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A couple of weeks ago I had a perfectly good Saturday RUINED by a Thursday. For over 40 minutes I lounged around doing breakfast then it got to 7am and the alarm to wake the kids for school went off. Ruined my Saturday that did.

I could swear your post says you will choose a winner on Wednesday at 6pm? ;)

The 5258SMDs and similar are not really comparable to the xp-e and later cree LED SMDs. It is also the difference between energy saving and not energy saving. Using suitable LEDs for a fish tank are not likely to save you energy, but you do get a more specific spectrum choice and if you want low...

Can you tell if that bottled water came from Strathmore? If it did, you are good to go, its ph may be a bit off though as its very soft.

Don't want to seem like I am throwing my toys out of the pram, but you may as well blooming turn your entire leaflet into a single business card with this sites web address if this is your thoughts!

Agreed with above about information on NOT using melafix & why and more importantly, what they can do as an alternative.

Yeah my kids adore my tanks. Its quite amusing, I have 13 black neon tetras and they have named all of them. Now for the scary part: if I ask them to point out where Youtube (yup, thats one of the names) is, they carefully look for a bit, then point him out. After a while of this, I asked how...

We you are redecorating your kids bedroom and convince them they need a fish tank in there...

I feel I should also point out that in at least every canister I have seen, the impeller and pump is housed at the top of the canister. If it was somehow creating a vacuum in the intake or getting air into the canister, it will only pump until air reaches the impeller: it will not empty the...

Half the time its more realistic for the fish, living in cloudy looking water, rather than crystal clear. Have you only recently put the sand in? I used to get the same problem but quickly the sand kicking dies down and the sand readily falls back to the bed after an inch or three of kickup...

Oddly an important aspect I have discovered in recent research in my current work, customers in the UK are changing quickly and dramatically in how we want customer services. Historically we would shrug off problems, or take it to the shop/call the company. This is now seen as an inconvenience...

Respond to your tweet. Head offices get their knickers in a right twist over bad social media, especially when it comes down to something like the manager not getting in touch. Years ago I was sold fish with hidden ich from p@h, took them back the next day when the white spots were showing...

Or seeing as you are all on internet connected devices, let that internet do that hard work like I did ;)

  Many thanks. I don't blog but I do ponder aloud occasionally :D   It is good to see someone else noticing though that the way humans interact is changing and more than what we tend to see, read or hear about. Influencing people is also changing as we see acceptance of things such as tattoos in...

Sorry, it has been a while since I turned it on, lots of updating!   So this touches on a lot of observations and learning that I have made over the years. I shall start with my thoughts on communications via the digital age. Over the last 10 years I have conducted analysis on different methods...

I am about to move to my laptop to write a proper response to this subject.

First time i've used this here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=24c+to+f ;)

Unless your room is staying at a nice consistent 24 degrees then if its lower you need a heater.

My 4' is very heavily stocked, so I complete two 40% changes every week. I dont touch my sand substrate (the plec rearranges that every night for me). Clean the glass every couple of months, filter when output looks like it is slowing (6 months or more). Dead plant bits/poop debris hoovered once...

Both tanks will need a filter. What is your lowest ambient room temperature where the tanks will be kept?

Agreed. Any setup I have seen uses overflow with safety cutoff to a sump, then pump out and plumbing divide it. If the amount of water going in decreases, so does the water out. If the water going in increases, so does the water out, until you overload the outpipe, where the safety cutoff kicks...

Ahh. Took a look, at $53 for a medium i became interested, but looking at it, lots of large vent mesh. The exo terras, whilst expensive, all glass & fine mesh with tiniest of gaps. Cheap method is fish tanks, corotherm/correx roof with fly screen mesh vents. You can use paper binders (the solid...

Whats a jads though? And dobt, my work colleagues wants to know why i am laughing now

Jads? I should add, we have them in a mixed environment, living with the crested geckos. Nice relationship between them, maybe the geckos patrol the escape routes?

That explains it! We have only used fish tanks & exo terras as homes for them, the fish tanks they cannot reach the top of as vents are only over low-zones and the exo terras just seem to be very good at keeping them in :)

We have a giant african black millipede, red leg millipede & a chocolate millipede, none of which have escaped and none of which have every bitten us :s either that or im used to worse bites and think its a tickle. 3 (the name of the escape snake) has been behaving himself, so he gets some more...

What other information can you give? Make and model of filter: Size/Setting of heater/temperature of tank: Quantity of fish Dimensions of tank Volume & frequency of water changes Any tank additives (plant ferts e.g.) What water conditioner you use? Any of the fish showing signs of: Head/tail...

Jeez dude, move that sofa and vacuum under it at least once a month!

Yeah police were behind him on a bike. He did a similar levetating trick at the old beardie dude statue in Rio a while back, except back then he was surrounded by people. My wife and I have watched all his shows and there is nothing magic about what he does. Its witchcraft!

It is very common for sellers to simply reiterate what the supplier has claimed, they are only informing you of what the supplier has told them and I don't see a problem with that. Would you repeat that Michael Jackson has died without carrying out your own post mortem? Even the manufacturers...

I never see deals like that round here :( I have done bodge jobs in the past, but not with mains flowing through it (well not since I was 10 and made my own Blockbuster buzzers.) Getting it sorted to a solid connection is your next main priority. Go see that nana ;)

Trying to think of what its called in the states. Stick tack? Its like a putty, you can break a bit, mash it up in your hand and stick posters on walls, the mens bits back on a statue that you broke off etc. Consistency of gum? Here in Blighty its most famous brand is called blue tack, cos it...

If your boyfriend is a man, there are several things he should own: An axe A hammer A pair of pliers Dirty pictures A drill A saw A soldering iron A copy of Miss Congeniality A general toolkit. One of those in the list should help you

Calis and Floridas are in my opinion the best starter snakes for anyone out there. Dont get too big, not too small, stay lively throughout their life and do this great little tail vibration when they dont want you peeving them off. Ive also never had one refuse a feed.

Some mighty good work there and glad to hear you have moved on from the tinfoil ;) Ask around your more male, more gimpy geeky friends, you will be surprised one will more than likely have a soldering iron and solder and be happy to help you out for free. If you are near Dundee I'll happily offer.

Yes, you can do it with a single bulb. I have a single 30W bulb in a 47 gallon tank but by keeping to hardy, easy, fast growing plants i get ok results. Changing your bulb there wont make any worthy difference. You may be able to get a T5 retrofit kit (allows it to fit a T8 fitment) and if you...

I have seen far worse and worryingly, there are people out there who keep venomous snakes. I am working on trust with him which involves going through this but his personality may end up just being a snake that doesn't like to be handled. Also, its more a fright than painful: stepping on a...

Had to add this photo, taken 20 minutes ago. Sorry its through the dirty glass, if I had opened the viv he would have woken up. Yip thats right, he is asleep in this photo. Shows off just how black he still is though! Edit: adding the actual photo haha.

Sweet as a treat! Only it has taken me 7.5 years to get to 1000 posts...