Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: exciting new killie condo (killie kondo?) Summary: finally a commercial device for keeping lotsa killifish Keywords: tanks for the manatees Message-ID: <4089@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 10 May 88 06:37:10 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Distribution: alt Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 19 Though Ive been keeping killifish for quite a while, I'v always had a ragtag collection of small tanks and random filters for them. They've been sitting on steel shelves in a back room. Looks rather untidy. Last week I went out and bought a "killie condo" at Fish Heaven in Malibu, after craving it for weeks and weeks. This thing is a giant supertank that stands about 6 ft high and 5 or 6 ft wide, built entirely of molded acrylic, that has 28 individul tanks in it. The condo tank is plumbed for air hoses, overflow drains, and reverse-flow UG all with transparent acrylic pipes that re molded right into the body of the tank. You can't even see them. It's best to have just 3 killies in each tank (2 femails and 1 male), so if you want to keep a lot of killies and breed them, in the past you had to have a lot of tanks. This condo tank solves the floor space problem, looks nice enough to be in my living room, and cost only about as much as a used car. In a few months I'll post my impressions of how well it has worked out. -- Bill, you really have no shame whatsoever, do you? richard@gryphon.CTS.COM rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard