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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:44 am
by KhuliKhilla
now... hows the BIG new tank coming along?
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:26 am
by Mad Duff
KhuliKhilla wrote:now... hows the BIG new tank coming along?
So far its in position and the back is painted, I have got the hood to build but things should start moving along with that as of tomorrow because I can start adding water, I will keep you updated

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:17 am
by avant
Excellent river tank!

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:42 am
by lf11casey
Very nice tank. I love the last fishie pic, it's really cool.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:51 pm
by Ded1
OMG. I could swear I heard one of your fishes singing that famous song
" Heaven...I am in Heaven...lalal lalalalalalaaaaaa "
BTW, who sings that anyway?
What about clowns...when those guys are getting in, or you have something else in plan for them?
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:56 pm
by Graeme Robson
Ded1 wrote:What about clowns...when those guys are getting in, or you have something else in plan for them?

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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:17 am
by Mad Duff
Ded1 wrote:OMG. I could swear I heard one of your fishes singing that famous song
" Heaven...I am in Heaven...lalal lalalalalalaaaaaa "
What about clowns...when those guys are getting in, or you have something else in plan for them?
You could be right about heaven

they certainly seem to be enjoying the tank
The link that Graeme put up (thankyou Graeme) is the new home for the Clowns

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:38 pm
by Ded1
Please dont shoot me ig this was asked and allready answered. if it is not secred, what was the final cost for your new tank? Tank and Technical stuff only?
Asking, because what you just created is my dream, so...

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:21 pm
by Martin Thoene
Ded1 wrote:OMG. I could swear I heard one of your fishes singing that famous song
" Heaven...I am in Heaven...lalal lalalalalalaaaaaa " BTW, who sings that anyway?
"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie
Top Hat (1935).
The song is probably most famous for its opening lines, "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak..." and was featured in the Astaire-Rogers movie, soon becoming a standard sung by many other artists, including Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Eva Cassidy, Doris Day, Jane Monheit and Frank Sinatra.
The song, as sung by Astaire and Fitzgerald, is featured in the movie
The English Patient. It is sung by Kenneth Branagh in
Love's Labour's Lost. It is also shown being performed in
The Green Mile and
The Purple Rose of Cairo when
Top Hat is being viewed.
Martin.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:19 pm
by Mad Duff
Ded1 wrote:Please dont shoot me ig this was asked and allready answered. if it is not secred, what was the final cost for your new tank? Tank and Technical stuff only?
Asking, because what you just created is my dream, so...

No probs, I already had the tank, gravel, bogwood etc so all it cost me for was the powerheads which I got a deal on and they cost me £40 for the 3 with 6 filter cartridges, I used 4 lengths of pipe @ 70p a length and then there was the elbows, t-pieces and connecters which cost about £10 all in.
I did buy a large sack of Caledonian Cobbles from a local garden centre which cost £5 and the only other thing I puchased was a small fan to keep the tank cool which cost £4.99 which makes total cost £62.79.
I probably could have done it with out buying new powerheads but my old ones were getting on a bit and they are all different makes.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:38 am
by Ded1
Not expensive as I was expecting it will be. ( I mean the specific stuff you are mentioning ).
Well, you waited for your tank 10 years, and I started today with mine project, with a small but important decision.
I decided I can not say goodbye to my 5 Clowns, some of them are 4 years with me allready, and I am planing new tank, ONLY for them, for their needs and simulating their enviroment only.
The best I can do ( as room is concerned ) is 6,2 x 2 x 2. Comparing it with my 4 x 1.6 x 2 about 75gl now, sharing it with gouramis...I think it will be a very nice step forward in their lives.
Mad Duff - now you know that you are a true inspiration to someone about thousand miles away. This goes for entire loaches online team, with their great examples of how loaches deserve to be kept.
Now, I only need that lottery ticket,

Lucky me half of my clowns are juveniles and they dont mind waiting little longer at this time in 4 feet tank.
But you know what they say, "journey of 1000 miles, begins with one step "...and that step was my final decision not give my guys away, but to start planing new tank.
@Martin - incredibile

. Next time if I am going to have some question regarding music, I know who to ask

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:41 am
by Martin Thoene
I can't take credit for those words, but I did know which song the lyrics were from
Martin.