Streetwise
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@shkote, please add your journal to your signature:
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Visit a local glass store with measurements, and ask them to chamfer the edges, so you have no sharp edges. It should be very affordable!
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Timing Lights and Photosynthesis Periods
Streetwise replied to Garrett Johns's topic in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
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Nice and overgrown: sweet!
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Seapora/Deep Blue/Aquarium Masters (same products), make some nice low-iron tanks of various sizes, many rimless. They are my favorite tanks besides my Askoll, which is a rare brand in North America. I think sponge filters hidden behind plants and hardscape can let any tank look nice and minimal. @ARMYVET, do you have a journal with your Landen? My Askoll has AOI features which are hidden in the hood, but it made the light front-biased, so I moved to a different configuration.
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I enjoy pineapple on pizza if it is paired with a dry protein like certain sausage varieties. The bad reputation for pineapple is when it is combined with grease, oil, or too much fat, such as with pepperoni.
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With local pet stores, I am curious to know how easy it is to recognize regular customers. I have visited and said, “I’m the planted tank guy who sometimes buys out all your Neo shrimp.” (It is a small store!) This is a nice shortcut from the customer side. They just ask me how I want them separated.
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I agree with all the suggestions involving a nice boring ecosystem with all sorts of biological snacks that are the side effects of a stable balance.
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Nice write-up! I know that Colorado reference! https://www.beaujos.com
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I finally tried the Cabot Seriously Sharp, and it was really good. It has shells just like Annie’s.
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Some messes clean-up faster than others! I stirred the Askoll 20 a bit more!
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To beat the heat, I had to clean some sponges, increase flow, remove duckweed, remove a light, and remove lids. I did add some mulm to a 2.5 to get it ready for shrimp. For my optional HoBs, it seems that the prefilter for each catches about four times as much as the filter sponges. I don't really need them for filtering, but I am glad to have them moving water during this heat. I just squeezed out the prefilter sponges right into the tank water in photos 1 and 3. In photo two, I added mulm water. The other three are just shots of the 2.5 shrimp tanks with no changes.
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Awesome, @Isaac M!
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My bedroom has my biggest 20 gallon aquarium, and my air conditioner. I’m getting Apex alerts about temperature going past 80F. I removed a second light that I had running to drop the heat. I will be removing the lid for my 16 gallon downstairs and adding a fan. Vermont is feeling the heat today too!
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(Found on Reddit)
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I’m watching The Martian again. Let’s do the math.
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The Martian is the best aquarium novel. We learn about ecosystems.
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@eatyourpeas, I got Neal Stephenson to sign his Wired magazine article about wiring the world at a book reading in Boulder. The Baroque Cycle was amazing, especially with the Cryptonomicon. Seveneves was great.
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Tannins are amazing! Embrace the tea and the benefits.
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I must admit that I enjoy reading Pizza arguments between New York, New Jersey, and New Haven! I love a foldable thin crust slice.
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I love the first cyberpunk books by William Gibson: Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive I started reading these in high school, before the world-wide web, when my most expensive possessions were my Mac, a US Robotics modem, and a second phone line for my BBS. Those stories, and others from authors like Bruce Sterling, envisioned the future of the Internet, and inspired a lot of nerds and geeks to make it happen. I remember when I showed up at CU Boulder in summer of 1993 and asked for Ethernet in my dorm room, and the housing director said that I was the first to ask, and gave me a job running a computer lab. I have been in IT ever since. These books helped shape my life!
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Amon Tobin - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
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Thank you for volunteering to start a pizza thread.
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I think that all hobby threads that bring joy, also build community. These connections help when we talk about our aquarium stuff.
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Please give us a ribs thread!
