DIY Contest

Okay guys and gals get on your thinking caps and dig out the silicone, rock, PVC..........!

Our next contest is going to be a 3 month long contest so it will give you time to plan and test. Come up with an idea, can be decoration, mechanical, electrical anything you think up or have been wanting to try aquarium related. This my be the incentive to build that project that is in your head. Continued posts with process of your project or a if a smaller project one post. Pics, progress and outcome of the project is all you need. Please be original projects that you or you and a buddy are doing yourself. (so get those wives , hubbies, Fathers, Mothers, family, best friends to help out)

The winner will receive a $75 gift certificate to Home Depot. (if you win and there is no Home Depot close to you let us know and we will use a Hardware store closer to you)

If you know of someone who is not on our forum and doing a DIY project invite them to join FishAddicts and enter the contest.

The contest will end on Friday Sept 30th at 12 midnight and the winner will be announced on Wednesday Oct 5th.

Any comments or questions you can PM Fern or myself. This contest is for everyone except Administrators.

Not a chance for anyone else.. .Fluid Bed filter for 25.00... Watch out!.... Bill in Va.

Man this is a tough contest...lol I got like no imagination

Well since it's a do it yourself someone has to invent the "Master Betta"

And I'm entering this joke as one of my projects for the contest as "DIY fish joke"

Anything fishy is a go for LOL

Zeke, your fry holder is defiantly worth entering!

@ Joe!

LOL ok...I also am in the works of making another contraption just hope it works...

My pond is an example, so are the plant pots! Vixens painted background is another example!

Is there a limit to how many projects we can do?

no limit to number of projects.

Muahahahaha good lol

here's the start to one of my projects

Million things you can make with a jar like that!!! I cant wait to find out!

Here is the start of my aquarium entry for the DIY. I have a budget of $3200 so this is going to be a high end deal or a very expensive mistake.
In this picture you will see my investment to date is $250 (what I paid) for a fluval FX5. If you believe in ghosts that white dot is an "ORB" there is no white dot on that wall. The exercise machine has nothing to do with the tank, and at this point nothing to do with exercise, lol I use it to hang my shipping scale on.

Wow Joe..you're going make it or break it huh..lol the suspense is killer

On that note..here's another piece of my project

OOHHHHH!!!!! Competition! This is going to be an interesting contest to say the least.

I think my project is flubbing lol...may end up a whole different thing by the time I'm done

Let us know way it flubbed! A failure does not mean it cannot win this contest. 3 months to work on it.

I may do something just for fun!

WHAT IT IS: A fish trap




MATERIALS NEEDED:
1 Water Bottle
1 Gatorade Bottle
Something to cut the bottles with (I used a rotary tool)



WHAT TO DO:
1. Cut a round hole in the bottom of the Gatorade bottle that will just fit the water bottle into it.
2. Cut the top 3-4 inches off the water bottle and insert into Gatorade bottle.
3. Be sure it's a tight fit.

Great fish trap.
project #1 fish trap completed. Who's going to show project #2 completed?

Well my DIY is done providing it stops leaking lol. If it continues to leak it will become a totally different project

Here's the side view


The top view


The homemade filter


And the new inhabitant


For the container it was a craft holder container with the lid and I put a hole big enough for the airline for the filter and then holes for the zip ties to hold the filter to the lid. Have lots of silicon on it lol not really. The cave is a plastic cup with gravel siliconed to it. All I bought was the sand-$2 the heater-$14 and the fish $4 oh and the stupid silicon lol

Wow love it!

Thats fantastic!

Zeketaz,
I hate to say it but I would vote for your bottle over mine. You recycled two things just like me but you sure came out with a much better end result.
You say it might become something else, because it leaks? Do that!, Do that! You should save this project for the build a tank out of a household item contest.

I think I have the leaking under control. But may be making something else if the angels spawn and I get babies And the next thing I make will be completely different than the tank thing I just made well I think it will be lol