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03-01-2010, 05:45 AM
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One of my brains decided it wanted to have some lunch today. He usually opens at night but I have never ever seen him open during the day before!
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03-09-2010, 05:15 AM
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Thanks! Those are not my brains though, they are Coleus'
 You missing those brains yet?? 
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03-09-2010, 05:36 AM
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Cooking up a storm
Well, since I did up a little write up about how I made fish food I figure maybe I'll do one up demonstrating how I mix Randy's Two-Part for dosing Baking Soda (Alkalinity) and Calcium (From littlesilvermax).
Alkalinity ---------- 1. The first thing I do is go out and buy baking soda of course. Easy enough. You can get 2 kg (4.4lb) box from just about any grocery store for roughly $4.99. That comes out to like $1.13 a pound. Not bad.  2. I then spread the baking soda out on a sheet and bake it in the oven at 350(F) for about an hour (or more).  You can't really over bake this stuff. Randy has a couple of recipes. One that calls for baking and one that does not. Obviously I am using the one that requires baking.  3. After I've baked a batch (i'll usually do like 6 - 8 kgs at a time), I store it in a huge tub. 4. Okay, so on to the mixing. To make up a gallon (3.78L) of this stuff requires 2 1/4 cups of baked baking soda and 14 1/4 cups of water.  I put my water into a pot on the stove and turn the stove on low to warm up the water. This helps with the dissolving  I then pull out my trusty fish blender. This also helps with the mixing A LOT! Trust me! Otherwise you are stirring by hand, very very briskly for a long long long long (did I mention long?) time..  Even with the blender you still don't want to poor it all in at once. Instead I tap the cup of baking soda on the edge of the pot to drop in a little bit at a time while blending/mixing/stirring.  After a few minutes I'm all done and just poor in into a 2L storage bottle. Easy peasy! Calcium ------------- Mixing up calcium additive is more or less the same approach, except there is no baking involved! To make a gallon of additive I mix 2 1/2 cups of calcium (purchased in bulk from littlesilvermax/chemmaster) with 13 1/2 cups of water. I don't even heat up the water when mixing up calcium actually. Just dump both water and calcium together into a container, blend/stir/mix with my hand blender and not long after I'll have 1 gallon of calcium additive ready for dosing. 
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03-09-2010, 05:48 AM
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Fish toys, gotta love 'em :-)
Here we have the fancy schmancy Vertex UF-15 Media Reactor. Great for tumbling oh.. say.. some NP bio pellets perhaps?    The inlet and outlets are 3/4" so I needed to get a couple of adapters in order to hook the inlet up to a maxijet 1200 and to get the outlet to bend back into the sump. It is a fairly sizable reactor that can go in or out of the sump.  Bye bye phosban reactor, hello new hotness.   One mod I did perform was to cut the stock sponges in half. They were really really thick! I shaved them down to about a half a centimeter in thickness. If I had enkamat I probably would have used that, but sadly I do not have any enkamat  And here they are tumbling the day away.. Last edited by kien; 03-09-2010 at 06:13 AM.
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03-10-2010, 08:14 PM
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06-23-2013, 07:35 AM
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Just finished the first 33 pages of this thread . love your tank . hope it fully pulls through your latest trials .
will read through the rest another day . Would like a tank of your layout one day . great dimensions
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06-23-2013, 01:42 PM
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Nature always has a way of reminding us who is ultimately in charge...glad the family is ok Kien and bittersweet on the tank as it is a part of the family too....
I talked to one of my cousins he was one of the areas put under mandatory evacuation went home after being away for 33 hrs found that his house was one of the few in his neighbourhood that was left untouched by the floods that being said when he got to his house he discovered that 28 cats 15 dogs and some other critters had taken up residence at his place and because he had a pet door for his cats and dog the neighbouring animals made themselves at home in his house. With the help of neighbours, SPCA and emergency services all the animals were reunited with owners or taken to local shelters. Unfortunately they did make a mess of his kitchen and living room and some other areas of his house. But he and his wife kept their sense of humour as they have a sign in their window stating they are a pet friendly house and apparently all the neighbourhood animals took them up on the offer 
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