Jinx jinx jinx jinx aaaarrrggghhhh
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The day after Christmas I decided to purchase an aquarium and begin breeding rare African fish. My future goal is to become a part of a group that will restock some of the African lakes once the rebel fighting has ended and the resulting environmental damage has lessened. I put in my order and it took almost six week of phone calls, emails, tracking, one credit card complaint, one reshipment but I finally got my aquarium, filter, titanium heaters, and plumbing. Then it all started: First one set of stone I was cleaning was covered with moss which had to be bleached. I scrubbed the stone and decided it needed to be cleaned again. It was late at night and I was tired and grabbed a bottle of what I thought was a strong cleaner. It was Murphy's Oil Soap and it left a thick white scum on the stone that I then had to clean off again! Then the tubing was the same size as the nipples it had to go onto and manufacturers today do not make the nipples angled. It took a few days of frustrating work, fingers worn raw from pushing on the tubing, warmed up fingers after sticking the tubing into boiling water to soften it...but we got the tubing on, finally. We got the water into the tank after several redesigns of how to support the stone reefs and finally the tank was looking like an aquarium! So all that was left was to activate the filter last night and pick up my rare fish tonight!!! Woohoo. However the rubber feet kept coming off the water pump...which are required since the pump is pushing 850 gallons of water per hour. The case needs to be isolated from all the vibration. Then I followed the directions the filter manufacturer gave me -- which was to drill a hole in the overflow, insert a one-way-valve, and then I can easily suck out the air to start the siphon. As soon as the drill touched the overflow it fractured!!! No problem -- I went to the manufacturers website. I got back a web page that the website was suspended!!! :doh: So I decided to test the pump with only one overflow. It worked, the power outage test worked, but then I presented two new problems. First the return hose won't lie even, angles upward, and the air hole drilled to break a siphon in the case of a power outage sprayed water all over the bedroom! So I had to figure out how to fix that (fixed). But then the overflow box started leaking and I cannot tighten it enough to stop it from leaking. (Silicon sealer is coming out tonight!!!) :~ Second
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The day after Christmas I decided to purchase an aquarium and begin breeding rare African fish. My future goal is to become a part of a group that will restock some of the African lakes once the rebel fighting has ended and the resulting environmental damage has lessened. I put in my order and it took almost six week of phone calls, emails, tracking, one credit card complaint, one reshipment but I finally got my aquarium, filter, titanium heaters, and plumbing. Then it all started: First one set of stone I was cleaning was covered with moss which had to be bleached. I scrubbed the stone and decided it needed to be cleaned again. It was late at night and I was tired and grabbed a bottle of what I thought was a strong cleaner. It was Murphy's Oil Soap and it left a thick white scum on the stone that I then had to clean off again! Then the tubing was the same size as the nipples it had to go onto and manufacturers today do not make the nipples angled. It took a few days of frustrating work, fingers worn raw from pushing on the tubing, warmed up fingers after sticking the tubing into boiling water to soften it...but we got the tubing on, finally. We got the water into the tank after several redesigns of how to support the stone reefs and finally the tank was looking like an aquarium! So all that was left was to activate the filter last night and pick up my rare fish tonight!!! Woohoo. However the rubber feet kept coming off the water pump...which are required since the pump is pushing 850 gallons of water per hour. The case needs to be isolated from all the vibration. Then I followed the directions the filter manufacturer gave me -- which was to drill a hole in the overflow, insert a one-way-valve, and then I can easily suck out the air to start the siphon. As soon as the drill touched the overflow it fractured!!! No problem -- I went to the manufacturers website. I got back a web page that the website was suspended!!! :doh: So I decided to test the pump with only one overflow. It worked, the power outage test worked, but then I presented two new problems. First the return hose won't lie even, angles upward, and the air hole drilled to break a siphon in the case of a power outage sprayed water all over the bedroom! So I had to figure out how to fix that (fixed). But then the overflow box started leaking and I cannot tighten it enough to stop it from leaking. (Silicon sealer is coming out tonight!!!) :~ Second
