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What is the one tank item that you think is GOLD

ie makes life easier (tops cleaning item or a recruit to help with water changes !)
or give you a kick outta it (mega shipwreck with animated squid)

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'kay I will start.... getting a better filter setup for me has been a winner. I wasn't able to manage my old setup as easily. And although my type of filter may not suit everyone it has made my tank housekeeping a million times less stressful (and tear free!)...

I used to panic thinking I couldn't get it backup and running in time and would lose my fishie friends....



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~Sin~ to heft the buckets

Oh ohhhkay, seriously probably bristlenose. Algae machines!

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

My garden hose syphon. Yay ... no more bucket loads I love it

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Those who say they cant, Never will !!!

I agree, I wouldn't have a tank bigger than 20G without a "python" thingy(mines not really a python but a DIY version cost about 1/2). I just filled my 50G tank, and was thinking about what it would be like to haul 10 5g buckets and lift them to fill....and the mess. Not pretty.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Gotta agree with matty...my Python! I wouldn't have more than one tank without my Python. Makes water changes great!

*Kristin*

Hm,

Water



Ingo

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Proud Member of the New Jersey Aquatic Gardeners Club

Python, Python, Python!!! Don't have MTS without it! LOL

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

Ok,

Now I will be a little more serious.

I probably would say a Python as well, but that has been mentioned enough.

My next "gold worth" item is actually a camera.

Most of us like to share their tanks and fish with others, but only a limited number of people we have around us do have an interest in fish. Photos of the setups can be posted on the web, e-mailed, printed, and what not. This way we get a much larger exposure of our hobby and the pride we carry with it. Photos help greatly with the identification of problems, allow others to help with the general setup and more specific design issues, and looking at them gives us 1000 times more ideas on what we can do about our own tanks than if we would have to "take someone's word" instead.

And that's it,

Ingo

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Proud Member of the New Jersey Aquatic Gardeners Club

For me ... at the moment, I'd definitely cite the bogwood 'boot' in my Panda Fun Palace as one item I'm glad I bought and wonder what I'd do without ...

As for gravel vacs, well ... I made my own. Pop bottle top, length of siphon tubing, hey presto, DIY Python for 50p.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

DIY Gravel vac I can see how that works but DIY python attachement???

Getting the water outta the tank isnt the prob for me.... it is the tipping bucketfuls and then getting the water from the tap to the tank... that is the magic bit of having a python....

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~~~ My fish blow kisses at me all day long ~~~

"~Sin~ to heft the buckets "

FLOATING magnetic algae scrapers.

I used adams one on a string while I was there (go figure he can get any aquarium gadget he wants and he's got the string style ones )....well...the string...it kinda...broke.



Anyway....


I think the other half of the non floating algae magnet is still down under his substrate (and probably will be till December! ()) because my arms are way too short to reach the bottom of his bigger tank

I think my floating algae magnet travels with me from now on.

^_^

Hmmm...tough question, but I think I'll have to answer 'CAMERA!'

Btw, good luck getting that thing thru airport security! They'll think you have a bomb in it

Btw, good luck getting that {magnet} thing thru airport security! They'll think you have a bomb in it

Yes in the current climate I would not stash it in your shoe. Could get very exciting very fast.


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nice to know i'm good for something

Automatic timers. with 5 tanks and a total of 7 light strips to turn on, then 5 sets of moon light kits. That saves alot of time.

2nd, has to be the home made syphon for gravel cleanin. or the water pump (and 20ft of hose) for just topping off tanks. saves that time of moving buckets

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

lets see, I have a few favs that would make fish life unbarable...

My camera, only had it sence last christmas, and have already taken over 1500 pictures

Next is the bucket that I "stole" from my friend's dad..its a 3 gallon that conviently is small enough for me to carry, which has givin me the long needed muscle and came just in time, that next week, a horse would crush one of my buckets, and my dad would leave plaster in the other but it makes fish life very managable for me..

PARTIALLY UNDERSTANDING PARENTS! < always works when you begin looking around your room and wondering where you can fit more tanks in without having the floor fall through

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NOW I will for sure need to get a python in the NEAR future, I have 2 20 gallons, 4 10 gallons, 30 betta tanks, 1 29 gallon, 1 55 gallon AND I'm now getting another 55 gallon, AND a 75 gallon..somewheres around..next week

but i agree, my MTS will break somehting if i dont get a python lol oh, and did I mention all these tanks are in my bedroom....teehee

I need more bogwood... so I understand where Cali is coming from on that one.

I guess I would say... not necessarily a tank item, but I don't know what I'd do without dechlorinator.

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Lol... ah yes, I do agree about the magnetic algae scrapers. They do save me lots of work and they do the job well. I would use a used toothbrush to clean those hard to reach corners though.

To me, what's really invaluable are my plants. I wonder what the parameters would be like if they weren't in my tank....

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