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Probably ringing a bell and calling "Bring out your dead!"

How many months do you think you'll actually be using the gas fire/pellet? Say about 5 months? so your gas cost would be $675/year at $135/month If we go on the pessimistic side and say the $400 will only last you 1 winter... That would be $80 pellets/month saving $55/month or $275/year. So you'd need 18 years to break even. If the pellets did last you 2 winters at the 5 months use per year that's $40/month saving $95/month or $475 per year and a break even time of 10.5 years

It's only been recently that NZ's started getting real food, but still the only burritos you can get are bland pub ones or "Old el paso" mexican kits. Maybe 1-2 types of canned chilli if you're lucky. And don't get me started on the bland, greasy "Kiwi roast"

They can also be thermostatically controlled and controlled on a timer. Good luck doing that with a log burner. I'd personally prefer a pellet fire if I didn't have possibly good access to cheap wood and p*a*llets. The ones I've seen the fan isn't annoying at all, just a quiet purr and you can get equipment to run the fire off a car battery or similar if there's a power outage. But...the odds of a power outage longer than 12 hours is pretty small, harden up and grab a blanket.

It's almost like they breed like rabbits...

Worm Vs Snail, woah, blink and you'll miss it!

Yeah, and a $60K car fits really nicely into the "About $20K" price range.

I'd go with a stock S15. No need to go with with a body kit.

If you have snow with less ice in it, then you have less snow.

It means the glass can withstand 1.5 times the water pressure that is on it. This does not account for things like earthquakes, bumping the tank, rocks shifting inside the tank and hitting the glass. Which is why a safety factor of 3 and up is commonly recommended.

Ah hah, http://www.solacanada.com/ has some spec sheets for ballasts. Says the open circuit output voltage for 400w ballasts is 300 volts, 1000w ballasts are 410 volts. The operating voltage would be lower than that, but I think you can imagine why putting more voltage than designed through a lamp would be a bad thing...

Give it a try let us know what happens. Seriously, though, I believe the different ballasts provide a different voltage to the lamps. I can't seem to find any numbers, though, I think I've seen them before at some point.

On his flyphone, of course.

Definitely don't want any budsicles.

As long as you have money to buy aquakneadit and have opposable thumbs in order knead it, then you can most likely do it yourself. It's a clay like 2 part epoxy, mitre 10 usually has it.

I year they taste pretty carppy...

About time I got around to commenting on this one, I have a couple pieces of wood that I've aquakneadited to some flat rocks. I didn't do it to keep them from floating, in my case it was more because they were basically long sticks and I wanted them to stay upright reaching from the bottom to the top of the tank. Stupid fish constantly knock them over otherwise. But, it seems to be working well, and the same thing would work for sinking pieces of driftwood. I actually suspect aquakneaditing dry wood would work better than wet like I did it. Wet is more flexible and squishy so doesn't get held in place as tightly by the kneadit.

I don't see why that implies filter. I have water pumps here ranging from a couple watts to 100 watts.

Also, is it just a pump or is it a filter?

Also, what is the caps lock key? :oops: oops...

wHAT IS THE ph?

Yeah, going rate here is around $100 for 6000 liters. Metered water is, depending on your local costs, about $12 for 6000 liters.

I haven't seen any around here in years.

How thick is it? And is it tempered?