Fish Highway / Fish Bridges / Fish Towers

[samyboy]

hey in theory flexible tubing should workjust need some small very adventures fish

if you read the link to the fish bridge that should give you some help on filling it all, going to try get me some flexi tubing tomorrow

 

[Thuggerz]

you should stick to thicker pipe, depending on the size of your brige i think 6 inches is the most you should go the LFS or hardware store would have soemthing but the lfs nto so much not good big ones TINY ones like a fry bridge

Hi drango91, how about instead of using the bridge method use a pipe like the one's from gravel cleaners but bigger and let it dangle down from the top tank and let it go into the tank below?....

 

[samyboy]

it will syphon the water from the top tank to the bottom one causing a flood the water levels of the 2 tanks must equal each other when you set the system up, otherwise they will equal each other by themselves. not good

 

[drango91]

you should just buy the pipe its not THAT expensive at a hardware store

 

[Thuggerz]

Hi all, if anyone manages to find out where to get the materials for the fish bridge please let me know...btw i live in london


Cheers!

 

[samyboy]

pop down to B&Q or your nearest builders merchant here you should find the 90degree bends and fixings not sure where to find transparent tubing though

 

[miggi]

it would be raised on bricks and yeh water changes and the like scare me.........hey at least id end up with a 17 gallon

Quick point!! The amount of fish you can keep in your tank does not rely just on water volume - but surface area.....
if you are using a tank turned upside down inside another, filled completely with water you are drastically reducing the surface area, and therefore the amount of oxygen in the water.
Solutions??.... ok, the rest of the surface area could be moved twice as fast! or you could leave an inch or so of air inside the inner tank, but you'd have to be able to disturb it a little with a pump, and you'd have to completely empty and replace the contents when you do your water changes every couple of weeks. I don't know if this would be enough, what do you think?
Marie
oh and another thing, if you're raising a tank up above the line of another, surely you are not going to get a lid on! therefore no lighting? no plants?

 

[Thuggerz]

Hi all, just to let everyone know that i'm currently designing and building a tunnel that comes out of the tank and back in again, will post some pictures hopefully in about a week..WISH ME LUCK!!

 

[samyboy]

it would be raised on bricks and yeh water changes and the like scare me.........hey at least id end up with a 17 gallon

Quick point!! The amount of fish you can keep in your tank does not rely just on water volume - but surface area.....

good point .........eventually ill build a small bridge to the smaller tank seems alot easier, im currently doing the guttering on a new house if i could get a length of clear pipe the same width as guttering ill be laughing.............OMG!!!!!!! i could mount the small tank on a shelf high up then have piping going round the whole room


good luck on your build Thruggerz

 

[Thuggerz]

Hi all, has anyone attempted to build a fish highway or something similer?...

Cheers! big ears

 

[Opcn]

Clear rigid plastic pipe is very expensive, often times you can find like a floor lamp that has a column of water and bubles or something like that and buy it for less than you would pay for the pipe, but clear plastics that come in quantities we can deal with have huge markups, for instance a 4'X8'X3/4" sheet of plexyglass costs about $1000 USD on its own, not fun to pay for.

 

[Thuggerz]

Clear rigid plastic pipe is very expensive, often times you can find like a floor lamp that has a column of water and bubles or something like that and buy it for less than you would pay for the pipe, but clear plastics that come in quantities we can deal with have huge markups, for instance a 4'X8'X3/4" sheet of plexyglass costs about $1000 USD on its own, not fun to pay for.

Hi, i bought from ebay 2 metres of 20mm thick 50mm wide polycarbonate tubing cost me £8...hopefully by next week i should be completing my small project so i'll up some picks....

 

[rfisher]

Clear rigid plastic pipe is very expensive, often times you can find like a floor lamp that has a column of water and bubles or something like that and buy it for less than you would pay for the pipe, but clear plastics that come in quantities we can deal with have huge markups, for instance a 4'X8'X3/4" sheet of plexyglass costs about $1000 USD on its own, not fun to pay for.

Hi, i bought from ebay 2 metres of 20mm thick 50mm wide polycarbonate tubing cost me £8...hopefully by next week i should be completing my small project so i'll up some picks....

Hi Thuggerz,

Cant wait to see the pics, Good Luck.

Rich

 

[Thuggerz]

Hi, i've come across somebody on ebay who deals in clear hard plastic which is where i bought mine from, so check it out and hopefully you'll have your bridge up in no time.....

http/stores.ebay.co.uk/Clear-Plastic-Sup...6QQftidZ2QQtZkm

 

[SamUK]

Hi, i bought from ebay 2 metres of 20mm thick 50mm wide polycarbonate tubing cost me £8...hopefully by next week i should be completing my small project so i'll up some picks....

50mm is no where near wide enough. thats only 5cms wide so your gonna get some fish stuck in the tube lol.


i emailed a company that made the clear plactis pipes at 150mm which is the reccomended size and it will cost a small sum of £400 for a 5m length!!

ouch!


i was thinking of tring to make some sort of window in some normal black drain pipe using a flat sheet of perspex cos its about £10 for a 5'x2' sheet and if you get it thin enough it will bend easily.

jus dont kno if silicone will hold it.




EDIT - he does have the bigger size too.

http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/150mm-x-3mm-x-1m-Cle...8QQcmdZViewItem

sweet.