Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

[jroescher]

So what non-aquarium items do you use?

Trash can for water mixing and changing.

Pantyhose for filtersocks.

Pickling lime for Kalk.

[markgsa]

razor blade?

[jroescher]

or credit card.

play sand for aragonite.

milk jug for skimmer waste collector

[gjuarez]

rubbermaid for sump

[Ping]

PVC pipe, garden hose wyes. Orange juice container (very strong) and I.V. tubing, for dripping kalk or buffer. Turkey baster for feeding or picking something up. Wooden fondu or shish kabob sticks for feeding or reaching into the tank. Plant grow lightbulb in a fuge light strip. Hemostats. Mini shop/ woodworking plastic spring clamps for holding a bag in the sump when aclimating. Special coffe cup for thawing food. Zip ties, duct tape and bailing wire. :lol I am constantly looking at what I can use for the aquarium when I am in a store.

[jroescher]

mousepads to pad the pumps

[motohead]

now that i ponder that question,absolutely nothing.

[brewercm]

Womens hair bands, the small round bunge type. I use these for holding about everything instead of rubberbands, started initially using for holding fishing line on the spools between fills. These will last much longer that rubberband that get brittle after a while. Can't use them in the water though becauas they have a small metal piece that hold them together.

[brewercm]

I was afraid they may have something added to them I wouldn't want in the water if they were the tangle free ones.
Have you used them?

Wire zip ties for underwater clamps.

[jroescher]

now that i ponder that question,absolutely nothing.


That sounds expensive.
I started this post looking for ideas for alternatives. Seems that if it is sold as aquarium supplies, the price is jacked up so high.

[shellback]

Calcium Carbonate from a feed supplier, sunhutch and ram puppy sorry I didn't get back to you on this. useing it now in my tank my tiger shrimp is in heaven.

[Henry]

nori from asian food mart,

[dwdenny]

[quote="Ping"] Zip ties, duct tape and bailing wire.[quote]

If that wont fix it nothing will!!!! :lol

[BadPig]

Plastic pot scrubbers and army men instead of using bio balls. :blush

[LoneStar]

not sure if its unique but a Brute 37 gallon trash can for my ro storage :mellow

[blueboy]

a big syringe attached to a piece of rigid air tubing makes a great target feeder for under a dollar. just attach it with a short piece of flexible tubing. it can also be used for picking things up off the bottom without totally going swimming.

[pilot_bell777]

I took a turkey INJECTOR that looks like a big syringe that inject turkeys with flavor...cut the end off so it was hollow on the end instead of the side, put a peice of air tubing over that and then put a peice of riggid tubbuing inside that small peice of air tubing so I had a wand of sort that I can move around and spot feed things.....

Worked really good...........and was big enough for krill.

bilge pump float switch for auto top off.....
Playground sand....
Lime stone rock that I picked up from the park and washed for base rock

[LoneStar]

heres kinda a reverse one.... i use a empty 200gal mix of IO for a foot stool :)

[pilot_bell777]

Hey....you put a good seat cusion on them and they make killer hunting stools!

Take a thin stirofoam ice chest adn break it to line the inside and you have a good ice chest...seat! LOL