Man, I see what my problem with them was. The first article you list from cichlid-forum.com lists them as “A Beginner’s Dwarf”. I never had much luck with all those so-called beginner fish. Drove me nuts, too. “Here, Steve, take these [Aphyosemion] gardneri home with you. You should have a bunch of fry for us […]
Lets clarify what you mean by “cO3 levels”. While CO3 has been used to designate Carbonate, I’m not sure if this is what you are talking about since the more common term for Carbonate Hardness is KH. If the “between 80 and 100ppm” is for Carbonate Hardness, then this is nothing to be […]
In my freshwater aquarium, I have been having a problem with very high c03 levels(Between 80 and 100 PPM), however my co2 levels stay low - nearly unreadable. I currently have some live plants - a species of dwarf lily that I am not sure of its proper genus(And how it can be called a […]
So after my PWC’s the last couple of days and the added crushed coral to the filter my pH now seems to have settled to 7. Yesterday when I tested it was at 6.8. None of the fish seem affected and all I did was add water and crushed coral i didn’t […]
Thanks Byron,
That is a great picture of the 33gallon, although at first glance the Cardinal Tetra is the only fish I saw - I had to zoom in to count the other 11. I was expecting a “crowded” tank after reading your message. I’d like to have several dozen Tetras in my 55g eventually,I’m […]
A SNIP from my blog article “Planted Tank - So You Want A Planted Tank!”… http://goldlenny.blogspot.com/2008/10/planted-tank-so-you-want-planted-tank. html
“Another big issue some folks have with planted tanks is that oftentimes the plants will come with some snails or other critters hiding out in the plants roots or leaves. Here are a couple of sites on sanitizing and […]
Hi Eric; This may be true in High School demonstrations but in my 36 years in electronics the only two capacitors that have blown up where those in cheap Chinese Computer power supplies. The one I speak of on Motherboards just puff up or they leak some but it is rare for them to […]
I had a graphics card go when the capacitors blew once(never get an EVGA card again). Scared the heck out of my daughter…she thought someone was shooting at her *weg*. My expereince with capacitors is that they usually go with a bang. If you have a large enough one, it can actually cause […]
Ray,
Most likely the problem is heat. There are a number of fans in your computer, usually a minimum of three, though some only have two. With one serving as a case/cpu fan. To check to see if the problem may be heat, an easy check, the power supply has a fan, located near the plug […]
External drive are awesome. You can either buy one all put together or you can get your own drive and put it in an enclosure. The enclosures cost around $50-60 and hard drives are pretty cheap. You can get a terrabyte drive for under $200 now…that’s a lot of space. Both usually […]