Ira
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He had megacolon...Basically severe constipation. His colon wasn't properly pumping the poop through, even with dosing him several times a day with laxatives and pills it wasn't helping. Only other treatments are removing his colon or putting him down. Ironically his nick name has always been "Poohs"
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Hmmm, 1000 LPH would good for any dead spots, scatter a couple around the tank and it could do ok. They're not wave makers, they're just current makers, they don't provide any variable current other than whatever turbulence there happens to be.
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Those are "Pond snails" Kill them, kill them all! They do nothing but breed, and poop then breed some more.
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If you do it right you only have to prime once every, I dunno, 10 years or so. From what I can see of the 2400 it's not really that different than the 1200s. Suck on the outlet hose until water is siphoning into the filter, connect everything up, plug the power in and done.
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I'd get a pair of CF1200s. If you can get them cheap, otherwise an FX5 is only a little more. Edit: I see HFF has the CF1200s for $135 vs $610 for the FX5.
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The Doc's super duper first nano betta tank attempt.
Ira replied to Dr A's topic in Beginners Corner
No, ozidation is a kangarooaction. -
Yeah, took a lot of pulling apparently...
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Should be coming home monday after his colectomy.
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I can say it's pretty conclusive that snails like cracks.
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So...What were the results?
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Yeah, that size is fine. You need to offload the rats as early and as quick as you can. Otherwise you'll be overrun with them. I refuse to ever breed them again, I lost count of how many I'd sold after a couple hundred.
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Sounds reasonable to me. I did once have a powerhead forcefeeding a Fluval 404 because the 404's motor died. It only leaked once, but that's because the pressure popped the levers on the side open and the top of the cannister opened. Running some tape around the outside to hold the levers down fixed that.
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Depends what you mean by wavemaker. People fairly regularly use the term to describe simple powerheads that provide a continuous current rather than devices that provide a variable "Wave" like current. I don't think there's any need for an actual variable current. Few fish have significant waves in their natural environment. But I'm a definite fan of a lot of current since many do live in rivers.
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The point of hanging it from a string is that it DOESN'T touch anything. I always found the normal rubber feet the air pumps come with do fine as long as it's on something solid that it's causing to vibrate or rattling against. No amount of hanging from strings helps with the sound coming directly from them. Good thing air pumps are totally cosmetic and you can throw them out unless they're running sponge filters. Filters do a much better and quieter job of aerating.
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The Doc's super duper first nano betta tank attempt.
Ira replied to Dr A's topic in Beginners Corner
If the trick is separating you from your money definitely. Improving the water, not really. -
Here, let me correct your grammar and punctuation... :sml2:
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Don't boil it that long. And zuchinni is better anyway, it stays more solid and my fish prefer it to cucumber. There's no reason to worry about a fork in the tank, it's stainless steel. 99.9% chance it is anyway.
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Then you have to dig out the weights to reuse them. If you can find them once they've been buried.
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Boil it. Sinks fine.
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Wow, pretty nasty angel, all the ones I've seen were the ones getting beat up, one was too delicate to handle more than a little bit of current.
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I was thinking of crossing my redspot pleco with guppies to make them livebearers and then crossing those offspring with cardinals. Then with puffers to make them aggressive and bitey. Then maybe with mudskippers to make them air breathing.
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Which gold nugget do we get here? Looks like there's two using that common name,One that grows to about 180mm and another that grows to about 350?
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Sorry to hear she's dead. Cause I'm pretty sure that's the only time labs are past puppy stage.
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You missed your chance for huge profit!
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Or you could just replace the sticks, which I doubt are causing any issues...Have you considered replacing them with sticks? Driftwood, plastic, etc all will be fine.
