What are you doing today?

[gwand]

just the 4 or so large one - one for clown loaches, one for dwarf cichild, one for west africans and one for discus - the geo tank will probably not be but there are details. A lot of this is predicated that the water recycler works as expected. About 8 months before i move i'll build a prototype to test the control logic.

Right now the plan is 12x4x20 for the clown loaches, 12x5x18 for the dwarf cichild, 8x5x18 for west african, 8x3x20 for discus, 8x3x18 or 20 for geo. A bit depends on how large the cf winemilleri get - i don' tthink they are closely related to winemilleri and will be quite a bit smaller than 12 inches but it remains to be seen. I've been talking to someone who has some older ones from the same region with similar markings. The problem is he thinks his batch might be stunted by mistreatment as they were held for some months in very hard aklaline water by the importer so it is hard to tell but i will know before i move.

The clowns really enjoy clean water more so than the discus or geo i have - or at least they react to it in a more obvious visible fashion. I might just drop the idea of keeping discus - they are very well trained and well behaved but in the end they are also a rather predictable boring fish. While not as pretty i find the chocolates i keep with the clown loaches more spontaneous and less predictable. The biggest problem i have with the discus is their extreme timidness and lack of curiousity to change.

That is a fantastic project. I hope you video the end result for us. So professional. Sounds like you could charge admission to the public.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Yea. Kind of sick isn't it. There was a lady (teacher) who was asking for a donation for a class trip of several thousand dollars. I offered to make up the difference between what they collected and they needed. She had me drive to her house and i discovered it was in a very wealthy part of town and a million dollar plus home. I didn't walk but decided i wouldn't do it again. She could have covered the cost and only neede dto chip off a fender from her very expensive car to cover it.

That's sad, but the part of this story that interests me is a teacher living in a million dollar home. I'm obviously not doing this right...

 

[gwand]

That's sad, but the part of this story that interests me is a teacher living in a million dollar home. I'm obviously not doing this right...

The M&M rule. Marry Money.

 

[GaryE]

I like the plan ahead approach. I have begun to keep some fish that I had 30 years ago, and having knowledge of what they are this time is paying off. I'm giving more space, tailored diets and overall better set ups because over the past few years when I took stock of where I wanted to go with the hobby, I realized this set of familiar fish hadn't been explored enough. Each had a reason to be liked, and each was going to be hard, but not impossible to get hold of. I have a list of a dozen species, and hope that over the next year, I can acquire 4 of them. I've had time to consider how I would keep each given a second chance, and as they become available, this time, I'm ready with a plan for each.

This winter, as possibilities began to appear, I overhauled my live food plans and increased the sizes of the tanks I have available. I have a couple of decent sized, 4 foot, 1.3 metre tanks running with temporary fish just to keep them cycled, and if the hoped for shipments actually arrive, I can quickly convert them according to my long term plan. If it takes time, well, the plans are long term.

I'll never have the kind of huge tank set up @anewbie is planning, but I've gone fishing. My lines are out and the bobbers bobbing. Now I just need the patience to get bites.

 

[anewbie]

That's sad, but the part of this story that interests me is a teacher living in a million dollar home. I'm obviously not doing this right...

Well she either had money before going into teaching or her husband brough in the $$. I will make this comment - it always make me sick though I have never gone to the attorney general - i know of a non-profit organization that teaches pre-kinder garden kids christian ethics.

Ok here is the kicker the person who is president of the non-profit pays herself around $400,000 a year and reports this on the yearly form required by the state (that's how i know how much she pays herself). She pays her husband $80K a year. No other board member gets paid. So this couple is making close to $500,000 a year teaching 4 year old ethics. Those are some wicked ethics. I did skim a few other non profits and foundation filings (they are all public) and i couldn't find another example of such though some of the multi-million dollar foundations did pay their president 80k or so to run them. I'm thinking of one in particular that had an annual budget of over $100 million.

 

[Lanpenn]

A teacher living in a home like this is already impressive in US I just imagine how it would be a teacher earning like that in any Brazilian city... I suppose an one-million dollar US home is an extremely impressive one, all right?

Anyway, I am still trying to figure out my family's mysteries.

Now it seems that it is getting cooler once again here. Some thermal amplitude in atmosphere.

Gyraulus sp.

