biorbs?

[pinky]

i was just wondering if anyone has any knowledge of these tanks.

i have not had a tank for a number of years and the wife has decided she wants one,the biorbs look like a good option for ease of looking after but are they any good?

[Elton]

Are these those self-contained little things, where you just have one fish?

[pinky]

no there done to the design of the old goldfish bowl but hold about 60 ltrs of water and have all the replacable filters and pumps up the centre.also have lights and heaters.

[Moody]

Have a look at these links (same sites).

I prefer the BiUbe my self.

Id stay away from putting gold fish in there, they are far to messy for a tank like that an itl be a nightmere to clean up. Id persanaly go for a nice shoal of white cloud mountain minnows, they look nice when they fill out, easy to keep, they tolerate most water conditions, easy to breed cleaner than most fish and are proberbly more active than a lonly gold fish.

You may beable to add a phew Cardinia Japonica (amano shrimp) good alge eaters provding the tank doesnt get to cold.

 

As for the plants try http://www.tropica.com/default.asp look at the plant listing and see what the temperature preferences of the plants are.

Id go with the minnows some bog wood with Vallisneria spiralis ( straight vallisneria) dotted around the middle part of the BiUbe and on the bogg wood id grow Microsorium pteropus (Java fern) itl only grow slowly but thats no bad thing.

I do a 20% water change every week to keep good water quality which helps keep algee at bay, some may say 20% a week is to much but it works for me.

 

 

http://www.koivision.co.uk/acatalog/biUbe_...l_Aquarium.html

 

http://www.koivision.co.uk/acatalog/biOrb_...b_Aquarium.html

 

Hope iv helped any more questions just ask.