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chennes
09-13-2002, 08:54 PM
Has anyone out there built a background for their tank? I ran across this article and the background looks great!

http://hem.passagen.se/mipcom/cichlids/plastbak_e.html

Chris
Boilermaker
09-13-2002, 10:04 PM
Great article Chennes, but where are you gonna find the rock?
I guess that means your gonna have to come out here for a visit :)
CichlidPete
09-13-2002, 10:10 PM
Yeah or we can all take pics of our best rock and he can pick the winner :)
Boilermaker
09-13-2002, 10:35 PM
I think you would win that one hands down living on an island :)
Unless Chennes wants redrock.
CichlidPete
09-14-2002, 04:54 AM
Ahh I had my rock pic ready to go and all...

[img:32fc1b537e]http://www.cichlidgallery.com/albums/PetesPetPics/dad_vicki.sized.jpg[/img:32fc1b537e]

Besides that, I thought there used to be a few members from AZ, Now they have ROCKS. A section of the grand Canyon would be cool!
SGypsyMermaid
09-14-2002, 09:56 AM
great rocks, pete! who's that adorable little mermaid?
chennes
09-14-2002, 10:04 AM
[quote:d547a7843c="Boilermaker"]Great article Chennes, but where are you gonna find the rock?
I guess that means your gonna have to come out here for a visit :)[/quote:d547a7843c]
Hey, now! :rofl:

We have some rock here in Iowa! There must be [i:d547a7843c]at least[/i:d547a7843c] 3 lakes here! They have some rock! :)

(I'm actually from Minnesota - plenty of rock up north there!)

Chris
Beaker
09-15-2002, 12:07 PM
I think my wife would push me off the edge if I turned a trip to the Grand Canyon into something that had to do with fish!
SGypsyMermaid
09-27-2002, 07:56 PM
take a look at this one!

http://www.duboisi.com/diy/BNdiygrotto/bndiygrotto.htm
chennes
09-27-2002, 08:49 PM
That one's OK, but I think it came out too flat. I want to try something with more three-dimensionality. Maybe a base like that, but with extra foam pieces glued on randomly to the drainpipes before the rocks are attached.

Chris
CichlidPete
09-28-2002, 08:23 AM
[quote:3230b2ceb6="SGypsyMermaid"]great rocks, pete! who's that adorable little mermaid?[/quote:3230b2ceb6]

SGM-sorry I lost track of this thread somehow and it just came back with the new post to it. My daughter Vicki, (6 y.o. at the time.)
SGypsyMermaid
09-28-2002, 09:28 AM
she's adorable--does she like the fish? have her own tank?
Boilermaker
09-29-2002, 11:45 PM
[quote:67f87c7949="chennes"][quote:67f87c7949="Boilermaker"]Great article Chennes, but where are you gonna find the rock?
I guess that means your gonna have to come out here for a visit :)[/quote:67f87c7949]
Hey, now! :rofl:

We have some rock here in Iowa! There must be [i:67f87c7949]at least[/i:67f87c7949] 3 lakes here! They have some rock! :)

(I'm actually from Minnesota - plenty of rock up north there!)

Chris[/quote:67f87c7949]

lol. Maybe two lakes in Iowa :P . Do you get teased on that accent?
I know I still get it now and again especially when I say house or any word with an ou in it :wink:
CichlidPete
09-30-2002, 02:21 PM
[quote:1ee245d56d="SGypsyMermaid"]she's adorable--does she like the fish? have her own tank?[/quote:1ee245d56d]

Thanks. She is actually the one that got me back into fish after like 10 years. Set her up a Eclipse 12 with guppies and all. Then a few months later I inherited the tank when she lost interest. Then of course the 12 wasn't big enough for cichlids and the "need another tank spiral" started. :)

She still likes all the fish, just not the work involved.