Water Pumps?

[HerpDerp]

Okay, so what size tubing works with a pump like that? My LFS has a lot of different size tubes so I should be able to find the right size... so long as I know what size that is LOL.

Also, I decided instead of a hard plastic material for my river that I'm going to use the substrate to create a small trench and line it with plastic, and then cover it with rocks and moss on the edges. Any suggestions on a good safe plastic to use? I'm assuming anything vinyl is a big no-no? I saw somewhere people use painters plastic (to cover furniture) but I only need a little bit! Maybe a PEVA shower curtain?

[deranged chipmunk]

the reptiflo uses 12mm or 7/16" tubing. a shower curtain would work, if all else fails, you can hit up a garden center that sells pond supplies. many places like that sell pond liner by the foot. they may even have some scraps laying around to give you.

[deranged chipmunk]

i keep meaning to ask you, how is zoidberg doing?

[HerpDerp]

Zoidberg is doing great, Bill. He has some new tank mates. I had some silver-tipped tetras in there that didn't do go great with the lower temp of the tank (72ish) and he picked off three of the five when they were weak. So I found a safer tank for the remaining two tetras and a female guppy (I had three babies left, two turned out to be male). So now I have the two male feeders, two endlers and two fancy guppies... Oh and a BN pleco. The duckweed almost completely died, but it's slowly recovering AND I got some awesome spirodela at the expo. I plan on putting some of that in my vivarium when it's complete .

[deranged chipmunk]

very cool. glad to hear he is doing well. and exactly how did you manage to kill duckweed? that stuff is almost impossible to kill! lol

[HerpDerp]

very cool. glad to hear he is doing well. and exactly how did you manage to kill duckweed? that stuff is almost impossible to kill! lol

You know, I have no idea! It just started turning white and dying. Funny thing is, there's no way there wasn't enough nutrients since I had a big of algae problem (hence the pleco). But I think it may have to do with the cooler water maybe? And the fact that the crayfish was climbing on top of one of the decorations and stretching for all he was worth to snag bits of the duckweed LOL. But it's starting to come back. Zoidberg has also been keeping the snails under control. I have a lot of tiny babies but they never seem to get any bigger hehe. Unfortunately, I don't expect Zoidberg to live beyond this summer. I did some research and I'm guessing I found him during his second summer and they usually die at he end of their third summer. But hopefully life in captivity will change that.