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I wouldn't bother with putting an inlet at the bottom. Just drill a bunch of holes all over the outside of the container for the water to be drawn in.

You can keep them with just about anything that's bigger than bite size. Neons or guppies would probably be too small, but anything bigger should be fine. Though, I had a little killie with mine and he was fine.

No need for uber lighting. No need to keep calcium and magnesium and etc all perfect, no need for huge skimmer, no need for stupid amounts of random flow...

There's always the chinese takeout place down the road...

I got a mini ultra stick, that's the only thing worth mentioning. I just need a few bits to assemble it.

Make it a FOWLR, be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper than a reef and you can get a lot more cool fish that aren't reef safe.

uhh...I hope you're not thinking of using the powerhead in the sump to pump water to the tank and another in the tank to pump back to the sump? Because this WILL flood.

How cheap of a skimmer would you be looking for? My Turboflotor is for sale...

They could be considered non living, or living, it's up for argument. But they do contain genetic material.

It applies to all infections due to bacteria, fungi, virusses or other living organisms. This includes foot and mouth and bird flu, but not mad cow disease because it is not caused by a living organism. Mad cow is caused by an infectious, reproducing, non living, protein that isn't destroyed by cooking. Google "Prion" freaky stuff.

Yay for glass thickness calculator. http://www.fnzas.org.nz/uploads/media/GlassThicknessCE_01.xls 10mm minimum 12mm would be better. Can we put a sticky up in each forum titled "LOOK HERE BEFORE CREATING ANOTHER D*@#$( THREAD ASKING ABOUT GLASS THICKNESS!"

Any disease or infection that infects the fish is unlikely to be transmittable to humans. Any disease that infected the fish will be killed when it's cooked.

That sounds almost exactly like my shifts. Where do you work?

Yup, stuck here for another 2.5 hours. 7am-7pm.

Normal NIMHs, like most rechargable batteries do self discharge. Normally around 5-10% per week. There are eneloop nimhs that are low self discharge, more around 1% per week. Nicads self discharge a bit less than standard nimhs, but have somewhere around 1/4 the capacity of nimhs. Lithium based rechargables have self discharges around 1% per month. I think the ultimate batteries would be A123, a lithium type battery. Practically indestructable, you can recharge them in about 6 minutes using 3-4 of them in series with a length of wire and a car battery. But they're not AA sized. I don't think it's a huge problem what type of batteries the camera uses. You can buy a couple extra proprietary lithium batteries. Most major ones you can buy cheap chinese knockoffs that are mostly just as good as the brand name ones but heaps cheaper. Take the charger with you if you're going on a trip and you can charge them up anywhere you can find a wall socket.

I think any laptop I got, first thing I'd do is nuke and pave whatever OS was on.

What batteries are you using? Just plain old alkalines, of course it's going to chew through them. Alkalines only have a capacity of about 700mah at the current drain from a digital camera. Get good quality AA NIMHs though and they'll be good for around 2300ish MAH. So almost 4x as much.

If you compare a small weak beer to a large dose of a strong drug, yeah. But it's perfectly possible to take a small dose of any drug, alcohol or weed or whatever you choose and not have a significant effect. I'd trust someone that's had one party pill a hell of a lot more than someone that's had a big glass of bourbon and claims, "I'm alright, I've only had one drink."

Hmm....Ok, I officially invite any hot chicks to come have a shower with me and get a free mole check, it may save your life.

Should be fine, the electric yellow will likely be the aggressive ones.

The surinamensis shouldn't be a worry at all. The Brasiliensis though, mine anyway was a little bastard.

Woohoo! It's just the battery!

To the best of my knowledge there are no cameras that match those requirements. A few come close, though...

It would appear that it is. Now, I just need to find a camera with really good image quality, 30FPS video at 640X480 or better, good low light, image stabilization, weighs 100 grams or less and is cheap enough I wouldn't be too worried about dropping it from a few hundred feet.

What kind of geophagus is it? There are about a dozen. My Geophagus Surinamensis and Geophagus...Ummm...Somethings Steindachneri? You could put just about anything in with them, they were very calm fish.