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  1. Daniel
    Looks like paradise! What are those pipes running next to the tubs? You know you have a lot fish when you begin to lose count of the number of systems you are running ☺️
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    I hadn't thought about frozen food. Partly because I don't feed any frozen foods now. I do however keep my blackworms in the refrigerator, and I was planning to feed blackworms. There is another method of keeping blackworms in a sink under a drippy faucet that I will have to try. I had thought about lighting. My plan is to put the tank near a north facing window. In the book starting on page 13, Innes says: 'Light. As above stated, aquatic plants in order to thrive and help purify the water must have good light. When in the sun many of them can be seen releasing a steady stream of fine bubbles. These are almost pure oxygen. Strong diffused light, with an hour or two of direct sun is approximately ideal. Ordinary artificial light is worthless so far as any effect on the plants is concerned. Direct sun in the summer months is dangerous to small aquaria, as it is liable to raise the temperature too high for the fishes.' Here is a picture from "The Aquarium" magazine that I think illustrates indirect light. He doesn't call it 'pearling' but it clearly he appreciates the plants 'releasing a steady stream of fine bubbles. These are almost pure oxygen.' Cool, even in 1936 pearling was a thing.
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    Cover August 1934 Better Homes and Garden
    The ideal aquarium circa 1934
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    Cover August 1934 Better Homes and Garden
  5. Daniel
    @Sunny Doan Whatever happened to the crinkly growth? How’s it doing now?
  6. Daniel
    I agree with @StephenP2003, I love wild type behavior but especially parental behavior. It’s part of the reason I gravitate to cichlids.
  7. Daniel
    What a happy aquarium! If I died and were to be reincarnated as a guppy, I would want to live in this aquarium!
  8. Daniel
    I am no snail expert, but I think that one is aquatic. It kinda looks like a bladder snail.
  9. Daniel
    That did it. Thank you!
  10. Daniel
    I download the Shortcuts app but might need a bit more help to get your example working.
  11. Daniel
    For me it the only website I ever go to. So my shortcut is the Safari icon 🙂
  12. Daniel
    Heck, we even reasonable disagreements, but the respect is always there. Great photos of nice fish!
  13. Daniel
    Reminded me that I should get a haircut today. @Flynnster14 is the tank at work?
  14. Daniel
    Moving the 1930s aquarium was a beast because it was just me. The tank is almost 50 gallons and made of steel, extra thick glass and a piece of bottom slate almost an inch thick. Don't mind all the honey bees, I had just gotten back from feeding the bees in an out apiary and my local hives had just found the sugar water.
  15. Daniel
    Is there anything that doesn't work? I use dead leaves and sand from the creek in my Apistogramma tanks. The fish like the leaves and the blackworms like the creek sand and will set up colonies. The Apistos never miss a meal when there are blackworm colonies.
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    It's pretty funny too. Innes gets the same questions that @Cory gets, like 'how many of fish X will fit in my tank', or 'Can White Clouds be bred year round, and how about tank size', or even 'what is the best temperature to hatch brine shrimp'? And his answers are pretty much the same as Cory's. @DaveSamsell did the PDF download of the book work for you?
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    So now that I have restricted myself to 'historically accurate' for the 1930s, I need to define what that will mean. For this project the guide to 'historically accurate' will be the text of "The Complete Aquarium Handbook" which is available to download (it is in the public domain now). I will also use "The Aquarium" magazine issues from the early to mid 1930s as both magazine and the book were published by William T. Innes who was sort of the @Cory of his day. The neon tetra is named after Innes, Paracheirodon innesi. Think of this book as the Innes website and the magazine as the Innes YouTube channel (only it is 1936)! Cover of 1936 edition of "The Complete Aquarium Book" May 1945 issue of "The Aquarium" magazine (with loads of references to Hitler in the advertisements) If I don't follow the rules, you can hold me to account as the link to the book download above will get you the entire 1936 edition of the book, color plates and all.
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    More information about "The Complete Aquarium Book 1936"

    Version 1.0.0

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    This is the complete "The Complete Aquarium Handbook". Its author William T. Innes was the Cory McElroy of his day. Besides books, he also published the monthly magazine "The Aquarium"
  19. Daniel
    Welcome! This forum is wonderful, so much knowledge out there. What was the title of the Journal article (the link did not work for me)? I love projects like this!
  20. Daniel
    @Pete the baby wags are so cute! Always more fry than we realize. NIce video update!
  21. Daniel
    This is the Kent Marine AquaDose system, not quite what you want, but I am still looking. AquaDose is a UK company that make heavy duty aquaculture control system like this. That picture above is from Mike Hellweg's book on culturing live foods. His DIY version to the left of the AquaDose is just an hospital IV bag.
  22. Daniel
    Forget these for fish, I want this for humans! Dave, let's you and I make these, get FDA approval, become Billionaires, buy Fluval and Universal Rocks, and put @Cory in charge of both companies!
  23. Daniel
    Here is the old aquarium: I think the slate on the bottom is almost an inch thick! Late this afternoon I delivered the tank to the Imagination Station Science Center in Wilson NC. They have a restoration person on staff that specialized in restoring old windows and glass.
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    Ebay for $12. Seems like a pretty good value. The stories inside the magazine are mind bending. A whole, whole lot has changed socially since the 1930s for the better. But those fish! Healthy angels, beautiful red swordtails, and what a nice little school of zebra danios with vallisneria growing in the background! I looked up the artist for that cover art in the above post. His name Arthur C. Bade. After Better Homes and Gardens, he was a staff artist for Science and Mechnics. I blame him for me thinking I would have a flying car by now!
  25. Daniel
    This is great! Keep the updates coming.
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