MereB
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It starts...
We have a few of the bags of gravel in various sizes. Thank you Spotlight for having the mesh I needed at $4.00 a meter x 3.5m
and I used about 50kg of the gravel in all which cost me $20. So, so far we're up to $34 roud:
Hubby came though and we have HEAPS (20-30L) of bio-balls which float and while the looked to be big enough to not be a swallowing hazard I didn't want to risk it so bagged them up as well. I didn't pay for these so my total stays the same. You could purchase some or omit them in favor of more rock or gravel but they add a lot of surface area to the inbuilt filter.
One Under gravel filter kit. I think this one worked out to cover just short of 2 square feet but you can go with whatever size would suit you. NOTE: Do NOT leave this thing out on the floor for 3 days where your children can get it. We spent a good half hour locating 2 missing pcs. of the base the adapter that the pipe goes into to attach it to the base and the pipes themselves This one was $25 which brings me up to $59
Some PVC Storm water pipe (90mm) cut into lengths with caps on one end that cost me $28 all up. Cant risk them pushing out behind the pipe and getting tangled in netting etc. Plus a few small holes drilled in the bottom of each pipe at the capped end to allow water to flow into it and flush out anything an axie might leave in there.
Plus one surprise that you will just have to wait to see ($10.98) for a new total of $97.98
Other miscellaneous items I've needed that I forgot to take pics of
From good old Bunnings or any good hardware superstore ~ A roll of 20mm silicone tubing for plumbing up the filter ($6). 1 straight length of 20mm silicone pipe to go into the base of the undergravel and up to the top of the tank ($4), 1 20kg bag of washed white sand from the cement/brickies section ($4.98) and finally from a local-ish landscape supplies place 30 larger bits of rock and another 20 smaller bits that they charged us $20 for. Not sure the washing I had to do after the 3 boys spent 15 mins playing in an enormous muddy puddle in the soils yard was quite worth it Bringing us finally to a total spend excluding the cost of the tank and filter rounded to the nearest dollar ~ $133 I do still need to find a couple of nice bits of driftwood and stock it with moss and plants.
On to the build...
...in the next post
We have a few of the bags of gravel in various sizes. Thank you Spotlight for having the mesh I needed at $4.00 a meter x 3.5m
and I used about 50kg of the gravel in all which cost me $20. So, so far we're up to $34 roud:
Hubby came though and we have HEAPS (20-30L) of bio-balls which float
and while the looked to be big enough to not be a swallowing hazard I didn't want to risk it so bagged them up as well. I didn't pay for these so my total stays the same. You could purchase some or omit them in favor of more rock or gravel but they add a lot of surface area to the inbuilt filter.
One Under gravel filter kit. I think this one worked out to cover just short of 2 square feet but you can go with whatever size would suit you. NOTE: Do NOT leave this thing out on the floor for 3 days where your children can get it. We spent a good half hour locating 2 missing pcs. of the base the adapter that the pipe goes into to attach it to the base and the pipes themselves
This one was $25 which brings me up to $59
Some PVC Storm water pipe (90mm) cut into lengths with caps on one end that cost me $28 all up. Cant risk them pushing out behind the pipe and getting tangled in netting etc. Plus a few small holes drilled in the bottom of each pipe at the capped end to allow water to flow into it and flush out anything an axie might leave in there.
Plus one surprise that you will just have to wait to see
($10.98) for a new total of $97.98
Other miscellaneous items I've needed that I forgot to take pics of
From good old Bunnings or any good hardware superstore ~ A roll of 20mm silicone tubing for plumbing up the filter ($6). 1 straight length of 20mm silicone pipe to go into the base of the undergravel and up to the top of the tank ($4), 1 20kg bag of washed white sand from the cement/brickies section ($4.98) and finally from a local-ish landscape supplies place 30 larger bits of rock and another 20 smaller bits that they charged us $20 for. Not sure the washing I had to do after the 3 boys spent 15 mins playing in an enormous muddy puddle in the soils yard was quite worth it
Bringing us finally to a total spend excluding the cost of the tank and filter rounded to the nearest dollar ~ $133 I do still need to find a couple of nice bits of driftwood and stock it with moss and plants.On to the build...
...in the next post
