all were roughly the same size and there was shelter to hide within/behind.

What do you mean by the time you can afford it there will be no point? If you can lose interest in something that easily, you are obviously not passionate enough about it and should not even bother pursuing it. Personally I don't think a plastic container is an acceptable home for tropical fish (wait... any fish), especially outdoors. But, if you are so certain that it will work, why bother coming to us for help?