by CJ | Aug 9, 2009 | Journal
The fish tank lights are working. The fish are fine. I got a little work done. Tomorrow I’m planning to really bear down and get going. We’ve had glorious weather: 72 to 85 degrees daytime, in August, no less. I went out and watered everything, just...
by CJ | Aug 9, 2009 | Journal
The fish tank lights are working. The fish are fine. I got a little work done. Tomorrow I’m planning to really bear down and get going. We’ve had glorious weather: 72 to 85 degrees daytime, in August, no less. I went out and watered everything, just...
by CJ | Aug 8, 2009 | Journal
You’re probably tired of my rant about trackpoints… :lol:… But for those of you who are interested, this is how to start/run a marine tank. There are 2 paths: 1, an all-in-one, an aquapod or its ilk: will handle gobies and blennies, hermits;...
by CJ | Aug 7, 2009 | Journal
An online survey by users show a majority prefer a trackpoint (pointing stick) mouse. Reviewers are 90 percent otherwise. What’s wrong with this picture. I went out to various sites to look at laptops…and all the help-me-choose features completely omit the...
by CJ | Aug 7, 2009 | Journal
Couldn’t believe it. It burned for 4 hours and died. We now have a new lamp, and we took the metal halide’s ballast apart to be sure the starter hadn’t blown. Must have been new-thingie-syndrome. One more trip to the Valley, but this time at least we...
by CJ | Aug 6, 2009 | Journal
…after getting a new one..(or its parts)…it didn’t fit. We did get a foxfaced rabbitfish (one-spot variety) to eat the cursed caulerpa weed (see Discovery Channel: Killer Algae) which has been the bane of this tank setup. But the tang hated him. We...
by CJ | Aug 4, 2009 | Journal
I got a little work done this morning. We went out shopping for hose washers (yep) so we don’t have a leak in the back yard. But a little after that I came down with a rare case of the hungries…I mean, if I didn’t get food in the next fifteen...
by CJ | Aug 3, 2009 | Journal
Jane spent the time trying to get the marine tank into shape: I came back to discover she’d bravely resolved the plumbing problems with the tank, moved and cleaned all the equipment, worked out the water quality problem…What more can you ask? I have more...
