Beaslbob, I think I have 4 or 5 diatom filters in various stages of rust and disassembly. A few Silent Giants also along with some Dynaflo HOB filters.
I didn't have a tank in Viet Nam. I also didn't have under ware in Viet Nam so that wasn't an issue. Besides I flew a few times a week and they wouldn't let me carry it in the helicopter. I am also sure the constant rain would cause me to keep adding salt and the nearest electricity for the power heads was in a different country so the extension cord would have been uncannily long. I wouldn't have had a problem feeding the tank as we had plenty of 4' lizards, 7" scorpions, besides your normal size tigers, elephants and monkeys. Being I never saw a road, wall or roof in that country keeping the temperature steady would have been a problem as it was a little to hot for a tank. Water changes would have been easy and cheap as it rained for 8 months usually hard enough to float an Oldsmobile in a few minutes. I would imagine I could have kept the tank on those sand bags behind me here but we moved every few days and had to empty the bags, then blow up the place. Leveling the tank would be easy because everything was sand bags so you could make any kind of stand you wanted. As long as it was made out of sand bags. I also would have to keep my friend here away from the fish as he ate rats. He walked up to me one day out of the bush and we became friends. During the dry season our drinking water was dredged up from a muddy river and had iodine pills put into it to kill the worms, leaches and other cool wildlife living there so I wouldn't have had to dose iodine. Corals may have liked that.
Here is what that place looked like from a helicopter, so you can see setting up a tank there would have been a piece of cake. I just didn't have the skills then
I didn't have a tank in Viet Nam. I also didn't have under ware in Viet Nam so that wasn't an issue. Besides I flew a few times a week and they wouldn't let me carry it in the helicopter. I am also sure the constant rain would cause me to keep adding salt and the nearest electricity for the power heads was in a different country so the extension cord would have been uncannily long. I wouldn't have had a problem feeding the tank as we had plenty of 4' lizards, 7" scorpions, besides your normal size tigers, elephants and monkeys. Being I never saw a road, wall or roof in that country keeping the temperature steady would have been a problem as it was a little to hot for a tank. Water changes would have been easy and cheap as it rained for 8 months usually hard enough to float an Oldsmobile in a few minutes. I would imagine I could have kept the tank on those sand bags behind me here but we moved every few days and had to empty the bags, then blow up the place. Leveling the tank would be easy because everything was sand bags so you could make any kind of stand you wanted. As long as it was made out of sand bags. I also would have to keep my friend here away from the fish as he ate rats. He walked up to me one day out of the bush and we became friends. During the dry season our drinking water was dredged up from a muddy river and had iodine pills put into it to kill the worms, leaches and other cool wildlife living there so I wouldn't have had to dose iodine. Corals may have liked that.
Here is what that place looked like from a helicopter, so you can see setting up a tank there would have been a piece of cake. I just didn't have the skills then