....a 20 gal is dribbling a bit....it'll get swapped out this morning....blah...
Swapped it out...bottom seal was loose/gone....I popped another 20H in there, looks good...it's a $20 PetCo tank... ;D
Those Tetra tanks bow like a swan's neck, but for the money I don't complain much.
There's a smaller pet chain called Pet Supplies Plus that runs a $/G sale too and they sell Aqueons, but they are franchised. So some are big some are small and they certainly aren't in every strip mall in the country.
Quote from: Bushkill on November 09, 2014, 07:06:42 PM
Those Tetra tanks bow like a swan's neck, but for the money I don't complain much.
There's a smaller pet chain called Pet Supplies Plus that runs a $/G sale too and they sell Aqueons, but they are franchised. So some are big some are small and they certainly aren't in every strip mall in the country.
There's a pet supplies plus by me and I love them. During the last $gallon sale they ordered some extra 55g Aqueons for me and held them for me. They have good discounts on other pet supplies too. ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Bushkill on November 09, 2014, 07:06:42 PM
Those Tetra tanks bow like a swan's neck, but for the money I don't complain much.
There's a smaller pet chain called Pet Supplies Plus that runs a $/G sale too and they sell Aqueons, but they are franchised. So some are big some are small and they certainly aren't in every strip mall in the country.
nope...it's an Aqueon tank....got it while back when they were the closeouts... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I don't think a 20H would bow much anyway...too short a span....
I heard that Pet Supplies did the sale up to 75 gallons. Not to sure there isn't one close to me. I haven't got a tank from petco since they switched brands.
Quote from: b125killer on November 09, 2014, 07:36:55 PM
I heard that Pet Supplies did the sale up to 75 gallons. Not to sure there isn't one close to me. I haven't got a tank from petco since they switched brands.
If you find one up there, let me know..... ;D....
Quote from: Mugwump on November 09, 2014, 07:30:24 PM
Quote from: Bushkill on November 09, 2014, 07:06:42 PM
Those Tetra tanks bow like a swan's neck, but for the money I don't complain much.
There's a smaller pet chain called Pet Supplies Plus that runs a $/G sale too and they sell Aqueons, but they are franchised. So some are big some are small and they certainly aren't in every strip mall in the country.
nope...it's an Aqueon tank....got it while back when they were the closeouts... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I don't think a 20H would bow much anyway...too short a span....
The 29G's sure do. I cut some glass tops for a couple a while back and measured at the tank ends. The tanks are place with the short end as the viewing panel, so the covers aren't like the conventional versa tops. When I put the glass down on the rim at the back end lowered to the middle, both me and the fish got pretty ticked when the slab of 1/4" glass fell in. They bow a full 1/4" at the middle.
Quote from: Bushkill on November 09, 2014, 08:23:43 PM
Quote from: Mugwump on November 09, 2014, 07:30:24 PM
Quote from: Bushkill on November 09, 2014, 07:06:42 PM
Those Tetra tanks bow like a swan's neck, but for the money I don't complain much.
There's a smaller pet chain called Pet Supplies Plus that runs a $/G sale too and they sell Aqueons, but they are franchised. So some are big some are small and they certainly aren't in every strip mall in the country.
nope...it's an Aqueon tank....got it while back when they were the closeouts... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I don't think a 20H would bow much anyway...too short a span....
The 29G's sure do. I cut some glass tops for a couple a while back and measured at the tank ends. The tanks are place with the short end as the viewing panel, so the covers aren't like the conventional versa tops. When I put the glass down on the rim at the back end lowered to the middle, both me and the fish got pretty ticked when the slab of 1/4" glass fell in. They bow a full 1/4" at the middle.
The 20H don't seem to bow. I have two in place. I have a 40b that is not bowing either but it has a center brace on the bottom. Thankfully I found Pet Supplies Plus before I bought anymore tetra tanks.
Like Jon said, the 20H's are too short to bow much, but every so often I look down the front of those 29G's and just shake my head.
Late to this thread but......came home from a four day trip Monday night, went to check on my fish and the first thing I saw was a big stream of water on the floor. The $10, ten gallon Tetra tank cracked from top to bottom on the front pane of glass. Luckily only about 1/3 of the water had drained out of the tank, no casualties. Whew.
BTW...the tank was on a perfectly level surface and had been running for a little more than a month.
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 13, 2014, 04:52:46 PM
Late to this thread but......came home from a four day trip Monday night, went to check on my fish and the first thing I saw was a big stream of water on the floor. The $10, ten gallon Tetra tank cracked from top to bottom on the front pane of glass. Luckily only about 1/3 of the water had drained out of the tank, no casualties. Whew.
BTW...the tank was on a perfectly level surface and had been running for a little more than a month.
Glad to hear it wasn't worse and your fish survived. Now I'm worried about the 2 Tetra tanks (20H, 40B) that i have set up. ??? :o
Everyone says that those Tetra tanks are garbage. Thank God you had no losses.
Thanks. What I dreaded seeing was a dead discus laying on the bottom of the tank. He was being bullied and started looking punky so I pulled him, did daily water changes and kept him under observation. He's doing fine, begging for food when he sees me. My stomach turned seeing water on the floor. What a relief seeing him begging when I approached the tank.
