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  1. Well I was referring specifically to sailing channel that have girls vs sailing channels that do not. It's clear which are more succesful. I don't know what stoked means....As to where. East coast, from tip to tip at various points in my life. Most recently, I spent 2 years in the water off of the coast of Maine, including winters. In fact, I was on my way UP TO Maine in December. You should have heard all the comments on VHF about a sailboat going the wrong way. I stopped in Plymouth, and it froze over over night...I had to go to the local hardware store, and buy a shovel to break ice to leave plymouth.
  2. that's true, but it would only last long if they channel included girls
  3. No I don't think I do have any photos. I was living on a sailboat mate 🙂
  4. Not necessarily just today, but over the last couple of days between meetings. combined and moved my daphnia cultures indoor (the greenwater tank), they'll get split again once the population reaches mass for a 10 gal. Partially filled all the aquariums so the water is a little aged. Will be topping off the rest with water from ponds and didn't want to burn up all the pond water in the moves. Added some junk fry and plants to each aquarium just to keep the biology from going completely dormant. The ponds are starting to get cold now, so I need to be able to move half my of those fish into here. I am attempting to cold culture the fish outside, but I am splitting the cultures in half and bringing them inside in case outside is a total loss. Unfortunately the only way to breed cold tolerant fish to breed from fish that survive the condition. I'll be placing pond heaters in the ponds to keep them over 45 Deg F this year.
  5. I drop a chunk of coral into each aquarium. It's enough to provide minerals and calcium to snails and shrimp without having a major affect on water hardness. It's like a slow seep of mineral and the animals take it up as it dissolved. My water is still soft, but my crustaceans and mollusks still have strong shells.
  6. you might want to see what your pH is going to do over time. It could go up or down with age. Sure you can manage it, but it's always best to manage your pH to where it naturally wants to be if you can.
  7. my belief is the crayfish will continue to hunt the shrimp until it's gotten them all....UNLESS...you can keep the crayfish from every getting hungry.
  8. I am assuming whether it's 6 months or 6 years that you will be stopping every day. Again as example, tiny bag of water for several hours up to a few days.
  9. only necessary over the long term. A few hours of driving doesn't require aerations and gas exchange. Otherwise we couldn't ship fish across the country and around the world.
  10. If you are determined to do it, keep the containers 3/4s of the way between the front to the back tires. Why there? The back tires will have the least sheering force during a turn, but you want to be between the front and the back tires so that bumps are dampened as much as possible. Right over the tire and beyond the tires will have the most "bump". I think you will find that strapping down a plastic lid on a plastic container isn't going to hold the water as well as you might think. If you are going to do it, evacuate ANY AND ALL air from the container. This will help stop the water from sloshing, and therefore stop the fish from being shoved into decorations and sides of the container. I still don't recommend it. The first time you forget to secure it properly, you are going to lose 1/2 the water on the first sploosh, and 1/4 more water on the second sploosh.
  11. mine look like pins floating near the surface Feed them greenwater if you can, infusoria, spirulina power, community flakes ground up in mortar and pestle. Most of it will float on top and they won't touch it, but it will start to drop through the water where they will get it if it falls within a 1/4 inch in front of them. If you can raise live food, that's best. Small daphnia....in fact if you can move the adults out, you can dump a small daphnia culture in there and the fry once large enough will only be able to feed on the baby daphnia but the adults will be safe to keep reproducing.
  12. Specialize in one or a few types of fish only, then work on making as many as you can supply the store. They might then actually start relying on your to provide "those fish". I like to find out what the stores have a hard time keeping in stock. Just make sure you can keep their supply filled.
  13. That's cause Maine is one big near pristine fishery and they don't want you to F it up.
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