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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #170



>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 04:03:26 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>
>Subject: Re: Dry land tank
>
>Thomas Barr described a fresh tank design, a toroid with corners:
>
>> This is an old idea but one that is very interesting and very
>> nice to look at.
>
>It sounds so obvious, that it *must* be an old idea.  But I don't
>recall ever coming across it.  If you're "reinventing the wheel,"
>everyone I know is using sleds. :-)

A good friend of mine "rescued" a very thick old hardback book about 
aquarium fish after it had been so abused her father was going to throw it
out.  I apologize that I neither recall the author or the title right now, but 
this book had a photograph of a large purpose built setup in this style, 
and recommended it as a way to be able to see plants in your tank if you had 
herbivorous fish.  IT also had a design with a back section of the tank 
sealed off behind a wall of glass, with plants behind it, and fish in the front 
section.
     And the Petsmart nearest me has a smallish(around 30 gallons?) setup 
kit designed like this.

>> It's using a larger tank, say 75 gallon tank and placing a 25
>> gallon tank in the middle gluing it down the bottom of the
>> glass. 

-Chrys