got an Idea!

[Pele]

Suppose you have one of those office water coolers.
Suppose you have a hacksaw
suppose you have the stuff you need for an aquarium (gravel, conditioner, heater, filter) without the aquarium.
Well then do this...

1: Saw of the top of the water cooler and invert the cap. you know have a lid for your aquarium.
2:set it up as you normally would an aquarium, add fish
3: when you need to change the water, just flip the valve! no siphon required!
Viola! you have yourself a cheap, fast, 5-gallon aquarium, with a built in siphon!
Are there any problems with this idea? if so, please post them

[Aeonflame]

Could work.. not much horizontal space though

[Crispy]

Filtration would be tricky since the water jug is round. Also, it would be much cheaper to buy a 5g tank than to buy a water cooler. :ssmile:

[gadget228]

Won't work unless you seal the water bottle to the water cooler so water won't run out around the bottle where it sits in the cooler, when you cut the water bottle to make your lid your breaking the vacuum of the bottle and your water is going to overfill the reservoir of the cooler and run everywhere.

[Scrup]

Won't work unless you seal the water bottle to the water cooler so water won't run out around the bottle where it sits in the cooler, when you cut the water bottle to make your lid your breaking the vacuum of the bottle and your water is going to overfill the reservoir of the cooler and run everywhere.

beat me to it..lol

that's why they bubble when you are emptying them, they keep the vacuum. you would have to make the lid airtight.

[Pele]

beat me to it..lol

that's why they bubble when you are emptying them, they keep the vacuum. you would have to make the lid airtight.
YOU WIN AGAIN, PHYSICS!

[Lab_Rat]

YOU WIN AGAIN, PHYSICS!

Physics always wins...:hmm3grin2orange:

[souly]

Blasted physics!

[Scrup]

its the law...cant beat it.

[Aeonflame]

I beat physics every day when I fly off my balcony.
Now I just have to figure out how not to fly straight to the ground.

[souly]

You could grow wings and go through the hollowifcation of your bones! But then we just be letting physics win again.

[lobsternoob]

I made an aquarium from a water cooler when I was younger because my dads office was throwing it away. It was horrible, and as people said yes it has to be capped at the bottom, so the valve is gonna be inoperable anyway. It's really not worth trying because aside from the novelty it just makes a really cruddy aquarium. I threw mine away after like a month or two. Even if you could manage to seal it, or just not cut the top at all so the valve does work, you have the problems of filtration, aeration, and being able to clean the bottle.

[Lab_Rat]

I beat physics every day when I fly off my balcony.
Now I just have to figure out how not to fly straight to the ground.

Sounds like physics beats you...:hmm3grin2orange:

[Pele]

I beat physics every day when I fly off my balcony.
Now I just have to figure out how not to fly straight to the ground.
There is an art, they say, or rather a nack to flying. The art lies in knowing how to throw your self at the ground with all your weight and miss. The first part is easy, all that it requires is your ability to throw your self at the ground with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that its going to hurt.
That is, its going to hurt if you fail to miss it. Clearly it the second part, the missing, that contains the nack. You see, you have to miss accidently. No point in trying to miss the ground as youll always fail. You have to be distracted a split second before you land

[bearweasel]

Unless you are a helicopter, in which case you simply make enough noise and chaos and basically throw a mechanical temper tantrum, at which point the earth rejects you, and suddenly you're flying. You cannot trust the satanic spawn of a threshing machine and a lawn mower.

[lobsternoob]

You cannot trust the satanic spawn of a threshing machine and a lawn mower.

OMG I got a cramp from laughing from that!

[Lab_Rat]

Unless you are a helicopter, in which case you simply make enough noise and chaos and basically throw a mechanical temper tantrum, at which point the earth rejects you, and suddenly you're flying. You cannot trust the satanic spawn of a threshing machine and a lawn mower.

Actually, I've seen Pele do this first hand...it's pretty impressive...

[gadget228]

There is an art, they say, or rather a nack to flying. The art lies in knowing how to throw your self at the ground with all your weight and miss. The first part is easy, all that it requires is your ability to throw your self at the ground with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that its going to hurt.
That is, its going to hurt if you fail to miss it. Clearly it the second part, the missing, that contains the nack. You see, you have to miss accidently. No point in trying to miss the ground as youll always fail. You have to be distracted a split second before you land

HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy ?

[Pele]

:19: HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy ?
Totally