Tee hee hee! Pretty no? Just waiting back on the answers to a couple of questions, and then on Friday I'll be ordering our tank!
I just finished placing my order for the second to last piece of our automatic water change system; a HDPE Heavy Duty Horizontal Leg tank. Last purchases are actual plumbing parts, but I've learned my lesson about pre-ordering before I've figured out 100% what I'm trying to accomplish. I have to say though the 55g garbage containers we've been using since 2004/2005 have done us very well. I want to re-purpose them but can't figure out how. I may just offer them up for sale at a really ...
This morning someone asked me if I had recent photos of our skimmer. I was cleaning up my phone yesterday and found this video. This was shot a few days, maybe a week, after being put online. This thing is a beast! Can't seem to find the embed option from YouTube, but here is the link. It pulls out about 2-5L/week and that volume seems to be both weather dependent, ozone reliant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJKMDA9Bz4 The quality has degraded significantly, sorry! ...
The wall we intend to place Tibet in. This was us lining everything up to make sure both myself and my other half could enjoy a good view of the tank. I'm short, he's tall, but we found somewhere to meet in the middle. After much demo this is what we had left. We appropriated the basement bathroom to be our fishroom, and have opted to move the bathroom to a more appropriate space. ...
I have been having an issue with heat build up and one easy way to deal with it (without getting a chiller) is to use fans. Fans on an aquarium help to increase evaporation, which cools the aquarium because some of the warm water is replaced with top off water. It does mean the top off water will be used more quickly, so if you go this route, be prepared to refill your top off reservoir more often. I decided to use some old computer fans as a method for introducing cooler air on top ...
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