Megatrev62
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Paul, still enjoying all that you print here.
RC should have a "Back in the DAY" FORUM". I bet it would be a hit!!!
RC should have a "Back in the DAY" FORUM". I bet it would be a hit!!!
How this Geezer did it in the beginning
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Paul B
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I don't know if there are enough Geezers here but I really don't know. How many Geezers are here 60 or over?
How about 50 and over? The rest of you are kids and you can go and text each other. We don't know how to do that. :sad2:
If you grew up with computers, cell phones or even transistors, you are a kid.
Computers were invented like when? Last tuesday right?
I feel life was much better without them. Well we had more fun anyway.
And I think we learned better because we had to learn by trial and error not just facebooking some Geek.
Of course if we didn't learn, the teacher would smack us upside our heads and then our parents would do it again. No one got sued.
Any of you young girls know what a jump rope is? It's a rope that you hold and you.......Oh never mind, too complicated. But you can find it on Wipicadia or skype someone about it. Maybe I will tweet about it.
OK that could happen. I had a canary that tweeted, but thats about it.
OK lets all write each other letters and put stamps on them. (stamps are little paper sticky things that don't taste good but we had to lick them anyway)
OK thats enough. :dance:
skidoctor
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Since I stopped doing "stuff" to my tank, I'm finding that I have far less problems. The hands off method seems to be working, some algae and cyano in the sump/ fuge, but I no longer see that as a problem- thanks Paul.
Call me naive, but I've heard of diatom filters, I've never actually seen one. I bet I could build one- if I had any clue what it entailed.
Call me naive, but I've heard of diatom filters, I've never actually seen one. I bet I could build one- if I had any clue what it entailed.
Megatrev62
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DM1975
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Paul, I started to hatch brine shrimp for my fish. Such a simple process, and a fun thing to do. Unfortunately their are no sources for black worms around my area but I am going to attempt feeding red wiggler fishing worms.
I also want to attempt to build an algae trough. I may end up having to build it in my sump so I can keep my glass tops on my tank. Thanks for all of the great tips and advise that I have got from your stories on these forums.
I also want to attempt to build an algae trough. I may end up having to build it in my sump so I can keep my glass tops on my tank. Thanks for all of the great tips and advise that I have got from your stories on these forums.
rogermccray
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I don't know if there are enough Geezers here but I really don't know. How many Geezers are here 60 or over?
How about 50 and over? The rest of you are kids and you can go and text each other. We don't know how to do that. :sad2:
If you grew up with computers, cell phones or even transistors, you are a kid.
Computers were invented like when? Last tuesday right?
I feel life was much better without them. Well we had more fun anyway.
And I think we learned better because we had to learn by trial and error not just facebooking some Geek.
Of course if we didn't learn, the teacher would smack us upside our heads and then our parents would do it again. No one got sued.
Any of you young girls know what a jump rope is? It's a rope that you hold and you.......Oh never mind, too complicated. But you can find it on Wipicadia or skype someone about it. Maybe I will tweet about it.
OK that could happen. I had a canary that tweeted, but thats about it.
OK lets all write each other letters and put stamps on them. (stamps are little paper sticky things that don't taste good but we had to lick them anyway)
OK thats enough. :dance:
I am definitely not a geezer but I do remember a jump rope and stamps that you had to lick. And I remember my dad kicking me out of the house because I had spent enough time inside. I cringe when I drive around the neighborhood and see no kids outside. And I definitely remember getting in trouble at school and being terrified to go home and receive more punishment...(did I mention my dad was a drill sergeant?)
Paul B
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Well "naive" you could build a diatom filter by using a canister filter and fitting it inside with a porous bag, then dump in some diatom powder and let it run through itself for a while, then, without shutting it off, stick it in your tank and it will work fine. I make the bags out of some filtering stuff I had and I sewed it together.
I figured that, I have been to Kansas, not much worms to buy, plenty of horses though. I can't think of any horse parts you could use. If you order wotms you need to make a large worm keeper. I am not sure about red wrigglers but I know earthworms work. You should keep them in some clean sawdust for a week to clean them out and make sure tey were not exposed to fertilizer or insecticide.
If you remember kids outside, you are a Geezer. I don't even remember what kids look like. I know that now they all have that lump growing out of their face, or is is a cellphone? Who are they talking to and why? They aren't doing anything constructive so why would they want to know what their friends, who aren't doing anything anyway are doing?
Do any of them have girlfriends? Are there still girls?
I used to go out in the morning, come home 15 hours later, all dirty and have a great time. I also had a tan.
Anyway, I am not working on my nitrate coil. I have been cycling the coil for a couple of weeks and not I am putting a PVC pipe into another pipe, into another pipe, into another pipe, into another pipe, you get the idea.
That is my anerobic chamber. The water after going through 40' of tubing goes into the smallest pipe then one end is plugged so it flows to the next pipe where one end is plugged etc until it goes through 6 pipes and flows back to the tank. I sliced grooves in the pipes to give more surface area.
I will let it cycle for a month or two and test the outflow to see if it lowers nitrates. If not, I will tear it apart and make something else out of it.:idea:
Squidmotron
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What does a diatom filter do?
It is a mechanical filter that uses diatomaceous earth and a filter bag to polish the water by trapping fine particles in the water column.
Believe it or not some kids still jump rope, hula hop, ride scooters (the foot powered kind), play in the creek, and throw rocks (and their dads as well).
