Comments on: Fishtank Friday: Fish Overpass

By: Elijah

Elijah — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:47:00 +0000

lol just kidding. I think that its just a matter of convinience and laziness rather than lack of intelegence. With technology these days grammer is just not as important. And peerpresure what has Britain done for the world.

By: Elijah

Elijah — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:34:00 +0000

im from Alabama n that ther is just bout right. Everyone here lives in a trailer and is married to their cousin. but ya cant blame us,ya see its all the inbreedin’,its made us right out retarded.

By: Stephanie GeNeVa

Stephanie GeNeVa — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:11:00 +0000

You go Lauren! Tell them! PS: I want this in my house! Where are the blueprints?!

By: sean

sean — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:35:00 +0000

Your “You’re” should have a period after it. Your “English” should not be capitalized. Your “zombies” should not be able to run so fast.

By: Alex Saringer

Alex Saringer — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:44:05 +0000

“Your” should be “You're”
“english” and “americans” should be capitalized.
You might want to learn to speak English yourself before you go criticizing others. I guess it wasn't your turn with the brain cell when you wrote this comment.

By: Kati Clary

Kati Clary — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:02:33 +0000

Your an idiot, learn to speak english before you make fun of americans. Fuckin stupid ass.

By: Jillian Imler

Jillian Imler — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:22:54 +0000

The only thing I would be worried about is having labyrinth fish (that have a lung-like breathing system) not be able to get to the surface for air while they are in the tube. Bettas are labyrinth fish, as are most gouramis. The cichlids they have in there should be good to go though. This isn't a cruel system, those of you that say the pressure changes would hurt them have obviously never been scuva diving. The pressure would be less in the tubes as they have less water pressure above them, however, the height is not a great enough difference to really make a significant change in air pressure around them. When you stand on a ladder can you really sense the change in air pressure? They will be quite alright. As far as if the pump goes out, I can see the possiblity of the water overflowing the tanks, but I'm sure they made a safegaurd against that. I really am not sure about the physics about that so Lauren Cooper might be right about that. I say the tank is safe and having worked around fish for the better part of ten years, I am big on giving fish the ideal environment. I wouldn't consider it a natural environment, but I would say it's not harmful.

By: Mare de Lira

Mare de Lira — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:43:18 +0000

cool !!! but the tanks should be waaay bigger !

By: Lauren Cooper

Lauren Cooper — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:19:18 +0000

Physics- as long as the tube is airtight and the water level of the two tanks is equal (equal distance above the ground) there will be no water flow between tanks, and so of course no overflow. If you don't believe me, go get two bowls of water and a plastic tube and try it yourself morons. The comment in the article about the pump is simply a description of how they filled the acrylic tube portion of the tank the first time they set it up.

Cruelty: All you idiots who think this is cruel, have you ever noticed that in the wild fish live in underwater cave complexes, or swim through narrow sections in rock or coral to get to another location? This is a completely normal behavior and the fish are not suffering as a result. If you feed the fish in a certain area of the tank they learn that that is where they are normally fed and will anticipate food there. You could alternate ends I suppose to get the fish to swim through the tank more.

Cleaning: yeah, this would be a bitch

By: mayer501

mayer501 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:51:12 +0000

Interesting idea, though that pump on top would require perfect maintenance as failure, even a marginal loss of vacuum pressure, would quickly remind the owner of water pressure by easily overflowing those tiny tanks, hopefully there is some kind of fail safe.

Oh… and cleaning algae is bad enough in a small 5 gallon fish tank w/o a complicated vacuum pump/ fishy overpass. I hope the filters are powerful and reliable too… a water change on that thing would take an excruciatingly long time.

Sorry to be a buzzkill, but this just seems like a bad idea to me and the place going out of business does little to change my mind, a few ground level aquariums would be nearly as nice, cheaper, and could even have a tube connecting them w/o the microscopic margin for error.