"Homemade" Tank tools and useful household items..

[Wy Renegade]

An old plastic water bottle, with the lid cut off an inverted makes a great, inexpensive fish trap;


Plastic zip ties work great for holding LR in position;

A small plastic cup with slots cut in the side works great for attaching unattached mushrooms like ricordia;

A pair of wire strippers makes a great tool for fragging a small section of flesh off the bottom of a newly cut gorgonian frag. Makes gluing the frag much easier.

 

[fsu1dolfan]

Hey Wy - Love the zip tie idea with the live rock - Any issues with them being in the tank over time?

 

[Wy Renegade]

Hey Wy - Love the zip tie idea with the live rock - Any issues with them being in the tank over time?

Nope, they actually purple up with coralline growth and kind of disappear into the background.

 

[fsu1dolfan]

Also not sure if it is possible but there are really a lot of great ideas here for the DIY forum as a sticky...anyway a mod could clean up and put all on first post??

 

[tclipse]

Agreed, would love to see this stickied... if people kept adding to it over a few months/years I'm sure pretty much everyone would find something they hadn't thought of yet.

 

[Wy Renegade]

Added it to the forum index here in the General Interest forum.

 

[fsu1dolfan]

Thanks WY - Easy finding for later!