Thread: Yabby Tank the quick & nasty model

Saw a secondhand 25lt fish tank for sale $5. Got it home then it cost me $200 to set it up:mad:

6 mth later I went to the fish markets and buy 1.5 kg of live yabbies for dinner but my boys really bug me because they want to keep 2 for pets.

I put them in the fishtank but it is obvious that the tanks too small so I think... I know I'll get that 150 lt tank that I'd found at the side of the road and rebuilt and use that.

$1000 later in set up costs and the yabbies died before the tank was ready.
Must admit I enjoy the tank now though.

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You might want to add some dirt to form mud... like their natural habitat.

Saw a secondhand 25lt fish tank for sale $5. Got it home then it cost me $200 to set it up

How did it cost you $200 to set up, or the other one $1K???

Is that what it costs nowadays to chuck in a filter, light and gravel? .... or does it include a heap of flash fish and other stuff?

Originally Posted by Clinton1

How did it cost you $200 to set up, or the other one $1K???

Is that what it costs nowadays to chuck in a filter, light and gravel? .... or does it include a heap of flash fish and other stuff?

Yep. and that's doing it cheap! I made the hood myself and bought most things over the net which is up to 40% cheaper, got the rocks off the local beach and the fish are New Guinnea Rainbow fish- not too expensive. And if you want to go down the Co2 injection path :eek: :eek: :eek:

I can only imagine what a salt water tank costs to set up with protein skimmers and all the other weird stuff that they use.

You wait Buzza, those yabbies are going to start biteing into your pocket soon. Oh by the way how do you stop them from escaping- they do like a wander you know.

Wow!

:eek: :eek: :eek:

I reckon it'd be cheaper to get a poly cattle feed tank and a low voltage pump and make a big pond in the backyard.

Can't believe its that ridiculously expensive.

An aquarium will show the kids what the Yabby does whilst he's at home, very clearly, as well as any other inhabitants therein. A pond outdoors is a different but more natural way of doing it. I am thinking of a new way (which is ancient) to do this. When I was kid many years back, people sometimes made a bird bath which was hexagonal in shape, and each side was a little pane of glass cemented into place. Maybe I can get another blue 200 litre drum and put a glass end in it. Food for thought.

On the bottom of mine, I have placed flat slate piled up with gaps between, as well as five pices of PVC downpipe weighted down with a flat stane inside of each. Some mud may help as well.

The Yabbies drag the plants around something chronic.

thats a good thought Buzza, reckon it would work with clear perspex panels set into the sides?

Mate its a whole new world. Check out some of the web sites. As I said a you can spend $2K just on a co2 injection system for your plants. My Catalina lights cost over $300 and in theory I should have 2 banks not one. Or I could go metal halide- intro costs $1K.

Then there's the up keep......Mate dont start me.

Its not like when we were kids, its all high tech environmental control systems now.
The internet has spread information on how to set up systems correctly but you have to buy the gear. Heres an idea of what a good tank can look like.

Sorry to get sidetracked from yabbies Buzza
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/2...in/Planted.htm

its a whole new world

yep.
Looks good, but I think I'll give it a miss. a bit too much $ for me.... I'll have to stick to a face mask and snorkel.

My Tank.... 800L Marine system.

In true woodie style I even built the cabinet

I dont even like to think what It has cost me over the years, although I try to DIY most of it.....

Joel

JDub, that Moray looks positively Eeeeeeelated to be where he is.

Bleedin', what kind of plants are you growing. In the States I had several different Anubius lillies, a few Giant Echinodoras, which wouldn't stop splitting and several species of Crytocoryne. Couldn't buy Val to save yourself, but Water Hyacynth was everywhere. Oh and they sold "Australian Red Rock" for random numbers.

Clinton, they haven't even mentioned the cost of reef fish, corals, clams etc:eek: .
M'self, I want about twenty little Water Dragons, so I can play the scene in The Lost world where the guy buys it in the creek courtesy of the little jumping dudes.


Regards,

Rob

fish are for eating...

JDub- you bastard! what is this? My tanks bigger than yours

Mate that is one serious marine tank you have there.:eek: It looks very stable and healthy.
Give us a bit of a low down on the system you have running.

Flowboy I'll have to get back to you re plants, Ive go to pick up the toe rags. Whats Australian red rock? a plant or a type of rock?

Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb

Mate that is one serious marine tank you have there.:eek: It looks very stable and healthy.
Give us a bit of a low down on the system you have running.

Full write up/thread can been seen here on Reefing the Australian Way:
http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB2/viewto...7283&start=120


But here is VERY QUICK run down:

System Approx 3.5 years old
6x2x2 Reef system
110kgs Live rock
3 x 150 watt Metal Halides and 6 x 40w fluros for lighting of main tank, all on timers to simulate sunrise/sunset.
DIY hood to House lights and exhaust fan
DIY Cabinet (with additional pier under house so the floor doesnt fall in!)
30 x tank volume turnover per hour (thats about 21000 litres per hour)
Tunze and Seio powerheads
DIY Beckett protien skimmer
DIY refugium with Deep Sand Bed and Algae harvest (in cabinet)
Automatic Fresh Water Top up with Reverse Osmosis Water
Calcium reactor (CO2 driven)

Lots and Lots of species of coral including hard and soft varieties etc etc

Other Inhabitants: Blue Tangs, Flame Angelfish, Sea Star, Pair of Clownfish, 2 foot Snowflake moray Eel.... various other critters such as snails, the occasional crab, feather duster worms, brittle stars etc etc....

I collect 600L of Natural Sea water from the Coast every 4-5 months to use for water changes



Joel

BTW sorry for the hijack