Fishroom Reality Check

[User]

Katie literally just asked if it's possible to add a second biggish tank and plumb it into the same sump. She really wants a dogface puffer. LIke, really.

Of course, (with tongue in cheek) I said it only really works if you balance the volumes of the two tanks, so it'd have to be at least 125 bit a 180 would be better...

I'm sitting here watching her trying to figure out why that would matter and why they had to match, lol. So I preemptively just said "you have to have consistent backflow through the pump when you shut one system off otherwise you flood the sump chamber and that'd be real bad".

She's even more confused now, lol. I think I might be able to keep that sort of thing up for a couple days before she cottons on

 

[Victoria M]

Rotten. I like your style!

 

[User]

Rotten. I like your style!

LOl

Cabin fever is manifesting in my sense of humour

 

[User]

Of course, now I've started to think through the macro fuge rescape- I'm second guessing the idea of having a 7" deep sandbed.

The back section will be 28x7x14, so not an insignificant amount of sand.

I want to try turtle grass at the back whIch needs the deeper sand, but I don't want to risk the rest of the tank for it

Should I stick with the DSB, or design a raised plenum to turn the back part 2" sand bed. Obviously I'd need a pump behind the wall to prevent water stagnation which add complexity

Uugghh

 

[User]

Rotten. I like your style!

Of course- I took a page out of you guys hair salon pics earlier... I took a #0 razor to my head this afternoon... didn't tell Katie, just went downstairs and started prepping dinner... about 15 minutes later , C just looks me dead in the eye from the couch, and said 'Moo-ooooooom, where is daddies hair?' Lol

So, I've gone from a 10 week 3" grow-out on top, and a 2" beard, to a full on Kojak with a 2" beard which stops just at the ear line

 

[NY_Caveman]

Of course- I took a page out of you guys hair salon pics earlier... I took a #0 razor to my head this afternoon... didn't tell Katie, just went downstairs and started prepping dinner... about 15 minutes later , C just looks me dead in the eye from the couch, and said 'Moo-ooooooom, where is daddies hair?' Lol

So, I've gone from a 10 week 3" grow-out on top, and a 2" beard, to a full on Kojak with a 2" beard which stops just at the ear line

We demand pictures! LOL! I shaved my goatee two weeks ago and already grew it back. The isolation boredom continues.

 

[User]

We demand pictures! LOL! I shaved my goatee two weeks ago and already grew it back. The isolation boredom continues.

Lol- no chance. AT least, not until I get so some sun on it to colour up the pasty white dome.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Lol- no chance. AT least, not until I get so some sun on it to colour up the pasty white dome.

I am German-Irish. I get that.

 

[User]

Super duper high tech ATO for coral QT...

 

[User]

Don't mock...

Yes, those are crayons.

No, Monet didn't draw it.

That's all me.

 

[User]

Am I making a mistake with the DSB in back?

 

[Victoria M]

I dunno nuthin until I see pictures of a snow white dome!

 

[User]

I dunno nuthin until I see pictures of a snow white dome!

Identity hidden to protect the innocent

 

[Victoria M]

Identity hidden to protect the innocent

Oh yeah that’s totally how I picture you.

 

[Victoria M]

OMG! I CANT STOP LAUGHING! Did you draw this while coloring with the girls? If so, you are excused, and I will stop laughing.

 

[User]

OMG! I CANT STOP LAUGHING! Did you draw this while coloring with the girls? If so, you are excused, and I will stop laughing.

Lol, no. They were napping.

C DOES NOT share her art supplies with dad, ever since he drew an alligator punching Santa

 

[User]

Oh yeah that’s totally how I picture you.

#moustachegoalz

 

[User]

So will mollies breed in saltwater? If so I can see them being great in a refugium. Mollies eat the algae that grows in the fuge, make babies, babies feed the reef?

TO answer that question- yes! Yes they can

One of my QT mollies has been dropping babies, and I think Tomi and the other two mollies have been eating them..,

 

[Victoria M]

TO answer that question- yes! Yes they can

One of my QT mollies has been dropping babies, and I think Tomi and the other two mollies have been eating them..,

Pretty cool up cycling.

 

[User]

Energy Audits, because I'm a Numbers guy. Got myself a kill-o-watt meter

Georgia power is billing us at $0.10/kWh

Phyto farm: LED panel for 1 'growth chamber'

20W, 0.48amps- 16/8 cycle. That 16 hours costs me $0.036. That works out to $1.08/ month, $12.96/yr.


Doing heaters over next 24 hours. I think there's 350w worth of eheim jaegers in the return chamber.