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The day after Christmas I decided to purchase an aquarium and begin breeding rare African fish. My future goal is to become a part of a group that will restock some of the African lakes once the rebel fighting has ended and the resulting environmental damage has lessened. I put in my order and it took almost six week of phone calls, emails, tracking, one credit card complaint, one reshipment but I finally got my aquarium, filter, titanium heaters, and plumbing. Then it all started: First one set of stone I was cleaning was covered with moss which had to be bleached. I scrubbed the stone and decided it needed to be cleaned again. It was late at night and I was tired and grabbed a bottle of what I thought was a strong cleaner. It was Murphy's Oil Soap and it left a thick white scum on the stone that I then had to clean off again! Then the tubing was the same size as the nipples it had to go onto and manufacturers today do not make the nipples angled. It took a few days of frustrating work, fingers worn raw from pushing on the tubing, warmed up fingers after sticking the tubing into boiling water to soften it...but we got the tubing on, finally. We got the water into the tank after several redesigns of how to support the stone reefs and finally the tank was looking like an aquarium! So all that was left was to activate the filter last night and pick up my rare fish tonight!!! Woohoo. However the rubber feet kept coming off the water pump...which are required since the pump is pushing 850 gallons of water per hour. The case needs to be isolated from all the vibration. Then I followed the directions the filter manufacturer gave me -- which was to drill a hole in the overflow, insert a one-way-valve, and then I can easily suck out the air to start the siphon. As soon as the drill touched the overflow it fractured!!! No problem -- I went to the manufacturers website. I got back a web page that the website was suspended!!! :doh: So I decided to test the pump with only one overflow. It worked, the power outage test worked, but then I presented two new problems. First the return hose won't lie even, angles upward, and the air hole drilled to break a siphon in the case of a power outage sprayed water all over the bedroom! So I had to figure out how to fix that (fixed). But then the overflow box started leaking and I cannot tighten it enough to stop it from leaking. (Silicon sealer is coming out tonight!!!) :~ Second
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Neolamprologus Caudopunctatus Lamprologus Meleagris Tetrochromis Brichardi Kashese Altolamprologus Calvus Cyprichromis Leptosoma Kasanga\ Neolamprologus Beuscheri Kapambe and a specie of Synodontis that is a new discovery and has not been classified yet. When everything is finally working, the finished product will be beautiful -- it is the best-looking setup I've ever done. It is also the most frustrating. I'm just telling myself that God is testing me to make certain I really, really want to raise these fish. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost. -
Neolamprologus Caudopunctatus Lamprologus Meleagris Tetrochromis Brichardi Kashese Altolamprologus Calvus Cyprichromis Leptosoma Kasanga\ Neolamprologus Beuscheri Kapambe and a specie of Synodontis that is a new discovery and has not been classified yet. When everything is finally working, the finished product will be beautiful -- it is the best-looking setup I've ever done. It is also the most frustrating. I'm just telling myself that God is testing me to make certain I really, really want to raise these fish. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost.I don't have any specialized texts on cichlids, so can't find these exact species. The one text I do have is a bit out of date, but does show pictures of a wide variety of lamprologus. (lamprolugi ? :) ) They look pretty interesting. What are their colors like? Some of those I have pictures of are pretty colorful; others aren't.
