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Sweet satisfaction
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Boudin is off. Brisket has another hour or so, at 172.
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Looks great! Its still 90F here, so plenty of time left for tubbing, or maybe time for winter tubbing? Anywho, best of luck with the shrimp! I've recently become enamored with them. I hope you have good much breeding them!
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Though I must say I’m jealous. That looks like a great turtle and an awesome setup. Where will the sump be?
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I’d stay away from corys. Many have spines, so if your turtle did manage to grab one it could potentially injure or kill the turtle.
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@Patrick_G I use my Weber kettle almost weekly to grill. The smoker only gets pulled out for the low and slow meats. I try for once a month, usually more like every other month. Though more frequently in fall. Anyway, on the final rise and added some boudin to the pit as a side.
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Here's a backed up view of the pit.
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On 9/4/2021 at 3:59 PM, Patrick_G said:
@ChemBob, what kind of cooker is that?
It's an offset stick burner made by Old Country BBQ Pits. I got it at Academy. I believe I got the Pecos model, but I can't say that with 100% certainty.
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On 9/4/2021 at 1:00 PM, Patrick_G said:
Katz Deli Pastrami
Mouth watering knowing I have several hours before I get to eat....
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Building a shelf for my crested gecko terrarium to free up its current location for a 40 breeder. The terrarium is 18 x 18 x 24, so this shelf will actually hold 2 of them, for future expansion. Here is the frame.
It is built similar to my aquarium stands, with the exception the front of the stand is open, as we will be storing things (probably some trucks or similar for my kids) on the ground underneath it. Here is with the plywood shelves added. The lower shelf will help keep it lined up.
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Right around the stall
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Haven't done tri tip. I'll have to look it up. I typically do brisket or a pork butt. I've done chicken a few times. I will often throw some form of sausage on as lunch as well. Being in Louisiana, it's usually a local cajun sausage, but I've done Italian sausage and bratwurst as well.
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On 9/4/2021 at 8:40 AM, lefty o said:
so what time should we all be there for dinner?😎
Probably around 7
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Thanks great. How did you do the background?
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On 9/4/2021 at 12:15 AM, Hobbit said:
n terms of the tannins, I think the only way to get rid of them is to change water
This is the best if you want to keep some. The only way to eliminate them is to eliminate the source, then water change it away. Usually it is coming from wood or leaves. As the botanical age, they will release less tannins as well. I think maybe carbon will remove some?
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On 9/4/2021 at 7:00 AM, tolstoy21 said:
The gunk does clear quickly. But yeah, that's cause it's going back into the sponge (on purpose, to mock me!) so it can laugh in my face again next time!
So true!
On 9/4/2021 at 7:04 AM, Guppysnail said:I use Corys bag technique on prefilter sponge but i zip the bag around the sponge while it is on with filter running then slide down zip rest of the way lift out of tank. Almost no mess or floaties.
As much as I've tried, I can't get this to work. I create the mushroom cloud of doom no matter what I do.
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On 9/4/2021 at 6:47 AM, tolstoy21 said:
nd when I go to remove the sponge to clean it, no matter how many different tactics I try, that gunk gets loose and goes everywhere in the tank
This is a distinct disadvantage. I am unable to remove a sponge filter or prefilter without making a mess. On my 207, I remove the intake tube with the sponge, and this helps quite a bit. I do find it clears up fairly quickly once I'm done.
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Brisket on the smoker this morning. Not a bad way to start football season and spend a day on Labor Day weekend.
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Boiler Up! Purdue for NCAAF. My wife's family are LSU fans, so I've also picked them up as well.
For NFL, after the Rams left St Louis, I have been pulling for the Saints. I'm not as big into NFL though.
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On 9/3/2021 at 10:34 PM, Tihshho said:
One option I've been toying with was using controllers and leveraging the heat mats used in the reptile world. Slap one on the bottom of the tank and heat the base so that the heat radiates up from the base of the tank. The issue then lies in the reliability of the controller as those heat pads can get out of hand otherwise.
In the reptile hobby, it generally recommended to shy away from under tank heaters if you are using substrate, as you need a lot of heat to get through the substrate. General recommendations I've seen is to place them on the side of terrariums with substrate. Same issues in that hobby though. Generally quite a bit of concern with the various heating elements. I was listening to an interview yesterday, and a prolific breeder recommended replacing heat tape / pads every 3 to 5 years due to concerns with failure. You will also lose quite a bit of heat externally and will likely need to use quite a bit more energy than with a submersible heater. A number of commercial heating elements are round, think hot water heaters. This may be the basis for the design of aquarium heaters as well. I doubt there are multiple elements in the heaters. We seem to just make them longer as we add wattage to them.
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I use them on my filters. I like them due fir all the reasons above, keeping shrimp and fry out of the filter, extending filter maintenance, and grazing ground for various critters.
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@eatyourpeas do most of the critters eat the veggies? Curious if you are feeding a prepared diet, or frozen foods? You may have said earlier, but I don't remember. Too many awesome pictures distracted me!
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On 9/2/2021 at 5:32 PM, Tihshho said:
Figured I'd throw in some pictures of the rest during feeding time.
Is the last picture pagoda snails? They look great! Also, what color shrimp are with them? They are striking!
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@Odd Duck So cool! I'm debating getting into breeding a bit myself, but not sure I'm ready to take the plunge. Are pea puffers egg scatterers, or do they stick eggs to a mop or plant like cories? I don't have any but have long debated a murder bean colony.
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Your setups and fish always look great @Fish Folk. I assume another breeding project. Do you have any other fish with them, or do they get a species tank?