PlanetCatfish.com

Hi all i know ive put this in a topic before but it's been updated load's since then, anyone else have a big tank or link's to big tank's please post them.

Kev

sorry i forgot to put the link in http://www.freshwaterstingray.nl/Frames ... glish.html

Kev

Here you go. Enjoy.

Here you go. Enjoy.

Some nice tanks there. I'm sure many of us would like one of them.

There is one though that is kinda confusing to me. The last one on the page has the two tanks on opposite sides of the room. They are attached by tunnel that goes up from the tank to the ceiling and than back down to the other tank. Without compolete sealing the tanks would this not leak alot until the tunnel was empty. but if it is completely sealed you would not have any air entering the setup. I guees you could have some holes in the top of the tunnel but then when the fish swim by they will cause the water to leak out and then drip on the floor eventually.

That last one is interesting, but looks ridiculous in it's own construction, and in regard to being linked to such small tanks.

You wouldn't want any holes in that 'pipe'. The entire contents would flush down into the two tanks, and may even flush the fish onto the floor.

That pipe is just one big siphon. The water is suspended by a vacuum pressure created by it's own weight. I was trying to spot a valve or similar at the top. I assume they had to suck the air out of the pipe from somewhere (no-one has a gob that big - do they?).

There is an example of the same principle here in Melbourne. A gravity fed waste water main crosses at right angles, a normal open irrigation channel. The waste water comes along the pipe, up and over the channel in a big arch, and continues on the other side. Just a big siphon.

I'm wondering what this bloke does when one of his fish dies half way across?

Air bubbles will build up in that extension (you can alrady seem some above the cichlid), unless there is a valve at the highest point to release the air from, which I can't see. And as kana says, if the suction is broken both tanks will likely be flushed onto the floor! A cool idea, but I doubt it lasted long once the maintenance problems became apparant.

Those really big tanks are awesome, but I'd rather fill them with lots of smaller cats, like schools of a couple of dozen S. decorus etc.