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btw is there a good mb with 12 sata ports ?

You are special.

My fishes just assume i'm a giant food machine; the faster they eat me the happier they become.

Why the heck would i want my consciousness recognized.

You lack information - are you going ot take a live disk and move it to the new system? If so windows sometimes have the right drivers and sometime doesn't - if it doesn't things can go bad quickly given how shitty windows handle such. Windows 10 did improve on these things but it is still a...

none - waste of money. The bigger problem is finding drives that can sustain gen 2 rates without throttling due to heat build up. A lot of it is marketing bullshit esp when you consider how windows is actually reading/writing data (chunk size).

Fishes are very stressed when shipped to the store; so flipping them without adequate wait will just further stress them making it more likely to cause issues.

I know 2nd hand that MS has had some wonderful projects from their labs like a java jvm that was light years ahead of existing versions (at that time); BUT marketing kills them as products for various reasons. I can't say about today but in the past MS labs had some extremely talented people...

All that is true of course but one can state the success rate of fishes received or fishes sent just not if some special event cause the death (in the case of death). Btw i consider the first week or so as part of that success. The fishes i've sent have been less common species of apistogramma...

When i give them away (I don't sell fishes) the success has been 100% even some krobia that were delayed 7 or so days by usps. When i buy fishes it has been mixed - originally i was having virtually no deaths - maybe 1 in a 100 but recently that has gone up a bit - mostly with schoolers. For...

yes but it is growing in emersed form since it managed to get the leaves out of the water.

Some very lazy pictures of my geo aquarium - note the little sterbai in the 2nd picture is over 7 years old but it gives you a size scale of these geophagus: This is my most over populated 20 long containing more than 40 fishes - see how many you can find: