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New fish house
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J.Mcpeak
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Laminar flow rig, take 2.
Looking at the bubbles it would appear the current is not laminar. Maybe the central pipe is necessary even on the downsized model, as per the link. I have two other adjustments to make so I will change the set up at this time.
100 litre mark. Pump, heater, bubble filter, air stone switched on. I will run a pair of used tubes to help algae grow. It also needs more round stones.
Hopefully it will be running tomorrow.
Looking at the bubbles it would appear the current is not laminar. Maybe the central pipe is necessary even on the downsized model, as per the link. I have two other adjustments to make so I will change the set up at this time.
100 litre mark. Pump, heater, bubble filter, air stone switched on. I will run a pair of used tubes to help algae grow. It also needs more round stones.
Hopefully it will be running tomorrow.
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georgetheplec
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i am so jealous!! 
wish i had your skill...with building...and fish!
wish i had your skill...with building...and fish!
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J.Mcpeak
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Lashings of luck (it's true, it really is who you know)
Please don't be jealous!
I had help with the building, mostly I just had a scrap of paper with a drawing on it. I assisted with the building and learned "how to" on the way. I dug the hole and fitted the electrics. The plan was mine, I can't lay bricks but I did knock the muck up! I built the shelves and the tanks, except the ones I finally bought Saturday (first ever (3) tank buy, nearly 9 years in)
The finer points of fitting were in the hands of my sort of boss (ish)
Basically I fitted a free kitchen (I was chief T maker) in return I got a free fish house, I paid for materials. I also added a nice bottle of whiskey into the payment as I am sure it would have turned out a bit "different" if I was left to my own devices. Some of the tools I needed were specialist building tools, fortunately that is what the boss (ish) is, a special builder! Trust me, I got lucky!
The whole lot went up in a month or so, I poured the concrete at the start of September and started building 2 or 3 weeks later.
The two manufactured tanks I have we're given to me by quitters, cheers! They are the 65 litre Hagen and the 120 litre aqua one? Both completely free.
Fish skills just happen, keep fish, get skills.
i am so jealous!!
wish i had your skill...with building...and fish!
Please don't be jealous!
I had help with the building, mostly I just had a scrap of paper with a drawing on it. I assisted with the building and learned "how to" on the way. I dug the hole and fitted the electrics. The plan was mine, I can't lay bricks but I did knock the muck up! I built the shelves and the tanks, except the ones I finally bought Saturday (first ever (3) tank buy, nearly 9 years in)
The finer points of fitting were in the hands of my sort of boss (ish)
Basically I fitted a free kitchen (I was chief T maker
) in return I got a free fish house, I paid for materials. I also added a nice bottle of whiskey into the payment as I am sure it would have turned out a bit "different" if I was left to my own devices. Some of the tools I needed were specialist building tools, fortunately that is what the boss (ish) is, a special builder! Trust me, I got lucky! The whole lot went up in a month or so, I poured the concrete at the start of September and started building 2 or 3 weeks later.
The two manufactured tanks I have we're given to me by quitters, cheers! They are the 65 litre Hagen and the 120 litre aqua one? Both completely free.
Fish skills just happen, keep fish, get skills.
sixtyfou
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That sounds like how I get things done
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J.Mcpeak
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We should help each other! Man-kind (it's all there)
I looked up the baseball page (? silly English type Kerr-nicket!), I guess you're a builder type if you're involved in all that. Back scratching at it's very best! Your team will understand all that.
OVER HERE MATE!
One of those diggers would have been dead handy, much easier than a shovel!
At least I got to play on a kango, so i still had some fun.
That sounds like how I get things done
I looked up the baseball page (?
silly English type Kerr-nicket!), I guess you're a builder type if you're involved in all that. Back scratching at it's very best! Your team will understand all that. OVER HERE MATE! One of those diggers would have been dead handy, much easier than a shovel!
At least I got to play on a kango, so i still had some fun.
sixtyfou
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Yep, we're medium excavating and fine grading. I sell fancy dirt, and make puddles go away
sixtyfou
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I bought a toy from you side of the pond. The Seneye, I have a thread about it in new aquistions.
Sillyfishies
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I want to make my own tanks. But I'm having trouble finding how thick of glass I need... Do you make yours out of glass or acrylic?
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J.Mcpeak
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Aquarium Glass Thickness Calculator
All tanks made of glass. Big tank (900 litre max cap) is 12mm glass (twin skin base, 12+12mm), other tanks I built I used 6.4mm laminated (some twin skin some single skin base). I just bought 3 2nd hand DIY tanks, 2 are 6mm and one is 6mm with 8mm base panel.
It is fairly straightforward. Don't get cut!
Sillyfishies
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Do you save any money doing it DIY?
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J.Mcpeak
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Depends on your occupation.
My big tank cost £350 glass, £60 silicone! (+filters etc.) I think the filters combined, cost more than the glass. I would say yes. (I was a glazier at the time but . . .) my first tank was free to manufacture, my manager "sorted" it for me (they were expecting failure and a lifetimes ribbing), it cost the price of a tube of aquarium silicone (£10) plus filter/heater etc. (+/-£150 with fish)
Shop around and haggle for glass. Off cuts and a glass cutter will save you big money. Glass cutting is fairly simple (mind your fingers) <personal joke.
(The first thing i cut when attempting my first glass cut was my finger)
My big tank cost £350 glass, £60 silicone! (+filters etc.) I think the filters combined, cost more than the glass. I would say yes. (I was a glazier at the time but . . .) my first tank was free to manufacture, my manager "sorted" it for me (they were expecting failure and a lifetimes ribbing), it cost the price of a tube of aquarium silicone (£10) plus filter/heater etc. (+/-£150 with fish)
Shop around and haggle for glass. Off cuts and a glass cutter will save you big money. Glass cutting is fairly simple (mind your fingers
) <personal joke.(The first thing i cut when attempting my first glass cut was my finger)
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J.Mcpeak
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10.December, lunchtime.