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 13, 2014, 05:07:45 PM
Thanks. What I dreaded seeing was a dead discus laying on the bottom of the tank. He was being bullied and started looking punky so I pulled him, did daily water changes and kept him under observation. He's doing fine, begging for food when he sees me. My stomach turned seeing water on the floor. What a relief seeing him begging when I approached the tank.
Whew.... ;D
I'm glad to see you didn't lose him. I don't take many trips away from home, and stories like this are the main reason. My wife already thinks I'm nuts so I wouldn't dare divulge that.
I was mulling over revamping another part of the fish room and buying new $1/G tanks in the process. After reading this and looking at the bowing in the 29G's I already have, I think I'll hold out for $1/G sales at Pet Supplies Plus. I'm not sure Aqueons are that much better made, but they can't be worse.
I came up with a plan for taking the bow out of the 29G's: I'm going to crazy glue a strip of thicker acrylic across the middle of them. I usually do 50% on them, but I'll take them down to 25% remaining, crazy glue the strip in place and clamp it. Kind of a DIY center brace for a cheaply made 29G. I have 4 of them so I have to work with them. If it was 1, I would've torn it down to use for glass covers by now.
Most of a 10G with a recuperating discus is tough enough to deal with, imagine a bigger tank full of fish? I'm thrilled you lucked out here.
Thanks and I understand where you're coming from. I had an old 90 gallon full of adult male African cichlids. It was a beautiful display tank....until I noticed wet carpeting minutes before we were set to head out for the day. It's amazing how fast a tank can be torn down and fish moved! Adrenaline. And it's really annoying how well plecos can hide when we're trying to save lives.
Now I'm hoping my luck doesn't run out. I can't understand how a vertical crack can occur down the entire front of a small tank. Perhaps there was a small crack under the rim....????
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 14, 2014, 08:35:04 AM
Thanks and I understand where you're coming from. I had an old 90 gallon full of adult male African cichlids. It was a beautiful display tank....until I noticed wet carpeting minutes before we were set to head out for the day. It's amazing how fast a tank can be torn down and fish moved! Adrenaline. And it's really annoying how well plecos can hide when we're trying to save lives.
Now I'm hoping my luck doesn't run out. I can't understand how a vertical crack can occur down the entire front of a small tank. Perhaps there was a small crack under the rim....????
Glass has some of the weirdest working properties. Your theory on a crack or chip under the rim isn't far-fetched by any means. It only takes a tiny chip on any edge and just the right pressure, and........
I've taken rims off tanks and some are just un-seamed (nice sharp, unpolished) and some that are down-right ragged. So it isn't just the glass thickness that worth considering, but the overall workmanship.
I worked for this place back when I was going to school in Pasadena. I was drafted into to Army while working there. It was, and is still, one of the most interesting things that I have ever done. I got to use my school chemistry when using electrolysis to clean micro filaments, and etching the deuterium and hydrogen lamps. I was trained to run the furnaces for annealing both the glass and metals used...they used glass spinning on lathes to bond glass, in layers, on metals....fascinating stuff for a young lad like myself.... ;D...it was a small shop then and we all got a chance to watch each new adventure in custom lab equipment evolve.....
http://www.qbinstruments.com/ (http://www.qbinstruments.com/)
I had to concentrate reading your post and there were "big words" on the "about us" page of the site. I could see where you would enjoy that job. Then I went to the "items for sale" and got a real surprise when I saw what they were. :)
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 14, 2014, 04:28:15 PM
I had to concentrate reading your post and there were "big words" on the "about us" page of the site. I could see where you would enjoy that job. Then I went to the "items for sale" and got a real surprise when I saw what they were. :)
On the front page was this pic...these lamps were shown threw a solution of minerals/chemicals and the color spectrum graduated out on a corresponding chart reflecting their identities/properties...either a hydrogen or deuterium lamp may be used depending on the applicable tests being done....the lamps have a micro-thin water jacket for cooling, as the get very hot. I helped test these when I worked there.
(http://www.qbinstruments.com/images/qb_lamps01.jpg)
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What were those lamps used for?
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 14, 2014, 09:04:07 PM
What were those lamps used for?
Deuterium Lamp's continuous spectrum is useful as both a reference in UV radiometric work and to generate a signal in various photometric devices.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Deuterium_lamp_1.png/450px-Deuterium_lamp_1.png)
Emission spectrum of an ultraviolet deuterium arc lamp showing characteristic hydrogen Balmer lines (sharp peaks at 486 nm and 656 nm labeled Dβ and Dα from left to right respectively), continuum emission in the ~160-400 nm region and Fulcher band emission between around 560 to 640 nm. The emission spectrum of deuterium differs slightly from that of protium due to the influence of hyperfine interactions, though these effects alter the wavelength of the lines by mere fractions of a nanometer and are too fine to be discerned by the spectrometer used here. Deuterium is used rather than hydrogen because of its greater intensity of UV emission in the molecular band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium_arc_lamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium_arc_lamp)
Well... :o...that's a bit more than the hummingbird feeders they sell. ;D
Quote from: PaulineMi on November 15, 2014, 05:51:17 PM
Well... :o...that's a bit more than the hummingbird feeders they sell. ;D
Those are likely 'spare change' makers from a by product from the glass blown fixtures..??...I know that we never had those back when I was around...LOL....of course, that was 50 years ago...I was around 19 yrs old at the time that I started... :o :o :o :o :o :o :o....
Lol.....50 years ago....I had a job as a car hop at an A&W root beer stand. ;D