>From: Mark <nanfa_at_jonahsaquarium.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: NANFA-- Building cheap fish containers
>Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 15:38:22 -0400
>
>I haven't read the list today, so I don't know if I'm missing anything
>recent, but I want to run this by all these smart and creative people while
>I'm thinking about it:
>
>I set up a kiddie pool last night I had bought earlier to use as a backyard
>fish container. It's a pastic canvas model with steel pipe supports.
>Looks like it was made in Brazil. I'm going to look into the cost of
>replicating this design with steel electical conduit and fittings, if I can
>find the pieces I need. Then throw some cheap liner material over it. I
>want to try this as a design for a raceway/mini-riffle for breeding darters
>and madtoms. Any good ideas for corner fittings to assemble lengths of
>steel conduit pipe into a box-shaped frame? I suppose iron plumbing pipe
>would work, but it has to be much more expensive than the conduit. I need
>a corner fitting that will accept conduit pipe at 90 degrees in three
>directions. In other words, two pipes for the horizontal supports and one
>pipe for the vertical support (and one of these assemblies for each corner
>of the pool). Alternatively, I could use 90 degree couplings, and then use
>"T" couplings nearby for the verticals. Does that make sense? Any ideas
>about what I can use for these couplings? Maybe these are common parts and
>I just need to go to the hardware store? Thanks!
>--
>Mark
>Ohio
>USA
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