BiOrb aquarium cracked !

[LostBear]

Hi I can’t remember as I bought it a few years ago it was £80 the height of it is around 18.5 cm and width is around 14cm does this help ?

That seems very small. 18.5 cm is only about 7 inches. Your bio-orb wouldn't hold much more than a litre. Are you sure you aren't measuring in inches?

 

[Emma and the angelfishes]

That seems very small. 18.5 cm is only about 7 inches. Your bio-orb wouldn't hold much more than a litre. Are you sure you aren't measuring in inches?
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Yes my mistake sorry I am measuring in inches

 

[LostBear]

Probably about 12 - 14 litres, then.

 

[kwi]

Smallest BiOrb is 15litres, but whether that is the volume of water it can hold is another thing?

 

[Emma and the angelfishes]

Probably about 12 - 14 litres, then.

Thank you

 

[Emma and the angelfishes]

Smallest BiOrb is 15litres, but whether that is the volume of water it can hold is another thing?

I’m not sure if this help but here is a picture of it in comparison to a banana

 

[kwi]

Is that an EU or American banana?

 

[Essjay]

The photo looks like a biorb halo. There are three sizes currently made:
15 litres, 30 x 33 cm
30 litres, 40 x 46 cm
60 litres, 50 x 58 cm

And they are made of acrylic.

 

[LostBear]

I’m not sure if this help but here is a picture of it in comparison to a banana

It does help, thank you!

TBH there are few things which do not benefit from an appropriate banana comparison

(You are a credit to the forum, Emma . . . )

 

[Emma and the angelfishes]

It does help, thank you!

TBH there are few things which do not benefit from an appropriate banana comparison

(You are a credit to the forum, Emma . . . )

Thank you

 

[Emma and the angelfishes]

The photo looks like a biorb halo. There are three sizes currently made:
15 litres, 30 x 33 cm
30 litres, 40 x 46 cm
60 litres, 50 x 58 cm

And they are made of acrylic.

Thank you I think mine is the 30 Litre one from those measurements

 

[Emma and the angelfishes]

Is that an EU or American banana?

UK but I don’t know if there is a difference

 

[LostBear]

UK but I don’t know if there is a difference

I had assumed it was an EU banana, and therefore subject to Imperial measurements.

 

[kwi]

I had assumed it was an EU banana, and therefore subject to Imperial measurements.

EU is all about the metric......hence the 568mm of beer measurement..........

 

[LostBear]

EU is all about the metric......hence the 568mm of beer measurement..........

Not in this house . . .

As a Brit, I retain Imperial measurements in my very mitochondrial DNA . . .

I might pay lip service to this so-called "metric", but I don't believe that it actually exists, other than in the twisted minds of dystopian science fiction writers and politicians (HUGE overlap on the VENN diagram regarding these two groups).

Like every other red-blooded, rain-drenched, tea-sodden Brit, I go into shops selling stuff in kilograms and litres, and buy what I want by the pound or the pint.

When I see these obscene and irrational metric measurements on prepared ready-packed items, I mentally convert them. I have handy mnemonics for this. (eg "A litre of water's a pint and three-quarters", "A kilo of flour will easily fit, if you remember it weighs 2lbs and a bit" etc)

If I should die, think only this of me;
There is some corner of a foreign EU legislative diktat
That is forever England . . .