post your ghetto rigs!!!!!! ...:)

[markl]

Let's see those ghetto rigs....lord knows we all have built them, now show them....no shame in your game I got a few I'll post when I get to a camera.

 

[myvwrock]

 

[markl]

I was talking more about things you have made for your tanks. I have a pvc skimmer that works .Ive also made cheap diy ato .Heck i have one of those right now.:yes:

 

[markl]

Here's a diy stand
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[mapleredta]

Wow, you're brave. lol

 

[rbredding]

mapleredta;545556 wrote: Wow, you're brave. lol

:lol2:

 

[markl]

Wave maker http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jbird35/?action=view&current=MOV05027.flv">MOV05027.flv video by jbird35 - Photobucket@@AMEPARAM@@http://vidmg.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vidmg.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jbird35/MOV05027.flv@@AMEPARAM@@vidmg@@AMEPARAM@@mg@@AMEPARAM@@v283/jbird35/MOV05027</a> . Not mine but funny.


:doh::lol2:

 

[christopherjay]

ahahahahaha thats freaking funny!///

 

[smoothie]

MarkL;545663 wrote: Wave maker http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jbird35/?action=view&current=MOV05027.flv">MOV05027.flv video by jbird35 - Photobucket</a> . Not mine but funny.


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Honestly if that container was deeper to hold more water it wouldn't be a bad surge device. At least we found something to keep Andy busy for another week:D

 

[moebious]

MarkL;545663 wrote: Wave maker http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jbird35/?action=view&current=MOV05027.flv">MOV05027.flv video by jbird35 - Photobucket</a> . Not mine but funny.


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I actually thought of doing something just like that. Now that i see it i'm glad i never did it.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

Smoothie;545809 wrote: Honestly if that container was deeper to hold more water it wouldn't be a bad surge device. At least we found something to keep Andy busy for another week

Youd be surprised to see how many public aquariums use devices just like that. Including a tiny one known as the GA Aquarium.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

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[markl]

Under water vacuum
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[cr500_af]

The wavemaker seems to lose some of its "wow" in the smaller scale. Okay, pretty much all of its "wow".

 

[jmaneyapanda]

cr500_af;545909 wrote: The wavemaker seems to lose some of its "wow" in the smaller scale. Okay, pretty much all of its "wow".

That being said, Im sure it serves its purpose well.

 

[cr500_af]

jmaneyapanda;545988 wrote: That being said, Im sure it serves its purpose well.

Perhaps... I think the issue with it is that it just kind of plunks straight down. The rolled-back top of the viewing window in Tropical Diver I think is an important ingredient to the wave's travel.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

cr500_af;546553 wrote: Perhaps... I think the issue with it is that it just kind of plunks straight down. The rolled-back top of the viewing window in Tropical Diver I think is an important ingredient to the wave's travel.

I think you discredit the amount of water that can be moved by a pressure wave. It surely isnt the main means of circulation, but it serves its purpose (as does the one at the GA Aquarium).

 

[kayakatl]

Ill take pix when I get my tank moved to my house but my ATO is rigged. Parts list:

1 vertical float switch (thanks AndyMan!)
1 dosing pump
1 12v relay
1 small project box
1 9v batt. harness
1 9v batt.
1 piece of thin acrylic boiled and bent to 90* angle for float switch and a cheapo petsmart cleaning mag. to hold my strip to my sump wall making it adjustable.

Yeah... i never got around to getting a 12v power supply running. I tore one out of an old PC and never finished the project.. I am powering a 12v relay with 9 volts I have to replace about monthly. New house is good motivation to fix this. Oh... and my sump is 1/2 a wet dry with the skimmer in a 10 gal Sterolite container connected by 1.5" pvc and bulkheads. I will post pix when i can get them.

 

[rasbora]

MarkL;545873 wrote: Under water vacuum

Very interesting, can you post up a shot of the other side of the scoop.

 

[kayakatl]

Im not sure I hold a stick to AndyMan, but I have McGivered (sp?) quite a bit of stuff in my time... there will be more. I just try NOT to use Alabama Chrome (duct tape) for much of anything.