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Well lets see, I really really like my colors so here it is,The living room I did straw,which is a pretty cream,and the bedroom I did the girly thing country rose,it turned out a little darker than I really liked but it's ok,but what a great excuse for new curtains :evil_lol:. And my little haven away from the world,which was a spare bedroom with my puter desk and roll top and all my little gadgets I did Electra, it's kinda dark blue and I did white trim, sorta turned out pretty. And the bathroom I have decided on Verde Antique, it's a medium green color and I'm going with white trim. I want to get the dining room painted this fall to but it takes a little more effort because my 125 gal tank is in there,it's such a booger to move.I don't Greg but it would be the right time now that everything is nice and tidyI don't see it happening to this old guy
Radar, what colors did you paint your rooms ? I kinda hate brake time, need to find stuff to do.
no fungi greg, just a very tiny spider. must be reaping fruit flies. and yes, the feeling of a newly molted crayfish (yabby) scares me a little bit. i could never keep crays, they always died right after a molt. still workin on that.
the shoelace was extremely long, got it at the fair
. if i could aim the dang thing i could probably turn west and hit you up in north queensland 
good luck with your colors ray-ray, i normally turn to some kinda game show device to make a decision like that
and song of the day, dont worry, no real life reason for it
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the shoelace was extremely long, got it at the fair
. if i could aim the dang thing i could probably turn west and hit you up in north queensland good luck with your colors ray-ray, i normally turn to some kinda game show device to make a decision like that
and song of the day, dont worry, no real life reason for it
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I think my yabbies and shrimp survive their moult because of my hard bore water........calcium and magnesium, and I add shell grit. I'll try and get some photos, cam. I always feel unworthy since I only have one tank and its an old stainless steel framed "Perfecto" which I'm cleaning up.
I've got 80 MacCullochella peelii peelii in a 2300L poly tank, 100 glass shrimp in 10 x 20L plastic tubs, one 6" female yabby "Princess" in her palace and lots of small yabbies in 20L tubs which I need to sex and grade, 60 Pacific Blue Eyes in halved 200L poly foodgrade barrels awaiting aquarium accommodation, and in the lined pond out the front are about 70 comets ranging in size from recent arrivals to some beautiful, longtailed 8" fish of all colour combinations. There're 6 or 8 bright rosy barbs about 60mm long which emerged the other day. I forgot I'd put them in there a couple of years ago.
They're tough, the goldies and the barbs. They live through freezing water in Winter and warm water in Summer with no mechanical filtration or aeration. All I do is top up the water level to compensate for evaporation and transpiration from the Phragmites australis, papyrus, lilies, duckweed and azolla.
I have no reason to do water changes in the big Murray Cod tank because a pond pump on a timer comes on for half an hour every 3 hours. It lifts water up from the tank and into a half barrel which has 400mm depth of recycled brick aggregate in it. The aggregate is between half and three-quarter inch diameter, and is porous like scoria and provides a good micro-environment for nitrosommona, nitrospira, etc bacteria. They're aerobic which is why its a half hour on, 3 hours off flood and drain cycle.
They transform Ammonia/ammonium (NH3/NH+4) to Nitrite (NO-2) and then to Nitrate (NO-3). I have vals and wisteria in the shrimp tubs ('cause they're on the same cycle) and spathaphylums in the aggregate barrel. These take up the Nitrates. Parameters are good, but the bioload is relatively low. The murray's are still under 8"long, so I'll have to have a secondary biofilter/plants system ready at all times.
I still haven't worked out how to use this solar HW panel to keep fish water temps up this Winter.
The 2 ton of water is easier to keep warm and manage than the little tubs. Because of this I'm going to (somehow) use the HW system to heat a thermal mass and maintain an ambient temp in the insulated fish shed.
So, there's plenty to do when you get here.
I've got 80 MacCullochella peelii peelii in a 2300L poly tank, 100 glass shrimp in 10 x 20L plastic tubs, one 6" female yabby "Princess" in her palace and lots of small yabbies in 20L tubs which I need to sex and grade, 60 Pacific Blue Eyes in halved 200L poly foodgrade barrels awaiting aquarium accommodation, and in the lined pond out the front are about 70 comets ranging in size from recent arrivals to some beautiful, longtailed 8" fish of all colour combinations. There're 6 or 8 bright rosy barbs about 60mm long which emerged the other day. I forgot I'd put them in there a couple of years ago.
They're tough, the goldies and the barbs. They live through freezing water in Winter and warm water in Summer with no mechanical filtration or aeration. All I do is top up the water level to compensate for evaporation and transpiration from the Phragmites australis, papyrus, lilies, duckweed and azolla.
I have no reason to do water changes in the big Murray Cod tank because a pond pump on a timer comes on for half an hour every 3 hours. It lifts water up from the tank and into a half barrel which has 400mm depth of recycled brick aggregate in it. The aggregate is between half and three-quarter inch diameter, and is porous like scoria and provides a good micro-environment for nitrosommona, nitrospira, etc bacteria. They're aerobic which is why its a half hour on, 3 hours off flood and drain cycle.
They transform Ammonia/ammonium (NH3/NH+4) to Nitrite (NO-2) and then to Nitrate (NO-3). I have vals and wisteria in the shrimp tubs ('cause they're on the same cycle) and spathaphylums in the aggregate barrel. These take up the Nitrates. Parameters are good, but the bioload is relatively low. The murray's are still under 8"long, so I'll have to have a secondary biofilter/plants system ready at all times.
I still haven't worked out how to use this solar HW panel to keep fish water temps up this Winter.
The 2 ton of water is easier to keep warm and manage than the little tubs. Because of this I'm going to (somehow) use the HW system to heat a thermal mass and maintain an ambient temp in the insulated fish shed.
So, there's plenty to do when you get here.
I'm about three or four thousand kilometres SOUTH of NORTH QUEENSLAND. Aim just North of Melbourne, but don't hit the Murray River. You might hurt a cod or rainbow fish.
Sophie and I picked 34kg (75lbs) of Josephine pears of my little tree today. Pick the Packham tomorrow. Have two pears for pollination. Between the pheromone trap and the chooks scratching, we had zero loss to codling moth/grubs.
Nerida processed 11kg tomatoes today. Tomorrow we poach some pears and freeze them.
Nerida processed 11kg tomatoes today. Tomorrow we poach some pears and freeze them.
Beautiful sunny autumn days now, but the nights are getting chilly, so I ordered a longsleeved, red, MFK tee for each of us.
