Extreme Makeover - River Tank Edition

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Post by Marcos Mataratzis » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:37 am

Amazing tank Emma! 8)

I have a question.
Would that riverflow fit for clown loaches as well?
I do know that most botine species likes strong flow but I´m interested in clown loaches in particular. Would that system fit for a 150x50x60cm tank?

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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:15 am

Marcos, the River-Tank manifold is home-built to whatever size one needs from PVC plumbing pipe and fittings.

http://www.loaches.com/articles/river-t ... old-design

Here's my Clown aquarium:

http://www.loaches.com/articles/my-clown-loach-aquarium

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Post by Marcos Mataratzis » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:12 am

Hi Martin,

I had already read that on the articles area. It´s a very fine project. I will consider that for the future.

What a nice filtration you got there! 8)
Mine consists on two Tetra Whisper 60 (1252 L/h each) hang on plus a modular 6 stage intank filter with a 650 L/h powerhead that gives me some 7X filtration.

BTW, sorry for using metric units. Galons, Farenheit, inches are not comonlly used here in Brazil.

Thanks for sharing your video!

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Post by Emma Turner » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:58 am

Hi Marcos and welcome to Loaches Online. :D

Thank you for your nice comments about my river tank.

Clown loaches love current, the more the better. :wink:

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Post by wasserscheu » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:23 pm

Terrific pictures, ... needed to look at them again...and again...

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Post by Martin Thoene » Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:51 am

Do not worry about metric units Marcos. This is such an international community here that we just deal with it if it's not the standard in our country. Personally, I suffer from being of a generation that had its country switch to metric well through our formative education and now we are all messed up living with both things in our heads :?

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Post by Emma Turner » Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:50 pm

wasserscheu wrote:Terrific pictures, ... needed to look at them again...and again...

... cool Annamia-"amphibian".
Many thanks Wolfram, it is great to hear that you enjoyed the photos so much! 8)

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