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The day after Christmas I decided to purchase an aquarium and begin breeding rare African fish. My future goal is to become a part of a group that will restock some of the African lakes once the rebel fighting has ended and the resulting environmental damage has lessened. I put in my order and it took almost six week of phone calls, emails, tracking, one credit card complaint, one reshipment but I finally got my aquarium, filter, titanium heaters, and plumbing. Then it all started: First one set of stone I was cleaning was covered with moss which had to be bleached. I scrubbed the stone and decided it needed to be cleaned again. It was late at night and I was tired and grabbed a bottle of what I thought was a strong cleaner. It was Murphy's Oil Soap and it left a thick white scum on the stone that I then had to clean off again! Then the tubing was the same size as the nipples it had to go onto and manufacturers today do not make the nipples angled. It took a few days of frustrating work, fingers worn raw from pushing on the tubing, warmed up fingers after sticking the tubing into boiling water to soften it...but we got the tubing on, finally. We got the water into the tank after several redesigns of how to support the stone reefs and finally the tank was looking like an aquarium! So all that was left was to activate the filter last night and pick up my rare fish tonight!!! Woohoo. However the rubber feet kept coming off the water pump...which are required since the pump is pushing 850 gallons of water per hour. The case needs to be isolated from all the vibration. Then I followed the directions the filter manufacturer gave me -- which was to drill a hole in the overflow, insert a one-way-valve, and then I can easily suck out the air to start the siphon. As soon as the drill touched the overflow it fractured!!! No problem -- I went to the manufacturers website. I got back a web page that the website was suspended!!! :doh: So I decided to test the pump with only one overflow. It worked, the power outage test worked, but then I presented two new problems. First the return hose won't lie even, angles upward, and the air hole drilled to break a siphon in the case of a power outage sprayed water all over the bedroom! So I had to figure out how to fix that (fixed). But then the overflow box started leaking and I cannot tighten it enough to stop it from leaking. (Silicon sealer is coming out tonight!!!) :~ Second
It could be worse ... One day I got a phone call at work from my daughter, who had come home for lunch to discover that the house was full of smoke. She put the cats in carriers and got them out of the house, then called 911 and her parents. It seems that a slight leakage from the filter of my saltwater tank had dripped down the power cord to the outlet, shorted it out and started a fire. The fire went up the wall behind the fish tank and became so intense it cracked the tank, which broke and put out the fire. I'm sad to say that none of the fish survived. They gave their lives to save the house. It still makes me sad when I watch Finding Nemo. "Aw, there's a clownfish! Look, blue tangs!" sniff Moral of the story: keep flammables away from the power outlet, and make sure to route the wires so that any drips fall in a safe location. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."
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Neolamprologus Caudopunctatus Lamprologus Meleagris Tetrochromis Brichardi Kashese Altolamprologus Calvus Cyprichromis Leptosoma Kasanga\ Neolamprologus Beuscheri Kapambe and a specie of Synodontis that is a new discovery and has not been classified yet. When everything is finally working, the finished product will be beautiful -- it is the best-looking setup I've ever done. It is also the most frustrating. I'm just telling myself that God is testing me to make certain I really, really want to raise these fish. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost.Will they play together, or will you have a feeding frenzy < 30 seconds after placing them in the tank?:rolleyes: "For all of our languages, we cannot communicate" - Christy Moore, Natives
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The day after Christmas I decided to purchase an aquarium and begin breeding rare African fish. My future goal is to become a part of a group that will restock some of the African lakes once the rebel fighting has ended and the resulting environmental damage has lessened. I put in my order and it took almost six week of phone calls, emails, tracking, one credit card complaint, one reshipment but I finally got my aquarium, filter, titanium heaters, and plumbing. Then it all started: First one set of stone I was cleaning was covered with moss which had to be bleached. I scrubbed the stone and decided it needed to be cleaned again. It was late at night and I was tired and grabbed a bottle of what I thought was a strong cleaner. It was Murphy's Oil Soap and it left a thick white scum on the stone that I then had to clean off again! Then the tubing was the same size as the nipples it had to go onto and manufacturers today do not make the nipples angled. It took a few days of frustrating work, fingers worn raw from pushing on the tubing, warmed up fingers after sticking the tubing into boiling water to soften it...but we got the tubing on, finally. We got the water into the tank after several redesigns of how to support the stone reefs and finally the tank was looking like an aquarium! So all that was left was to activate the filter last night and pick up my rare fish tonight!!! Woohoo. However the rubber feet kept coming off the water pump...which are required since the pump is pushing 850 gallons of water per hour. The case needs to be isolated from all the vibration. Then I followed the directions the filter manufacturer gave me -- which was to drill a hole in the overflow, insert a one-way-valve, and then I can easily suck out the air to start the siphon. As soon as the drill touched the overflow it fractured!!! No problem -- I went to the manufacturers website. I got back a web page that the website was suspended!!! :doh: So I decided to test the pump with only one overflow. It worked, the power outage test worked, but then I presented two new problems. First the return hose won't lie even, angles upward, and the air hole drilled to break a siphon in the case of a power outage sprayed water all over the bedroom! So I had to figure out how to fix that (fixed). But then the overflow box started leaking and I cannot tighten it enough to stop it from leaking. (Silicon sealer is coming out tonight!!!) :~ Second
Um I think you got screwed... what rebel fighting is there, and plus most of the environmentalists talk doggy-doo they said that there was a shortage of elephants in zimbawbe when there are over 90,000 elephants JUST in zimbawbe. Personally I think you're getting it up the rear. Oh yea I was born in Africa and go there regularly to hunt. Hunters do more conservation than environmentalists:-D ------------------ I'm naked under my clothes...
