Tall tanks

[Whitey]

Does anyone make a a tank roughly 2ft high but only 3ft long? This is the only thing i can think of that would be good for cichlids and fit in my room?

 

[wrs]

that would only be good for angel fish and some small dwarfs at the bottem of the tank.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

I have a tank that's 2 ft tall and 2 ft long, and I've been told by a few members on the board that it's big enough for a firemouth cichlid plus some other stuff, so I think it would be fine.

 

[Tolak]

A 65 gallon has those dimensions, 18"x36" footprint, 24" tall.

Tolak

 

[Dragonscales]

I have a 2 foot high by 18" by 18" tank that I plan to use for seahorses soon. An lfs near me also stocks different sized 2 foot high tanks in their saltwater section (not badly priced too considering they are fairly big tanks and use thicker glass).

 

[Dwarfs]

Does anyone make a a tank roughly 2ft high but only 3ft long? This is the only thing i can think of that would be good for cichlids and fit in my room?

For cichlids, surface area is much more important than height (Angels do need a tall tank though)

IMO, most smaller cichlids would be happy in 6" of water, so unless you plan on keeping angels, a 3" long should be a good tank

 

[Paul_MTS]

having extra volume is always nice if you can afford the tank and filtration as it makes the water chemistry more stable.

MerAquatica will be able to make you a tank to what ever dimensions you like and at very good prices..... http/www.meraquatica.co.uk/

if for say you want to keep africans you want a huge ammount of rock in there to make enough holes and caves for everyone so the extra height is always useful!

 

[annka5]

genuine question; how do you get at the bottom of tall tanks? Mask and snorkel?!!

 

[Paul_MTS]

quite simply....with difficulty!!

when i'm moving anything around in the tanks i grab a stool to stand on, it's no point struggling in a 2ft deep tank when you might crush a fish.

 

[Whitey]

You can get extendable arms like inspector gadgets from most toy shops.

Lol, no i beleive you can buy long 'claw' type things you can use to rearage things and grab things.

http/www.aquatics-online.co.uk

I beleive stock these.

 

[Dragonscales]

quite simply....with difficulty!!

when i'm moving anything around in the tanks i grab a stool to stand on, it's no point struggling in a 2ft deep tank when you might crush a fish.

You're lucky, I only use a wobbly, half broken chair! I tend to do alot of things in this manner (being accident prone doesn't help any either). Safety first isn't in my dictionary