Upgraded O2 rig can be seen in top left picture this will be plumbed in today, much less fuss than my old set up, it's made from scrap timber left over from the build. Top right picture, utility wall shows egg tank with air stone rig and quarantine tanks 1-2. Picture centre right, empty tanks are notable, the 5ft soon to be reef and the second 36" tank I picked up at the weekend. Picture bottom right shows many things, quarantine 3 and my new rheophile tank are worthy notes. I still have to plant the 120, plants still potted. Picture bottom left is a closer view of the egg tank.
Upgraded O2 rig can be seen in top left picture this will be plumbed in today, much less fuss than my old set up, it's made from scrap timber left over from the build. Top right picture, utility wall shows egg tank with air stone rig and quarantine tanks 1-2. Picture centre right, empty tanks are notable, the 5ft soon to be reef and the second 36" tank I picked up at the weekend. Picture bottom right shows many things, quarantine 3 and my new rheophile tank are worthy notes. I still have to plant the 120, plants still potted. Picture bottom left is a closer view of the egg tank.
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Picture exclusive. Monday 16th
Yesterday there was signs of life in the egg tank. This evening I managed to capture this image. Before this stage they are virtually transparent. This fish is about approx 8mm, approx 0.315"
There are more, as yet I am unsure exactly where to aim numerically.
Yesterday there was signs of life in the egg tank. This evening I managed to capture this image. Before this stage they are virtually transparent. This fish is about approx 8mm, approx 0.315"
There are more, as yet I am unsure exactly where to aim numerically.
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sixtyfou
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Are you using a macro lens? I have a terrible time trying to take picture of fry.
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J.Mcpeak
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Photography studies +
I tried using the macro, focal length too long @150mm. There is no depth of field unless I stop the aperture way down. Even then at the distance away I was it is still minimal depth of field. That's the hyperfocal thing. Search hyperfocal focusing technique.
Also diffraction starts to affect image quality with a really small aperture, it is also difficult to autofocus on small apertures (lack of light/cheap dslr camera)
I ended up using the kit 18-55vr lens as I only have three lenses to choose from.
The other lens is a slow telephoto zoom, five foot nearest focus distance, not really ideal.
Image exif, 55mm, f/10, ISO 1600, 1/100s, flash (built in TTL), Vr on.
Single shot handheld. (Apps) Photogene, frame artist.
Really I want something around the 50-80mm mark. Trouble is camera lenses are not cheap! My next two lenses are an ultra wide Dx(nikon crop sensor) for landscape photography and a fast 50mm. Really I need a decent tripod then I could maybe set up at a better distance. Something about a better flash system.
I'm trying to complete an all angles camera kit, I got a fish house instead?
My choice this year was, complete camera kit and lose fish or keep current camera kit and keep fish (build fish house Mk II). No brainer! Lenses will always be for sale. Fish (clowns) needed a bigger tank, like the one they were in before I moved (the same one they are in now) I built the 5ft soon to be reef tank as a temporary home. They were not happy in it. I was not happy keeping them in that tank. I think I made the correct choice, I wouldn't know what to do without all of the fish! That's just over a quarter of my life so far, Fishkeeping.
I tried using the macro, focal length too long @150mm. There is no depth of field unless I stop the aperture way down. Even then at the distance away I was it is still minimal depth of field. That's the hyperfocal thing. Search hyperfocal focusing technique.
Also diffraction starts to affect image quality with a really small aperture, it is also difficult to autofocus on small apertures (lack of light/cheap dslr camera)
I ended up using the kit 18-55vr lens as I only have three lenses to choose from.
The other lens is a slow telephoto zoom, five foot nearest focus distance, not really ideal.
Image exif, 55mm, f/10, ISO 1600, 1/100s, flash (built in TTL), Vr on.
Single shot handheld. (Apps) Photogene, frame artist.
Really I want something around the 50-80mm mark. Trouble is camera lenses are not cheap! My next two lenses are an ultra wide Dx(nikon crop sensor) for landscape photography and a fast 50mm. Really I need a decent tripod then I could maybe set up at a better distance. Something about a better flash system.
I'm trying to complete an all angles camera kit, I got a fish house instead?
My choice this year was, complete camera kit and lose fish or keep current camera kit and keep fish (build fish house Mk II). No brainer! Lenses will always be for sale. Fish (clowns) needed a bigger tank, like the one they were in before I moved (the same one they are in now) I built the 5ft soon to be reef tank as a temporary home. They were not happy in it. I was not happy keeping them in that tank. I think I made the correct choice, I wouldn't know what to do without all of the fish! That's just over a quarter of my life so far, Fishkeeping.
pip walters
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I think that's a no
Anway, he's only got a Nikon (I even hestitated to give that a capital N)
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J.Mcpeak
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I think that's a no
Anway, he's only got a Nikon (I even hestitated to give that a capital N)
Canon freak.
That's the problem, I shoot nikon!
. . . I did read the instructions!
Yes indeed, that's the longest no you will ever read!
pip walters
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Canon freak.
That's the problem, I shoot nikon!
. . . I did read the instructions!
Yes indeed, that's the longest no you will ever read!
Instructions??? What are you a man or a mouse? Lol.
Ever seen a gorilla pod? I have a large gorilla pod (I don't say that out loud in public!). It is going spare if you are interested.
sixtyfou
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I shoot a Nikon D70. All the pictures I've post here though are from my phone.
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