pdxmonkeyboy

Looks cool. Arcylic and silicone don't play well together but ibhave heard that there is some new type of silicone for bonding plastic?

Kind of makes me wish i hadn't dropped your new tank and broke it.

I used my sawzall and a diamond tile blade once. This is good if you want to make a bunch of frags from a colony all at once because as your cutting it will catch on something throw the colony across the room and breaking it into a bunch of little pieces.

ya'll got a serious case of generator envy. I herby knight thee "The Lord of Extension Cords"

You know what I have to do when the power goes out? Nothing.

Its the Tunze osmolater 3155. Lets say $120 that is like 40% off of new.

Yes, the honda is simply the best small generator you can buy. Period. My sat for two years and then i had to dissasemble the carb and clean it to get it to start becuase of deposits.

I have a honda 2200. It is quiet, starts every single time and got my 300 through a couple different power outages. Now that I live in the mountains i have a propane standby with automatic transfer switch. It runs EVERYTHING on my system and both our refridgerators. My 3 cents. If you have more than 2-3k in your tank its foolish not to have a generator. Battery back ups are good but in the city, if your power goes out its usually for longer than a battery back up will last. Honda is a great generator, harbor freight sells honda knock offs that get decent reviews. Two things of note.. never ever never run anything but clear gas (non-ethanol gas) in your generator. If you run it and let it sit for a year the ethanol will react and cause all of this nasty deposits that will clog the carburetor. So next time you need it, it wont start. 2nd thing, but a can of starter fluid and put it on the shelf next to your gen. That way you can be sure you get it running when you need it to.

I have one with a spare pump as well. Its the popular one, the watchamacallit... someone help me out here.

Funny you should say that. ALL my instructions start with "take your shirt off". But now I think I will save time and just say " I dunno, google it"

Your new tank will come with a complete cleaning instructions AND materials.

.5 nitrates! Dayum dude. Do you also juggle knives in your spare time? Well at least you are learning about THE most repeated lie in the aquarium hobby. "You can get rid of alage by lowering nutrients" Alage are like lawn weeds, they are VERY effecient at using resources. Ever see green dandelions in a brown lawn.. that is essentially GHA in your aquarium. Clean up crew is what you need!

The best thing you can do right now is just ignore the PH until you get other things dialed. Your ph is just fine at those levels.

Make sure you rinse the vials well before you out them away. I have had that cause issues with my wilwaukie. .09 is fine. In general, the conventional wisdom is anything under 0.1 is good. In my experience, worse things happen at 0.00 than 0.15... Plus if you also have reasonably high nitrate then you are a good candidate for carbon dosing to slowly lower both.

Lots of people post what it looks like when you make an aquarium. This is what YOU look like. Lol

Cant tell in picture. Some look like lymph.to me. Does it look like a tiny piece of cauliflower? Like a knotty white lump?

Looks to me that it was getting beat up a bit. The risk now is secondary infection. Antibiotics would be a good move. In a QT tank would be best. I have a 20g long setup if you need to borrow it. I have a fair amount of antibiotics as well. I would post your pics on humblefish.com. for expert advice.

Ok, we will talk in 2030. Lol

like I said, tapp plastics is absolutely criminal in their pricing. Tapp wants $300 for a 30x48 piece of 1/2 starboard. Piedmont wants $221 for an ENTIRE 4x8 sheet..... That is over 400% more expensive....

geez.. zero shout out to the guy building your tank 😞 If you want me to check if piedmont has 1/2 marine HPDE I can.

I buy filter paper in a 36" by 300' roll and cut it down.

Achilles prefer halides over LED... just saying.

I like that design. the whole integrated spool and gear.

I have said many many many times how completely psychotic my achilies was. I found him fashioning a shiv in the back of the display one day. Mine didn't pace but he would viscously attack ANY new fish in the tank. angel fish? KILL!!! blenny.. KILL! who attacks a blenny? Dude was out of control. I had to add 3 new big tangs at once to get any new fish in there. My guess is he will chill out over time. But for the record, Achilies and powder blues still hold the top of the list for aggressive tangs. People thing the sohal is agressive....Pffff homey got nothing on the PB.