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I don't have any specialized texts on cichlids, so can't find these exact species. The one text I do have is a bit out of date, but does show pictures of a wide variety of lamprologus. (lamprolugi ? :) ) They look pretty interesting. What are their colors like? Some of those I have pictures of are pretty colorful; others aren't.
Neolamprologus Caudopunctatus About 2 1/2 - 3 inches in size, prefers groups, rounded body (not so sharply pointed as other lamps are) pearly white sides with red and yellow band on top fin Lamprologus Meleagris About 2 inches max, shell dwelling breeder Black body, pearly spots on sides, electric blue finnage Tetrochromis Brichardi Kashese about 4-5 inches in length elongated with normal finnage creamy white body, black horizontal stripe in center of body yellow edging on body and fins with black markings on face looks like a large, pale-coloured Julidochromis Altolamprologus Calvus Most interesting fish with a long compressed body that is evolved for eating fry of rock-breaders. To survive taking the babies of a brichardi, it has razor sharp scales that it exposes by arching its' body towards its' attacker. Behaviour in attacking a pontential meal is fascinating to watch. This specie is black background with a white 'vail' of colour over that and then the sides are covered with bright white dots and the fins are bright blue. Cyprichromis Leptosoma Kasanga\ All blue swim at the surface and breed in midwater. When they eat, they extend a tube to suck in the food. If you put food in and it floats too long, they might suck in an airbubble that gets caught in the tube. Then you have to burp them. :) Neolamprologus Beuscheri Kapambe Creamy white body with dark brown blotchy stripes, blue fringing on fin edges, and bright yellow front fins and belly. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost. -
Will they play together, or will you have a feeding frenzy < 30 seconds after placing them in the tank?:rolleyes: "For all of our languages, we cannot communicate" - Christy Moore, Natives
I researched them for about a month to insure that each fish is non-agressive and don't eat each other. Only the Calvus will eat others and then only the babies of the ones I buy. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost. -
It could be worse ... One day I got a phone call at work from my daughter, who had come home for lunch to discover that the house was full of smoke. She put the cats in carriers and got them out of the house, then called 911 and her parents. It seems that a slight leakage from the filter of my saltwater tank had dripped down the power cord to the outlet, shorted it out and started a fire. The fire went up the wall behind the fish tank and became so intense it cracked the tank, which broke and put out the fire. I'm sad to say that none of the fish survived. They gave their lives to save the house. It still makes me sad when I watch Finding Nemo. "Aw, there's a clownfish! Look, blue tangs!" sniff Moral of the story: keep flammables away from the power outlet, and make sure to route the wires so that any drips fall in a safe location. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."
Dave, OMG :omg: that is intense. I have all of my cords moving laterally along the back of the tank and going into one of those sockets that will kill itself if the voltage peaks above the normal level if the wires get 'warm'. :cool: _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost. -
Um I think you got screwed... what rebel fighting is there, and plus most of the environmentalists talk doggy-doo they said that there was a shortage of elephants in zimbawbe when there are over 90,000 elephants JUST in zimbawbe. Personally I think you're getting it up the rear. Oh yea I was born in Africa and go there regularly to hunt. Hunters do more conservation than environmentalists:-D ------------------ I'm naked under my clothes...
The fighting has been in Zaire (formerly the Congo) along the coast of Lake Tanganyika and the last time I got a report from African Divers, Inc, they said that collectors are still getting shot if they get within rifle range of the shoreline. There has also been significant destruction going on in Lake Victoria -- though one major cause was the introduction of the Nile Pearch(?) which grows to 6 feet in length and in 15 years reduced the biosphere of 80% chichlids to 20% cichlids. But I've been working with Ichthyologists, not Environmentalists. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost. -
I researched them for about a month to insure that each fish is non-agressive and don't eat each other. Only the Calvus will eat others and then only the babies of the ones I buy. _____________________________________________ Of all the senses I could possibly lose,
It is most often the one called 'common' that gets lost.You can get a clear plastic box to hang on the side of the tank, for putting the babies in. Water circulates through tiny holes. "For all of our languages, we cannot communicate" - Christy Moore, Natives