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.