Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

Happy Hanukkah!

NY_Caveman · Dec 12, 2019

Katrina71 said:
Happy Hanukkah!

Mazel tov! The anemone is looking awesome BTW!

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

SashimiTurtle · Dec 12, 2019

Frost on the windshield this morning... who's manager do I complain to?

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
Frost on the windshield this morning... who's manager do I complain to?

What??? You don't have cardboard?

SashimiTurtle · Dec 12, 2019

Katrina71 said:
What??? You don't have cardboard?

You mean the things I put under the truck when I'm working on it? Lots. Never throw out a big box. Didn't think to look and see if it was going to be that cold...

SashimiTurtle · Dec 12, 2019

Alright guys, I think to help facilitate easier water changes... I'm going to look into building a mixing station in my garage. My tank does well when I keep up with monthly water changes, and does bad when I get lazy and skip a bunch in a row. Buuut... making 5 gallons at a time in totes(and forgetting the RODI is running and flow who knows how many gallons out on the garage floor), pouring it into my 40 gallon Brute and then mixing in salt is a pain. Plus, the Brute takes up a lot of room in the kitchen/breakfast bar area when I'm making up water. I think I'd like around 100 gallons capacity of each fresh and salt, that way I can make a large batch and have it last a few changes. It'll also give me a cushion in case of emergency, I can do a large water change fairly rapidly. Two tanks, a recirculation pump, one heater for the salt tank a manifold and a hose to reach to the tank inside. Mount the RODI filters on the stand and use a solenoid and float switches to turn on and off the water supply to the RODI tank.

Where do people get their tanks from? I know they can be pricey, but I've seen them fairly affordable also.

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
Alright guys, I think to help facilitate easier water changes... I'm going to look into building a mixing station in my garage. My tank does well when I keep up with monthly water changes, and does bad when I get lazy and skip a bunch in a row. Buuut... making 5 gallons at a time in totes(and forgetting the RODI is running and flow who knows how many gallons out on the garage floor), pouring it into my 40 gallon Brute and then mixing in salt is a pain. Plus, the Brute takes up a lot of room in the kitchen/breakfast bar area when I'm making up water. I think I'd like around 100 gallons capacity of each fresh and salt, that way I can make a large batch and have it last a few changes. It'll also give me a cushion in case of emergency, I can do a large water change fairly rapidly. Two tanks, a recirculation pump, one heater for the salt tank a manifold and a hose to reach to the tank inside. Mount the RODI filters on the stand and use a solenoid and float switches to turn on and off the water supply to the RODI tank.

Where do people get their tanks from? I know they can be pricey, but I've seen them fairly affordable also.

I've been the best prices on Craigslist.

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

I'm still wanting to try an AWC. Just pricey.

SashimiTurtle · Dec 12, 2019

Katrina71 said:
I'm still wanting to try an AWC. Just pricey.

I still haven't set up my Auto Aqua AWC on the Menagerie. All I need are two buckets, but noooo... someone has to be a turtle.

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

Robin Haselden said:
I still haven't set up my Auto Aqua AWC on the Menagerie. All I need are two buckets, but noooo... someone has to be a turtle.

Get crackin! Report back.

MrWheelock · Dec 12, 2019

I got my 35 gallon container at tractor supply co

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

Did y'all see the Ring hacker story? Alarming. Please look.

NY_Caveman · Dec 12, 2019

Any phone, home, computer camera can probably be hacked. This one seemed too easy though.

How Hackers Are Breaking Into Ring Cameras

After a hacker broke into a Ring camera in Tennessee and spoke to a child, Motherboard found hackers have made dedicated software for gaining access.

www.vice.com

Katrina71 · Dec 12, 2019

Y'all would have to post bail.

NY_Caveman · Dec 12, 2019

I worried about our Wyze cam. When we first got it it changed position a couple of times and freaked us out (pan and tilt model). We realized it seems to reset itself and center sometimes, as it was always off in the exact same position.

sfin52 · Dec 12, 2019

Magellan said:
+1000000000

JoshH said:
Drives me NUTS people can't get there pets spayed or neutered. It's not insanely expensive to do.

Free during some events or as low as 25 at the apl

Magellan said:
The first place Rachel and I lived, we overheard a conversation at the pool between 2 people on disability (for no other reason than that they were enormously overweight) discussing how easy it was to get a new government phone after one of the women dropped hers in the pool...their entire lives were being paid for while we were working our butts off to build our business.

Tax season at Walmart is the gehto Christmas. I hate it when I walk into a section 8 house. They don't pay rent electric or food. They have the latest Apple phone, large tv cable and 7 pairs of Jordans. Makes me go crazy.

Treenk said:
This has to be the most used thread ever I look at the random stuff you guys talk about here and there, but I've never seen the 8 gallon tank! What's in it!?! Is it magic!?! Do I need to scan almost 2000 pages to find it!?!

Nope it's now a 32 bio cube. @Katrina71 is working on a shallow 60 gal cube. Yes you have to read the 30k plus posts.

MrWheelock said:
Dang I should have put that on my Christmas wish list. I found it cheaper to stop eating Army food at the time.

should have gone with air Force food. So much better

Katrina71 said:
Commercials were much better in the 70's-80's

two for your view pleasure

Katrina71 said:
I am super stubborn too. I almost died from pneumonia. I worked the day I went to the doc. They sent me straight to the hospital. 64k later...

2008 I had pneumonia on antibiotics for 24 hours and the next day was playing full court basketball in a league. We only had five guys so I played full game. Heather almost killed me for that.

Robin Haselden said:
Alright guys, I think to help facilitate easier water changes... I'm going to look into building a mixing station in my garage. My tank does well when I keep up with monthly water changes, and does bad when I get lazy and skip a bunch in a row. Buuut... making 5 gallons at a time in totes(and forgetting the RODI is running and flow who knows how many gallons out on the garage floor), pouring it into my 40 gallon Brute and then mixing in salt is a pain. Plus, the Brute takes up a lot of room in the kitchen/breakfast bar area when I'm making up water. I think I'd like around 100 gallons capacity of each fresh and salt, that way I can make a large batch and have it last a few changes. It'll also give me a cushion in case of emergency, I can do a large water change fairly rapidly. Two tanks, a recirculation pump, one heater for the salt tank a manifold and a hose to reach to the tank inside. Mount the RODI filters on the stand and use a solenoid and float switches to turn on and off the water supply to the RODI tank.

Where do people get their tanks from? I know they can be pricey, but I've seen them fairly affordable also.

Pepsi or Coke have large syrup holding barrels 100gal they dispose of these on a regular basis. If you got a factory around you check with them.