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IDPM Wrote:Assembly line time. Looking good!! What are the dimensions?
18"h x 22.5"w x 19"d -- works out to be just shy of 33 gallons each, once you allow for the doors inset over the front vent. The idea is to have two of them fit snugly on a shelf in a 48" wire rack.
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C'mon now, I lived in Texas for 10 years and no self respecting Texan wants a "Euro" anything in their frog room. Y'all gotta call em "Alamo vivs"!!
Oh and since it's the start of football season....Hook 'em Horns!!!!!
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...and now the bad news of the day; it looks like my 105 gallon mbuna tank has split a seam, so I guess I'll be spending the weekend tearing it down.
If anyone in the D/FW area wants a huge colony (somewhere between 20 and 30, at a guess) of electric yellow Labidochromis caeruleus (or just some of them), send me a PM. There's also 3 Boesemani Rainbows in there, and a fairly decorative grey & black striped catfish of some kind (Synodontis?) who's about 4.5" and stays mostly hidden. If I end up replacing this tank, it'll probably become a planted tank, so the mbuna and friends need new homes.
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Rusty_Shackleford Wrote:C'mon now, I lived in Texas for 10 years and no self respecting Texan wants a "Euro" anything in their frog room.
...other than the occasional euro-import frog, maybe :mrgreen:
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Chuck Lawson Wrote:Rusty_Shackleford Wrote:C'mon now, I lived in Texas for 10 years and no self respecting Texan wants a "Euro" anything in their frog room.
...other than the occasional euro-import frog, maybe :mrgreen:
Just as long as they don't come from France. lol
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Thems fightin words...lol
Rusty_Shackleford Wrote:Chuck Lawson Wrote:Rusty_Shackleford Wrote:C'mon now, I lived in Texas for 10 years and no self respecting Texan wants a "Euro" anything in their frog room.
...other than the occasional euro-import frog, maybe :mrgreen:
Just as long as they don't come from France. lol
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I still have my t-shirt that says "Texas is bigger than France!"
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Rusty_Shackleford Wrote:I still have my t-shirt that says "Texas is bigger than France!"
Since you're sounding a little nostalgic I thought I'd post a pic of one today's other projects for you -- about 7 1/2 lbs of applewood smoked pulled pork...
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Also, here are a few of the plants being staged for the new vivs that didn't fit in the grow-out viv...
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Chuck the plant grow out looks awesome!!! Looks like those broms are in 32oz deli cups. What do you have in the cups?
The pulled pork is really a low blow. I swear my stomach growled when I saw that picture. Now I want pulled pork and green chile tacos MMMMM
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The cups are (roughly) half filled with hydroton and then the rest of the way up with fir bark (orchid bark). I keep about an inch of water in the bottom of the cup, and it wicks up to keep the bark just lightly damp without being wet. I had them in the same mix in a clear sterlite for a month or so before I moved them to the cups, and I was surprised at how much they'd rooted into the bark.
If you were doing this long term you'd want a drain about an inch up on the cups (like an orchid semi-hydro cup) so you could flood them periodically to keep salts from building up, but since I just water them with RO and they're only going to be there a short time, they should be fine.
(if anyone tries this, pre-soak your hydroton and fir bark first; once it's wet it wicks nicely, but it doesn't start wicking real well until it's wetted)
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Rusty_Shackleford Wrote:The pulled pork is really a low blow. I swear my stomach growled when I saw that picture. Now I want pulled pork and green chile tacos MMMMM
lol... I'm embarrassed to admit that's probably the first time I've fired up the smoker in the past year; my devious agenda is to lure my kids into visiting over the holiday weekend with promises of succulent smoky pig parts...
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Updated pics shortly, working through a few kinks on these prototype(s) definitely is taking some time.
Anyone wanna come sweat their asses off in the garage with me? It's fun!!
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Fruit flies for labor ...grin
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Final mock up of the front.
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Ghostvivs Wrote:Updated pics shortly, working through a few kinks on these prototype(s) definitely is taking some time.
Anyone wanna come sweat their asses off in the garage with me? It's fun!! If I was near you, I'd definitely give ya a hand!
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Well, I've apparently killed off the mbuna, or at least most of them at any rate, so if anyone was planning a delayed rush to get them, never mind. Not sure yet what happened; got them all moved, leaky tank emptied out and then hurriedly cleaned up for dinner guests. Checked them a bit ago and they're most all goners. I guess a post mortem can wait until tomorrow.
Casper, those are looking great! It's probably a good thing I'm not anywhere near them at the moment; with my luck today they'd probably all spontaneously shatter.
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What??? Awww Chuck that sucks man. I'm sorry, really sorry. Could it have been oxygen depletion? Some rapid fluctuation in water condition or chemistry? That really sucks losing a tankful of fish like that. Been there done that.
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Oxygen depletion is my best guess at the moment. I moved them along with a ton of holey rock and their canister filter to a much smaller tank, which I filled by siphoning from their original tank. When I discovered the problem, I noticed that I'd filled it enough that the canister return wasn't breaking the surface; I adjusted it so that it was, and at least a few of them seem to be doing much better now. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
I've thought I've been out of the yellow lab business before; about six years ago a small handful of them got relegated to an ancient tank in the back corner of my fishroom, which proceeded to have a catastrophic seam failure. After I cleaned up the water and was emptying it out to get rid of it, I discovered two of them hiding in a low spot in the gravel -- these are all descended from those two. With my luck, I'll end up with another viable pair. If so, I really need to convince them that making tanks leak is not a proper solution to population issues.
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For anyone waiting to mark their scorecard, the final survivor tally is five Labidochromis, one rainbow. On the up-side, this takes a lot of time pressure off of trying to decide whether/how to replace the 105. I still need to take it apart and figure out what happened -- it sits about 2" inset into the stand, and water was coming from under the top of the stand, but every seam above the lip of the stand was dry. My guess is it either split one of the bottom seams, or the bottom itself cracked (possibly a dropped rock from the last move, that started out as a tiny crack and finally grew large enough to leak)
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