David R

In an appropriate sized tank it will be fine. Starting with larger angels and small severums would be advisable.

I think there is a proliferation of mainstream crap, which makes people believe that music is getting "worse". Yes popular music these days is mostly rubbish, and IMO as a genre rap/hip hop has certainly gotten worse as it becomes more mainstream (compare souljah boy or lil wayne to Grandmaster Flash or Public Enemy), but there is still plenty of good music being made out there, you just may need to look a little harder than turning on the radio to find it... One of my favourite "new" bands would have to be The Gaslight Anthem. Check em out if you're into rock, Bruce is a fan... The Gaslight Anthem & Bruce Springsteen - The '59 Sound (Live) That said, I usually listen to The Sound if I have the radio on, have tickets to see Weezer, Elvis Costello and Ringo Starr, and generally don't listen to much music made this millennium. I'm quite happy being old and stubborn! :slfg:

Dave Matthews is new?

My thoughts exactly. Start out small if you want to make tanks, 700L+ is a lot of water when its on your floor....

Going from the stock B16A to a B18CR + 98-spec close ratio box in my old EG6 was night and day difference. The 1600 was still fun tho, just really needed closer gears...

lol, Ira it kinda reminded me of something from one of the Bloodmasters videos, for half a second... [vid here if you haven't seen it; http://youtu.be/bJSakvx3J2E] I hope its one of the cool old EF ones and not a girls del-sol... :lol:

Don't count on it, I spent nearly as much time maintaining my 600L tank as I did my 1400L tank, the only difference was the 1400L took a little longer to fill back up.

mag-lev perhaps? certainly wouldn't happen on the track we have up here, we're lucky to get much over 50! I think the improvements in technology are slowing down, and it is becoming more of a refining process than actually inventing new stuff. As someone was saying about the computers, a home PC was a huge deal when I was young, and still remember our Apple IIc, complete with green screen and two 5.25" floppy drives (no hard drive) and PacMan being amazing! Now I have a computer in my pocket [HTC Desire] that is far more powerful, but it still just based on improvements to that technology. My gradfather once said he was pleased to have been born in an era when train and horse were still the main form of transport (cars were just starting to become popular/available) and had lived to see an age where man had walked on the moon (or did we?)....

Depends on who you have as "friends", I post fish stuff even tho the bulk of people I have on FB probably aren't interested, but I know there are some fish-geeks (and some others who are just mildly curious) out there. As Caryl said, no bank details, no street addresses, no nude-selfies, no helping Nigerian princes smuggle money and you'll be sweet. Just common sense really.

IMO facebook really comes into its own as you get older and your circle of friends has grown and spread a bit. I have regular contact with school friends who live in oz, Germany, Brasil, etc etc, as well as others I have met along the way living in different places, former workmates who have made the move to WA to work in the mines or hauling grain etc. Its great to be able to keep in touch "loosely" with out actually having a conversation (as anti-social as that may sound, it doesn't mean you have less conversation, it just means you can see pics or read about experiences in between the conversations at your leisure). Its also good for following bands you're interested in, or other things (like FNZAS or HFF for example). I'm not saying you shouldn't have one at your age Joe, but just keep its importance in perspective and don't become one of those who live their lives thru facebook/twitter/instagram.

Great book, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!

Thats something that intrigues me too. At the time the bible was written peoples scientific understanding was so limited that trying to bring them up to speed on how the world was created would have taken ten times the pages, so it was far easier to say wham bam done in seven days and get on with the other stuff. I find it impossible to believe the world is only six thousand years old, but equally difficult to believe that life can come from a completely inert nothingness (I have no problem with Darwins theory of natural selection, you'd be a mug to not be able to understand how that works on some scale, but its the very beginning where it falls over for me).

"proof" of Gods existance would defeat the purpose of "faith". And [seems how someone needs to play devils advocate if this is to be a discussion of any sorts], with regard to the quote, it doesn't really make sense. If the bible is to be believed then God made the world perfect and man mucked it up, Epicurus seems to blame God for mans evil (despite us supposedly being made as free-willed beings) and thinks because he hasn't come and sorted out his troubles he therefor doesn't exist (or isn't worth believeing in). It seems to me that many people get God and Santa muddled up...

Rabbit bred zebras?? now I know for sure plumbers are over-paid!! :sml1:

No I haven't, and TBH its probably not going to be a problem, the house was built for a "blended family" with four teenagers and she [ex-owner] said they never ran out of water the couple of summers they were all there (before the marriage split) even with the kids and all their friends. Got a good size roof and a big tank (25K litres IIRC) and hey, its Whangarei, even in summer more than a week without rainfall is unheard of!! The water will be good for the fish, but I have been buffering it a little with calcium and baking soda each water change (just a tiny amount to take the TDS from nearly zero up to ~30) and a bit of coral in the sump to help prevent the pH from crashing. Jen from the little I've read it seems that if you want to grow plants for nitrate removal then submerged plants are nowhere near as good as ones growing above water, and pothos is about the most commonly used.

I want that nice one you posted pics of a while back, in fact I think I called dibs on it then!

LOL watch out of you'll end up in the mount, or worse, up here!!! Do a road trip, but stay the night somewhere

Alan I certainly wouldn't be doing away with water changes completely, and with my tank water having <10ppm tds the water changes should dilute the other minerals well. The location of the tank room makes solar heating (and unfortunately solar lighting too) unfeasible, and I don't care about the power bill that much anyway. I do care about running out of water over summer though!

Too much work, and the heat loss with a ~2000L system would be too great. Basically looking for a simple way to extent the time between water changes given that we are on tank water, though with a set up that size the amount needed to make it worth while may make it unfeasible?

Yeah I don't think I'd have it in a tank with fish like uaru that would eat it, but would be great in a sump. I think its often used as it grows quickly, can be trimmed regularly, doesn't need super light and does well with the roots submerged.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forum ... te!-POTHOS seems like one of the more recommended plants for nitrate removal, just wondering if we get it here in NZ. Most of the googling I did came up with fakes for hire

Flying is your only option then, even driving [legally] is around six hours each way.

If you want to go by train it will take the best part of a day to do it, and you'll have to sit on a flat deck between the containers. Catch one from Westfield to palmy, then another from palmy to Napier. Probably not the easiest option if you're transporting big fish!!

I wouldn't use pine or other soft wood for the reasons Ira stated. If you're going to use rocks etc to try weight it then a bucket/drum/bin would probably be a good investment rather than risking a cracked tank. You could try boiling the dry end of the wood to give it a hurry up, if you have a big enough pot.

The canisters could be useful for additional mechanical, but also mean extra cleaning. If I were going for a sump on a tank that size I'd want it to be the sole method of filtration, I'm looking at a glass filter (looks like a pool filter but filled with recycled glass media) which runs as a closed loop, does mechanical and biological and can be backwashed in a matter of minutes, which drains your tank for a water change at the same time as cleaning the filter. $500US + the pump seems pretty good, only downside is it weighs ~100lbs so shipping may be a killer!