Little league has changed though. It is all about having fun not winning. Oh and water.
Practice use to be twice a week for 2 hours each with 2 nights a week for games. During practice you got one water break from the cut garden hose that was at another field. You had to run there and back and if the coach did not like how you ran you ran again.
Now you have a single one-hour practice and one one-hour game each week and you are lucky if the half the team shows up at either one. Also you have to stop every 15 minutes to make sure no one will pass out from the heat.
Believe it or not some kids still jump rope, hula hop, ride scooters (the foot powered kind), play in the creek, and throw rocks (and their dads as well).
Little league has changed though. It is all about having fun not winning. Oh and water.
Practice use to be twice a week for 2 hours each with 2 nights a week for games. During practice you got one water break from the cut garden hose that was at another field. You had to run there and back and if the coach did not like how you ran you ran again.
Now you have a single one-hour practice and one one-hour game each week and you are lucky if the half the team shows up at either one. Also you have to stop every 15 minutes to make sure no one will pass out from the heat.
Paul B
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It removes anything in the water up to a millionth of an inch. I like them because they are powerful pumps and I use them to powerwash the rock and gravel. I don't really ned to filter that small but it will remove paracites, including ick but really can't be counted on as a cure
Paul B
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Experimenting is my way of keeping this lifelong hobby interesting and when I stop inventing and experimenting, I am dead.
I just finished my last prototype of a de nitrification coil and I will be flushing it out for a few days before I cycle it with salt water. Water takes almost 10 minutes to get through all the intracies of the thing so I think that will be sufficient time to process nitrates. If not, back to the drawing board. :dance:
I just finished my last prototype of a de nitrification coil and I will be flushing it out for a few days before I cycle it with salt water. Water takes almost 10 minutes to get through all the intracies of the thing so I think that will be sufficient time to process nitrates. If not, back to the drawing board. :dance:
Megatrev62
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Paul you are the man brother.Remember $1.44 day at Woolco? Jeepers creepers.
looooool
My Dad took my brother and I out to Woolco on the odd Sunday to let the cleaners out of the store. We loved it beyond measure. Candy isle ........red grille lol.Take what you want I guess was my Fathers way of saying things.. Anyway I always gravitated towards the pets...........fish and birds. Loved the fish ( dark aquariums and the birds chirping). Man was I scared with lights off in the store.Dad brought home a 15 gallon tank.............yes 15. Anyway he brought it home. Filled it with fish. I remember Dad saying "the red brick sword is a fish that has babies". Anyway that was geezer times ago lol. I remember Dad cleaning the filter floss and charcoal filter with the bubbles coming out of it. I guess the "geezers" know what I'm saying)(He hated that task by
the way............lol). Won't go further than that. But my Father instilled a sence of responsibility in me I never realized till years later. Anyway I digress......Love him with all my heart. Paull you are the MAN.
looooool
My Dad took my brother and I out to Woolco on the odd Sunday to let the cleaners out of the store. We loved it beyond measure. Candy isle ........red grille lol.Take what you want I guess was my Fathers way of saying things.. Anyway I always gravitated towards the pets...........fish and birds. Loved the fish ( dark aquariums and the birds chirping). Man was I scared with lights off in the store.Dad brought home a 15 gallon tank.............yes 15. Anyway he brought it home. Filled it with fish. I remember Dad saying "the red brick sword is a fish that has babies". Anyway that was geezer times ago lol. I remember Dad cleaning the filter floss and charcoal filter with the bubbles coming out of it. I guess the "geezers" know what I'm saying)(He hated that task by
the way............lol). Won't go further than that. But my Father instilled a sence of responsibility in me I never realized till years later. Anyway I digress......Love him with all my heart. Paull you are the MAN.
Megatrev62
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:fun2::fun2:$1.44 day............at Woolco, mainstay in the day. If you remember that .... Geezer!!!!
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TheGodParticle
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C'mon now Paul, your smart enough to know perpetual motion machines are impossible.
It sure makes em worth the money though when they last a really really long time!
Paul B
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No, I didn't take pictures of the insides but I thought about it. It is a little confusing but I think it will work in about 2 months. It is now just running fresh water to get rid of construction oils, glue etc.
The ends are regular PVC fittings, one end has a screw on plug so I can open it to see how it is working.
I don't think we had Woolco but we had Woolworth's which was a 5 and 10 cent store that also sold fish.
I think if people could feed blackworms every day, they wouldn't have all these problems with diseases.
I also miss my Father intensely. He died 53 years ago at the age of 47 when I was 10. I was too young to learn from him all the things he knew. I think he would have loved the boat and the fish tank, after all he was born into a fish business and his entire life was fish. He used to peddle fish over the Brooklyn Bridge with the fish on his back until he could afford a push cart. That was in about 1925 or so. They were tough people and had to work much harder than we do. They didn't complain about air conditioning, work conditions, snow or anything else.
I spent many years doing that. And stirring up the UG filter.
I think I got paid 75 cents an hour, then it went to $1.25. And that was good money. Gas was 27 cents. :sad2:
I think any type of sawdust is fine. You can also use damp cardboard or sand. Anything to clean them out. You can also hold them with their head up under a faucet and squeeze them from the top down toward their tail to get the mud out. The head is the part with the eye lashes.
So they say, but all bets are not in yet. I am working on a motor that works on the heat of sunlight, and gravity, not light, heat. If you put it on the North pole where they get almost perpetual sunlight, the thing may work forever. Kind of almost.
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