Recent content by Magnum Man

well, the furnace parts did not come in today either, at this point, I'm blaming the storm, where ever they were coming from... we ended up talking to the hvac company owner, and at no charge, they had a senior tech come out, and double check the furnace, and restart it, and showed me how to...

I'm really liking these 2 pots... both have been surviving the furnace outage, and the polar freeze... I think the coldest any of my plants have been exposed to, has been 46 degrees... but I can't wait, until these grow out... I bought like 8 of these pans, so I could do this several more...

well it is slowly starting to return to normal temperatures, it's zero right now, with a -7 windchill...

I like fish from all over the world, but like the OP, I separate them by tank, and prefer a lot of terrestrial plants growing out of my tanks, but also have a pretty good variety of aquatic plants, easy ones, mostly rhizome plants, and my "herbery" doesn't follow any specific region... I've...

I'm getting sick of the cold.... everyone else must be as well, Mrs. called to check on the furnace part yesterday, and the gal at the service company yelled at her for calling ( this was not our regular service place, but one with the top reviews, she chose because of that ) my regular service...

playing with the angels??? local pet store, had glo angels last time I was in there for frozen foods.... oooh... maybe glo silver dollars... glo sting rays??? maybe nice fins is just pushing that long fin gene, or is it just the 2, that are extended??? don't want to hear it's ok for angels, and...

my sailfin tetras are getting pretty big... I got up early to stoke the heat ( furnace still not fixed ), and at 1st light in this tank, caught these 2 diagonal parking on the side glass... the palmeri were already out chasing around, while the sailfins slept in this morning...

so, I have cords of wood cut and into tote cages , I can move around with the tractor... I have emptied 2 of them, that were next to the fireplace... will need to see if the diesel tractor will start, it's outside right now, so I can move a couple fresh piles of wood... news just now said windy...

tanks are all holding temperature like little radiant heaters... with the fireplace roaring, living room is now up to 52 degrees... temps slowing warming this week, but next week looks like normal, or maybe slightly above normal... but I may be a frozen fishcycle, by then...

I have heaters in just about every angle, and all work fine... I will admit, maybe shorter heater life, when mounted horizontal along the bottom, but that may just be because the accumulation of mulm and gunk, in and along them shortens their life, running a gravel vac along them once in a...

the artic air is as large as the area of moisture... still -14 here this morning... the house is still above freezing but this extended cold is sinking in everywhere... Mrs. is calling around in search of parts for the furnace... windchill is -35 right now... the fire place is a big fieldstone...