You need to make sure the glass that will be on the bottom, which used to be the front glass panel, will actually be able to absorb all the pressure of the volume of water without any problems. I would make a new tank instead of trying to modify it. I would sell it and add money to get the thicker glass for the new tank. It's always better to be safe than sorry and to have a disaster just to ruin your beautiful home. The braces on the bottom of the tank will not support the pressure of the water volume. It would just try to hold the glasses together. Rimless tanks always need lot's of glass thickness. All my new wild 10 Altums came alive and doing well!! I'm so excited. What angels are you going to have this time?? Nice Christmas tree. Merry Christmas!!!
Thanks Alex. Happy Christmas to you too! And congratulations with new Altums. Hope you will make a video of them sometime. Also, thanks for suggestions on fishtank build. I think it makes a lot of sense and I was already quite concerned that glass thickness is insufficient for a tank of that size. I've decided to turn it into a paludarium, I'll be making a video on it soon
@@tropicalfishhub I am working hard to feed the Altums as much as I can with different types of food several times a day and changing water at least twice a week, about 13%. They are very shy and basically impossible to make a video right now because they hide behind the plants I have in the system. They are indeed wild fish. They love live brine shrimp, which I used just to open their appetite in the beginning and started to offer what I believe that are more nutritional foods, like frozen mysis shrimp and frozen blood worms. The package of the blood worms say it is sterilized, so I went for it. I tried also frozen daphnia, but I don't think they care much for that. I offered the dry foods you recommended, like the Vibra Bites and Tetra Min, but they ignored because they re not ready yet. Thank you so much for all the tips in this channel. I've heard mosquito larvae is very important for juveniles to be able to develop properly and will try to get some. The idea of paludarium sounds much safer for that tank now. I'm sure it will be amazing, but I still hope you will also make a new Angel fish tank too!!!! Ha ha! All the best!!
@@Alex_Correa Hope the altums will get settled soon. If you have access to live blackworms that should help them to come out more and feed more actively. If they are juveniles, they'd certainly need a few high protein feeds per day to grow and develop properly
@@tropicalfishhub I was thinking about feeding mosquito larvae, but found a paper on Pterophyllum scalare showing that it isn't that great for their guts. They must feed on other organisms in the wild as the primary source of protein, not mosquito larvae. My altums are starting to wonder more around the tank. They are finally eating some flakes and the Vibra Bites that you recommended! I'm keeping them well fed with frozen blood worms and mysis as the main diet. They still don't care at all for freeze dried black worms. I'm making RO water and changing as much as I can, like 10-20% twice a week. I also have some Corydoras habrosus and Sturinoma panamense in the system right now and the altums also like to taste the wafers I bought for them. Lovely!!!!!! Please keep us posted about your new angels, I hope. What is the species you are planning to have this time? Or perhaps you won't have them anymore because you changed your mind about the tank in the video, for a paludarium? Happy New Year!
