Photo: Gomez's new £4.50 tank!

[dazkeirle]

I wasn't aware of that, and so consider myself told.

My theorising is not anything against experience.

 

[tomkeogh]

It is not really the price of this tank that bothers me, as it is second hand it is believable. But after looking at his web site and just finding out he has two shops this is his living if it was a hobby I could understand but as a business it does not make sense, even with cost of raw glass with other materials and man hours etc he can't even be making £10 profit, and tanks are not really things you can mass produce by hand.

I just made a 4 footer for a friend and used 2 tubes of silicone at £7.99 wholesale price and I did small clean joints...God know's how many tubes they use on each tank!

As your tank is 10mm I am not inclined to doubt it's quality, the excess silicone is just an eye saw if you see it that way of course.

I have e-mailed the company hopefully they will answer all my questions!

Dragonlady:will you be my mummy?

 

[ted22]

No need to worry bout the table guys (providing it lasts another couple of days) ive got a tube steel jobby turning up tuesday! Tom any luck getting hold of Richard the fishtank man about his prices haha? I agree it seems as though he's doing it as a hobby as he cant be making anything did you see the prices of his frozen food? a pack of frozen bloodworms are only £1 the same ones used to cost me £2.50-£3.00 in the places i used to get em!

I know this sounds strange coz i thought it would be easier to keep a larger tank cool but im up 3degrees from my previous tank using the same cooling method im still a 19deg so not too worried but just seems strange maybe its this scorching weather we're having!

 

[tomkeogh]

Yeah after talking to him and getting a couple quotes, when it comes to larger tanks they are not very cheap at all, they just make all there profit on larger full aquariums.

Ted I am also having cooling problems it is just so humid we need a rain storm.