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Suzie-Q wrote,
((Anyone who says, "Get rid of the cats," will be
considered an idiot and ignored. ;-) ))

Well - - - I'm an idiot, and going to be ignored, so I need not say it.
Where I come from, if it's last name is snake, it's killed.
..............
Frank

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In article ,
Mr. Gardener wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:23:13 GMT, Suzie-Q
wrote:

What do you think about putting a bunch of those "super sliders" on
the bottom of the stand? You know - those [teflon] things that are
supposed to make furniture effortless to move. There are some that are
only about an inch wide, and some that are larger, of course.

You see, I have cats that like to find snakes and things out in the
backyard, then bring them in the house (alive) and then lose them
behind a piece of furniture. I often find live (or dead) creatures
in my house. I'd like to be able to get behind the fishtank if I
smell some rotting corpse in my house and it's coming from behind
the fishtank/stand!

The super sliders sound a lot safer.

No they dont, they sound like a disaster waitng to happen. Pull. Not moving.
Ugh. Pull a bit harder, still not moving pull harder, stiction finally overcome
it finall moves, but now, pulling as hard as you had to to overcome stiction
it now accelerates far to quickly and either sloshes about or just falls over.

Proper wheels on a sturdy (probably homebuilt and overengineered) stand/cabinet
would be far far safer.

Of course if this is just to fish out dead things wouldn't it be easier to
just put the thing 8" from the wall or something so it's possible to reach behind?

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Richard Sexton wrote:

Of course if this is just to fish out dead things wouldn't it be easier to
just put the thing 8" from the wall or something so it's possible to reach behind?


That's so twentieth century.

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In article ,
Pete Becker wrote:
Richard Sexton wrote:

Of course if this is just to fish out dead things wouldn't it be easier to
just put the thing 8" from the wall or something so it's possible to reach behind?


That's so twentieth century.

More like eighteenth century. I figure it's what the Shakers would do.

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:53:36 +0000 (UTC),
(Richard Sexton) wrote:

In article ,
Mr. Gardener wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:23:13 GMT, Suzie-Q
wrote:

What do you think about putting a bunch of those "super sliders" on
the bottom of the stand? You know - those [teflon] things that are
supposed to make furniture effortless to move. There are some that are
only about an inch wide, and some that are larger, of course.

You see, I have cats that like to find snakes and things out in the
backyard, then bring them in the house (alive) and then lose them
behind a piece of furniture. I often find live (or dead) creatures
in my house. I'd like to be able to get behind the fishtank if I
smell some rotting corpse in my house and it's coming from behind
the fishtank/stand!

The super sliders sound a lot safer.

No they dont, they sound like a disaster waitng to happen. Pull. Not moving.
Ugh. Pull a bit harder, still not moving pull harder, stiction finally overcome
it finall moves, but now, pulling as hard as you had to to overcome stiction
it now accelerates far to quickly and either sloshes about or just falls over.

Yes, they do.
Pull. Not moving.
Ugh. Wheels not turning. Pull a bit harder, still not moving pull
harder, stiction finally overcome it finally moves, the wheels begin
turning, but now, pulling as hard as you had to
overcome stiction it now accelerates far too quickly, and your
neighbor walks in the front door, sees this rolling thunder of water
and fish chugging toward her, steps aside and out the door rolls
the monster tank, into the road, down the hill, while your pizza and
beer filled helpers run willy nilly after it like a scene from The
Three Stooges . . . .

-- Mister Gardener

Wheels on the aquarium stand?
 

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:23:13 GMT, Suzie-Q
wrote:

You see, I have cats that like to find snakes and things out in the
backyard, then bring them in the house (alive) and then lose them
behind a piece of furniture. I often find live (or dead) creatures
in my house. I'd like to be able to get behind the fishtank if I
smell some rotting corpse in my house and it's coming from behind
the fishtank/stand!

Train your cats. Mine bring home birds and squirrel skins and deposit
them neatly in my daughter's slippers. At her bedside. The perfect
definition of starting one's day on the wrong foot. Or getting out of
bed on the wrong side. Depends.

-- Mister Gardener

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:13:24 +0000 (UTC),
(Richard Sexton) wrote:

In article ,
Pete Becker wrote:
Richard Sexton wrote:

Of course if this is just to fish out dead things wouldn't it be easier to
just put the thing 8" from the wall or something so it's possible to reach behind?


That's so twentieth century.

More like eighteenth century. I figure it's what the Shakers would do.

The Shakers would have enough foresight and common sense to build a
drawer or cabinet doors at the bottom of the stand so that they could
reach back under by removing the drawer or opening the doors. And they
would have added only the minimum trim required to make it functional
yet discrete. And they would sing and jump for joy. And it would be
good and right and proper.

-- Mister Gardener

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"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
...
.............. but now, pulling as hard as you had to
overcome stiction it now accelerates far too quickly, and your
neighbor walks in the front door, sees this rolling thunder of water
and fish chugging toward her, steps aside and out the door rolls
the monster tank, into the road, down the hill, while your pizza and
beer filled helpers run willy nilly after it like a scene from The
Three Stooges . . . .
==========================
ROFLMAO!!!!! LOL..... :-D How do you think this stuff up? LOL!!!

When I move anything larger than a 20g tank I just go ahead and remove all
the water, gravel and plants. It gets so stirred up and disgusting when
being moved I would rather just redo the tank then try and move it by
draining it down. Then I have a nice clean tank to start all over with.

Of course a filter has been seeding on another tank ready to be moved to the
newly moved, newly cleaned tank.
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Aquariums since 1952
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:23:13 GMT, Suzie-Q wrote:
I often find live (or dead) creatures
in my house. I'd like to be able to get behind the fishtank if I
smell some rotting corpse in my house and it's coming from behind
the fishtank/stand!

I have the same issue - rats and mice hiding behind the fish
cabinet and even inside it using the holes I cut for the pipes.
And filter floss makes a lovely nest.

The solution was to block every gap - around the hoses but also
along the edge between cabinet and wall - with steel wool.
Critters don't like getting past that.

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In article ,
Mr. Gardener wrote:

- On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:23:13 GMT, Suzie-Q
- wrote:
-
- What do you think about putting a bunch of those "super sliders" on
- the bottom of the stand? You know - those [teflon] things that are
- supposed to make furniture effortless to move. There are some that are
- only about an inch wide, and some that are larger, of course.
-
- You see, I have cats that like to find snakes and things out in the
- backyard, then bring them in the house (alive) and then lose them
- behind a piece of furniture. I often find live (or dead) creatures
- in my house. I'd like to be able to get behind the fishtank if I
- smell some rotting corpse in my house and it's coming from behind
- the fishtank/stand!
-
- The super sliders sound a lot safer.
-
- ((Anyone who says, "Get rid of the cats," will be considered an
- idiot and ignored. ;-) ))
-
- I wasn't going to say that. I was simply going to suggest that you
- feed the cats. We've tried it at our house and it works wonders.
-
- -- Mister Gardener

Cats don't eat the snakes/mice/toads/lizards/geckos/etc. that they bring
home. They just play with them until they die behind the fishtank and stink
up the house.
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