Testing one of my Canon® PowerShot SX400 IS functions. Soon, my camera will complete its 10th birthday.

 

[Back in the fold]

Not so much what I’m doing today but what I’ve been doing . For some inexplicable reason I got the 1970 Blues Image song “ Ride Captain Ride “ into my head but didn’t know the lyrics so I looked them up and memorized them . Now when I’m out on my long bike rides in the American West and nobody can hear me I sing it and I sing it loud . I’m a lousy singer , I don’t breathe right when I’m singing and there really is a way to do it right as I’m sure @WhistlingBadger will know so I’m working on that .
“ Ride Captain ride upon your mystery ship , on your way to a world that others might have missed “ .

 

[GaryE]

@Back in the fold - I love singing, but I make sure no one's around when I do it. I'm tone deaf, and do not have a sweet and pretty voice. The crows pity my efforts, and ducks try to give me lessons. Bull moose think I'm trying hard but that I'd be happier if I met a cow. Along with raw talent, I also have asthma, so a lot of lines peter out before the end, if they're long ones.

No matter, in the car or in the fishroom, I'll belt em out like an old blues shouter. The only key I need is the lyrics and something vaguely like the tune. The fish, who have never heard any other human sing, think I'm brilliant at it.

 

[Back in the fold]

@Back in the fold - I love singing, but I make sure no one's around when I do it. I'm tone deaf, and do not have a sweet and pretty voice. The crows pity my efforts, and ducks try to give me lessons. Bull moose think I'm trying hard but that I'd be happier if I met a cow. Along with raw talent, I also have asthma, so a lot of lines peter out before the end, if they're long ones.

No matter, in the car or in the fishroom, I'll belt em out like an old blues shouter. The only key I need is the lyrics and something vaguely like the tune. The fish, who have never heard any other human sing, think I'm brilliant at it.

That’s what I do . I belt it out . Nobody but the prairie dogs and magpies to hear me and they don’t seem to mind . Cattle and horses are a different story . They look at me like they’ve never seen anything like me . Must not be a whole lot going on in their world .

 

[Rocky998]

Tested out my new G-Loomis rod I got yesterday. Even caught an absolutely MASSIVE snapping turtle. He finally decided to be nice and spit my jig out when I was wrestling him at the bank, trying to figure out if my jig was worth possibly getting my fingers chomped

 

[Back in the fold]

@Rocky998 A budding young Jeremy Wade .

 

[anewbie]

What am i doing today - well this morning i was asking myself if i wanted to take a picture of one of my cory as i have 3 species (well technically 4):
Osteogaster sp. cw010: these range from 8 or 9 years old to 2 years old - large group of 15 to 20 in a 180. I realized i hadn't seen any in a year so when i did the water change this morning I made special care to watch for them - and one or two showed up but only briefly. One of those why have a fish if you never see them questions.
Gastrodermus pygmaeus: i have two groups of these - one in a 20 long with the green neon tetra that hid for over a year without being seen. These are a little less shy than the orange monsters but that aquarium is so dark it is hard to get a good fish photo. The other one is with the orange monsters i have a few - maybe 15 but they stay in the back well out of camera reach.
Hoplisoma sterbai - these again range from around 9 years old to 3 years old - i see them every day but they are in the 500 with some geo and tend to stay well out of the way making them hard to photo through the thick glass. Still they might be possible. I have one old female who i swear is over 3 1/2 inches long - big chubby thing htat is twice as big as the largest male i have. Nice large group - maybe 25 or so.

Now of course if we were asked to take pictures of cats the story would be different. I have some lovely whiptails that like to show off. And while i never see them i have two giangantic 172a - biggest monsters ever seen living in the depths unseen for over 18 months. But anyway after i finish the water change on the 180 i did mange to take these pictures from my yard - I planted them myself !!!

 

[Rocky998]

@Rocky998 A budding young Jeremy Wade .

Haha
I almost wanted to hold that snapping turtle to get a nice photo with em', but I wasn't too sure about how to approach it. Especially since it would've dragged my rod into the lake easily. Also it had to of been 30ish lbs at least. To give an idea of size, if I held it up, it would have covered my torso fully

 

[GaryE]

A torso covered by a turtle shell?

Michelangelo?

 

[anewbie]

A torso covered by a turtle shell?

Could be - one never knows for sure.