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Murminator

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  • Birthday 02/12/1970

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  1. Sorry to hear of your loss Here is some advice on your intake tube drill a small hole about 2" under the water surface and just turn the hole towards the glass so no plecos or snails get sucked into the hole. Then if your filter decided to dump everything on the floor again it will only drain to the hole then it will suck air and stop pumping saves a lot of problems with wet floors and dead fish
  2. When did the ACE meetings become clothing optional??? I noticed in this months Aqua Babble under Calendar of Events it asks you to "Please remove clothes at the door" should make for some interesting meetings.......just sayin
  3. Big rubbermade tote add a heater and filter they will be fine
  4. Is anyone running metal halides over a planted tank? After 10 years my reef tank is really starting to tick me off might scrap it a do a planted tank. Would the plants melt? it is currently running 2X250W over a 90G so 5.5w per gallon too much? I haven't heard of anyone running MH over planted just wondering if it can be done
  5. Well couple weeks ago pulled out the sand and added another bag of flourite. The bag says no need to rinse....BS... the tank looked like a mud puddle couldn't see an inch into the tank no way could put fish in there so I had an old 33G collecting dust set it up real quick with the used water and filter from the original teardown. After 2 days of no circulation or filter you could turn on the lights and almost make out the outline of the driftwood this is ridiculous at this rate it will take a month.....Siphoned all the water out down to the substate rinsed everything down a sucked out pure mud. I had a 5G bucket of natural fine gravel added about 1/2 inch of gravel to the top of the substrate to cap it off. This is the trick that worked filled the tank up and it was cystal clear..yay... drained a couple buckets of water so I didn't drown (31" tall tank and short arms) added a handful up plants waited a few days added the fish now couple weeks later everything is doing good plants are growing well but I did lose a couple black cories in the shuffle but the rest of the cories are fine.
  6. If otto's get to the BN eggs they will eat them
  7. Ok once again I'm trying a planted tank the tank has been running for about 5 years. 3 weeks ago tore it down saved most of the water left a dirty filter took out the rocks and gravel substrate. I added all new substrate about 1.5-2" of flourite and about 1-1.5 inches of silica sand, and I am aware the flouite will eventually push it's way up and mix. I have read a few articles where people did the exact same substrate and thats the only way they do it.....I talked to the plant guy at a LFS and he tells me it doesn't work better to have gravel on top for various reasons. I trolled around the interweeb and read why it is bad...crushed roots build up of gases...etc Just curious is anyone else is running this substrate? What are the experiences? Good? Bad?
  8. I just bought a 88 pound bag of sil 7 sand blasting sand from sil silicates in east edmonton for $10 sand blasting sand has no dust and all the grains are the same size 88 pounds puts about 2.5- 3" of sand in a standard 90G and dirt cheap too
  9. yeah i was going to say you must be a stronger man then me to carry around 10g pails of water.....water is acually 10 pounds per gallon unless your from the US than it's 8.35 pounds per gallon..... I couldn't swing around a 100 pound o water
  10. Thats 2 of us my feet were little sore also ......Got a bag of guppy/endlers with a bonus shrimp for the office tank and a bag of corries i didn't need ....but wanted
  11. A shout box works alot better that a chat room....a shout box posts will always stay there for everyone to see and everyone to contribute whenever. a chat room unless 2 or more people are actually in there at once you usually just talk to yourself for no one to ever see
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