Hi, I've been too busy to reply of late. After a long wait I got a
Betta five foot tank which is huge. I realy wanted a four foot one
but when this came up I went for it. I've just finished putting it
together, from a chinese instruction booklet. It is very short on
words and diagrams. For example, if you follow the drawings and try
to build it one side at a time you just can't do it! You have to put
the sides together and then slot them into the base. A day of
frustrating putting together and taking apart and putting it together
again. Still it is finished now. Also I got my five foot jewel
back from the shop where it was being modified. I had just arranged
to collect it when the Betta turned up.

I will make the Betta a tropical marine tank. I've got a small one
full of live rock and it is fascinating watching the crabs and
cushion stars and worms and other "hitch hikers". Who needs fish.
The other tank I will make a coldwater marine one. I was in
Hampshire recently and using an inverter I was able to use an air
pump to bring back some snakelocks, dahlia and daisy anemones. They
were still on the same beaches that I found them back in the 1960's.

Dick