Re: NANFA-- Building cheap fish containers

Mark (nanfa_at_jonahsaquarium.com)
Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:37:53 -0400

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At 5:38 PM -0400 8/9/03, Todd Crail wrote:
>I'll check Monday at work to see if we can even order anything like that.
>We do have the 3 way PVC fittings that Rob mentioned.
>Here's how Tropicorium (a coral farm and LFS) solved the issue:
>http://www.tropicorium.com/low_tide_2.html
>These tanks are 3.5' tall, consist of block, angle braces on double 2x6's
>and a 60 mil tarp drapped over it. The garden hoses I think help keep it
>from bowing. The tanks are about 8'x16'... A lot of bang for the buck.
>They're in Romulus Michigan which is only about 40 minutes from here. Maybe
>we can day trip up there sometime and look at all the corally goodness :)

Corally goodness. He, he. :) Sounds like fun. Hey, what does
Carter's charge for those PVC furniture fittings? What diameter pipe
do they take? Thanks.
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