On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Charter wrote: > I had actually been thinking of cutting the woody bamboo stakes to size, > then bracing them upright in the gravel, for a kind of thicket effect. In > my head, bamboo stakes and some floating water sprite makes for an Asian > ditch biotope, perfect for pearl gourami. Maybe drill a few holes in the back where one can't see them -- or even cut a groove with a table saw, so that water can move around & more easily submerge? Can one fill the bottom with rocks or gravel to help it sink? - Erik -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com