Well said Tony!.....

I was just thinking to myself how spending the afternoon drinking rum and then going into the shop to spray lacquer was not the best plan for this afternoon, but then the rum and lacquer combination left me with a feeling of "wow that looks awesome" hope it still looks that good when I come too.

So, its always had me wondering about the number of people on this site at any given time. At this moment there are 431 people on the site, 155 members and 276 guests!! Really? who are the 276 guests? are they members that aren't signed in? people who are truely guests and checking out the site. The guests always seem to out number the members quite handily!! are they "real" people?

It's not that I think the guests are not welcome, actually the opposite, join it's free! Just always thought it was strange that when I looked the numbers are always so lopsided.

Wondered that too many times as well as this:

Members: 8,686, Active Members: 1,205

What's the difference between a member & active member?

I think guests are mostly members that haven't signed in. The number of members is the total number of accounts ever created. This includes people that are no longer in the hobby, people that forgot their password and just created a new account, even the spammers get counted.

Active members are probably enumerated based on last activity date. Not sure the actual time frame.

That's kinda like the story of how I met my wife.

j/k: It was actually the other way around. Her rum and hallucinogen. :lol:

Lucky for you eh Lance... :mrgreen:

Yup!

So we can all pick on Lance again! Heh! :biggrin:

Probably a lot of spiders crawling the site too.

ummm

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/100...v1lxKJ81qbwh0d

my vote is .. i call bull cant be true

Never even saw the text when i came across it lol. yeah doubtful... does look to be a bird cage wrapped in a fishtank tho.

yeah to me its a tank within a tank ive seenother pictures done this way they actually make them for sale... for me too hard to clean and poor bird.

Weird!

maybe thats what Lance should do with his tank?:mrgreen:

:frusty: my Blonde Naso stopped eating & looks terrible :frusty:

:sad: they seem to be increasingly difficult to keep. I had one that was doing well for months then vanished without a trace, was very odd and frustrating.

:puke: :yuck: I just ate way to much pasta

So, Brett, is this your new tank?
My plumbing for the RO/DI should arrive the end of this week, so you can show your significant how much mine puts up with :mrgreen:

Greg, how long have you had your Blondie?

I can't wait to see! If you've been through my many build threads you'll know I practice some pretty ghetto stuff along the way. I still duck going up and down the stairs here even though the MESS of wires, plumbing, shelves and dosing equipment is no longer strapped to the wall and draped across the stairs! :lol:

Lets get some pics of that on your build so my wife will appreciate how clean I am doing this build :lol:
All kidding aside, I showed Donna the hi-lights of lastlight's huge thread and all the nice construction you claim to have done yourself.
I gotta say, if we wanted our tank downstairs, I'd model it after yours.
Good thing for me the DT is going in the LRoom :mrgreen:

So Grizz, how long?

And another thought ....
Don't you just hate it when you find that piece of equipment you want, and then the seller bails 'cause, at the last minute, they think, "well, maybe I should keep it as a back-up"?
Then why the bleep did you offer it to me in the first place?!!!

sometimes lady luck smiles upon you........being a finishing carpenter by trade Im usually an "indoor" kind of guy for work.....recently things had been slow for the crew I normally work with so I have been working with a friend that I met through Canreef and Red Coral....this friend does renovations so the work I do with him varies greatly.....everything from finishing to tiling to insulating to drywall etc, etc.....this week we have been shingling the roof on a big project that he has......its snowing at the moment here in Cowtown so the boss called a snow day and gave us the day off.....so as Im sitting here drinking coffee, enjoying Canreef, my newly acquired blue spot jawfish jumps from the tank and hits the carpet...... if circumstances had been any different (working with my usual crew or no snow) I would have come home to a CCC (crispy carpet critter).....sometimes things do go your way

The parakeet tank reminds me of this post I read on another forum:


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Sorry to hear about the Naso Greg. Hope he starts eating again..

Only had it for a couple months, it was very fat and eating anything I would feed until just recently. He withered away fast and died on Sunday.

Wow that is quite the serendipity. Good to hear this time the stars aligned just right!

So glad you were home to save him :biggrin:

Like

When I worked at a local pet shop in the late 80s, we found a teddy bear hamster that had probably been running loose for a while. When we caught it, it was the size of a small guinea pig with its cheeks stuffed completely full. As soon as it was caught, the bugger began spitting up everything. There was probably half a cup of seeds and food pellets, bits of garbage, some straw, some kid's candy, and a complete full-size plastic shopping bag. You would swear a big dog couldn't fit all that cr@p into its mouth and all this stuff came out of a HAMSTER!!!!

:pound: haha, this is a very unproductive work day today lol

That sucks Grizz

Oh crap just saw that Greg sorry to hear :sad:

Thanks guys, it was for sure one of my most wanted and favorite fish of all. Maybe I will have better luck once I upgrade to the 300.

wait... What? Did I miss something? did you lose a fish!? Sorry man that blows. Nothing suck more then that. :sad:

Ya my Blonde Naso stopped eating for some reason and withered away, died on Sunday.

Oh I didn't realize he died on you .. I missed that part somehow. Last thing I read was that he stopped eating. Sorry to hear it man. That stings. :(