Ira

Greys do not imitate inferior birds. He was just dancing on his own.

There's heaps of sugar in all fruit.

When is Valentines day?

I didn't notice the Grey in the cage in the background last time I saw the vid.

Masterton?

Inbreeding really only starts to cause problems if it's done generation after generation.

Given the quality of the pics it's hard to tell. She's either going to drop fry soon, has bloat, or is going to explode. Are her scales poking out?

It is from Sesame Street originally. The word "Count" was censored. One world deleted, a few short beeps added. Any adult content is the fault of the viewer.

The definition of 0°C is the temperature of a well stirred slush of water and ice at standard atmospheric pressure. Any normal day is going to be close enough for what we're doing. I don't think anything in tap water is going to make a significant difference, but you could collect rainwater and freeze it then make some slush out of that.

And it has been for the last 8 years, what rock have you been living under, Alan?

It would take nowhere near 20 kilowatts to heat a tank that size, depending on ambient temp and insulation of course. There's this convenient thing where the heat is lost by the SURFACE area, not the volume. And surface area increases half as quickly when you make a tank larger as the volume does. It's basic geometry.

Ah...A "Plant" growing room in the basement, eh?

My $15 warehouse fan heater has a thermostat. Of course, it's measured in big bar vs little bar and may have questionable precision, but it's a definite thermostat.

I didn't know we actually had any coral in NZ other than a few rare deepwater corals.

It was a clip from sesame street with added beeps.

Hmmm, Just doing some calculations. Say you get a good thick reinforced concrete pad poured at about $1000? Concrete blocks for 8 meterX3 meter X 2meter double thickness would need about 1100 at $3.45 each Blocks: $3795 Rebar: $528(3 two meter sections per layer of the wall) So $4323 for outer wall not counting concrete to fill it. Guess another $1000 for that. So $6323 for the pond+need a couple coats of pond paint or I guess you could go fancy and fiberglass it. And I'm sure you'd need a resource consent. That's 48,000 liters right there.

I'd be surprised if you couldn't do it for under $1000 without trying hard. Like I was saying before, water cylinder heating elements I'd imagine would be good and I think mine at least is 2kw. You can get a marine tank heat controller for $200ish, 3-4 of those water cylinder elements at $100ish(I think) each that's $600 for 8kw of heating. A bit of plumbing, wiring and relays for a few hundred more. Right around $1000. And, I'm sure there are better/cheaper ways to do it, but this would all be using pieces I think could be easily found.

A couple hot water cylinder elements would probably work too. Wire them up to a good temp controller.

Can completely change the meaning of something when you attempt to fill in the blanks... mod=warren: yeah, really funny but read the guidelines Ira - not suitable for kids now is it - you should have known better than this!

http://www.break.com/index/jerome_murat_two_headed_man.html

Except for the dozens of fish which have several different latin names or are misnamed to begin with...

I think what I'd do for fun is smash it up nice and fine, get an ooold pot and put all the shards into it then put the pot onto a nice hot bonfire. If it's hot enough might get yourself a nice solid block of glass... Which...Uhh...Then...I dunno, I guess you'd just throw in the rubbish after the novelty wears off.

You mean puts you in league with people that aren't backwards anti GE hippies?

Cool, I want one. And it looks like the upper spheres you couldn't drain past about 2 inches or so above the substrate. If you look close the lower end of the tubes between them are well above the bottom of the spheres.

I dunno, I think it's easier to get a good current with a whirlpool than big pumps pumping from one end to the other. Let's take my tank for example. Say it takes 8 seconds for the water to flow from one side to the other. That's a flow of about 400L every 8 seconds which is 180,000 LPH Let's say only half of the water is really flowing at that velocity and call it 90,000 LPH. That's a lot of pumps to match that if you're not doing a whirlpool.