Homemade Water Pump
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Denny |
December 23, 2011 @
9:05 pm |
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I’ll be one of the speakers for the NWAAS January meeting on Saturday, January 14, 2012. This will be held at 6:30pm in the Rogers Police Department Community Room. I’ll be talking on making a water pump and vacuum pump out of PVC pipe and fittings. I’ve already made the vacuum pump, and will be making the water pump in the next few weeks, so I can get some pictures of the process. Come to the meeting if you’d like to explore this DIY project.
Denny’s Fish Room T-shirts
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Denny |
October 24, 2011 @
6:54 pm |
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I decided that I’d like to have some T-shirts with my logo on them. I went to Vistaprint and had one made up (they were less expensive than anywhere else I found). I love it, but I can’t find anyone who offers them in “tall” sizes. I can’t be the only person in the world who doesn’t think it’s attractive to have your stomach sticking out from under the bottom of your T-shirt (then again, maybe I am). It’s a cool shirt even if it doesn’t fit like I would like it to.
Killiefish
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Denny |
October 24, 2011 @
6:35 pm |
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I wanted to try some killiefish just for a change of pace. I had ordered some Northobranchius eggs from Thailand several weeks ago. They were supposed to be ready this week, so I put the eggs in some pond water Saturday, and by Saturday afternoon, I had swimming fry. I waited till Sunday to remove the fry, and I probably should have done it as soon as I noticed the fry. Not as many were swimming Sunday as I saw Saturday. I put them in a 10 gallon tank, and haven’t seen them since. Hopefully that’s just because they can hide in the Riccia.
“Tanks”
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Denny |
August 29, 2011 @
7:50 pm |
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I’ve watched a few episodes of the new show “Tanks”, and I’ll have to admit that I’m not impressed. It seems like Curly and Mo are making aquariums for people who have more money than sense. I don’t know why people don’t seem to have any imagination or vision on their own, but have to pay someone to tell them what they like. I guess I personally like a more natural look, too, and that’s probably coloring my judgement to some extent.
Raising Peacocks My Way
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Denny |
December 1, 2010 @
12:10 pm |
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Introduction:
Red Shoulder Peacock
I started keeping Peacocks (Aulonacara) and Haplochromis type fish about 5-6 years ago. I had been raising angels using RO water previously, but had just suffered through a bout of the angel fish plague. I finally decided I should be keeping fish that liked my natural water conditions rather than jump through hoops to provide water conditions that aren’t coming out of the tap. At that same time, I ran across a Peacock at the LFS that was labeled as a “Red Peacock”. It was beautiful, and I decided to start raising Peacocks even though they were a little bigger than the typical fish I had been keeping and spawning. And as they say, “The rest is history”.
