Dec. Meeting

[SCOTT]

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Better a lone Asian than a roving gang!

[MikeWhoTruong]

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i feel like the lone asian alot at scotts, quoc watch out, scott has alot of asian jokes. hahaha

[eklikewhoa]

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thanks for the heads up but i probably wont be able to make this. have a friend's grandfather's memorial to go to.

been in the house on disability for so long i didnt even know tomorrow is friday.  8O

[cichlidsooner]

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Sorry i missed out on the party!! Us real rednecks bowl on friday nights, hope the moss wall went well and y'all had a good time.

Fish room. hahaha. Scott has a store pretending to be a garage.

[Ramius]

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It was koo..

But as a note of reference..

Building a moss wall is  ALOT more work than what you might think :P

[Brownsnoutuk]

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Especially if you cant sew...  

[Ramius]

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hahahaha I should be a surgeon.. that was the best stitching eeeevar =)

[eklikewhoa]

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so where are the pictures?

[Ramius]

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hahah, well actually.. I forgot to bring my camera to the event, but I did take some pictures of the wall once I got home, I left the camera on my kitchen table though so I won't be able to upload them here until tomorrow night.

Jerry took some with his camera phone he might be able to upload them before I can.

Duuuuude, You gotta see this puffer Scott has.. its got people eyes and it's the size of a cantaloupe. It ate a snail, shell and all!  8O

[eklikewhoa]

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yeah i know i missed out on some fun, thanks for rubbing it in.

one day soon i will go check out scott's fish room, i got some ramshorn and lots of mts i could bring for tour fee  

[jbicb3]

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These are the pics taken with my phone last night.

[eklikewhoa]

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what tank is that for david?

[Ramius]

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It's going in the *whispers so Scott can't hear* 20 long.

We made two of those sheets, stitched them together long ways and I caulked them into the tank this morning. I'm told I should give everything 48 hours to set up so Monday I'll fill the tank and take pictures of everything.

I've got 3-4 of those Danio glo-fish that are pregnant, the plan is to put them in that tank to drop the eggs and see what comes out.

I'm curious about two things

1, if they will breed true and keep their bright colors
2, if any of them got freaky and boofed a different color fish to make a rainbow-glo-danio =)

[eklikewhoa]

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are you misting the moss to keep them saturated? on one of the sites i saw that you could use suction cups to hold the moss wall up so why caulk?

oh and i read up on those glo-fish things and it looks like they are bred with genes or something like that from a jellyfish to give them their flourescant glow. not real sure on how its done and how it gets into the fish but good luck with breeding them.

[Ramius]

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What I did was kept them underneath a wet newspaper until I caulked them into the tank.. and the original plan was to use suction cups but after talking with Scott.. the suction cups would leave a gap big enough to let a fish get behind it and get caught.

So what I ended up doing was



The bottom is probably going to stay bare for the breeding stage, I will probably put a small amount of gravel near the bottom of the wall though just to make sure nothing can swim behind it from the underside.

Right now I have a cover on the tank and a bowl of water in there, I was afraid to sprinkle water on the moss because it might make the caulk too wet to set up.. but I might end up doing that tomorrow depending on how dry it feels when I get home.

I also have to figure out how to make a raised floor with that mesh material for when the danios start dropping the eggs. I might stick a couple rocks or something in the corners to act as pillars.