OzzyTheOscar wrote:Yeah I'm looking at another filter too,suggestions? ...

In the upper right of the page you will see a banner pop up for swiss tropicals. I would recommend one of their tower filters, or a matten filter.

I have two oscars in a 75 with a number of other cichlids, south american as well as a couple of lone victorians, and a couple of africans. I keep the bottom of the tank littered with driftwood old pottery stones etc. I have a breeding coloney of ancistrus in the tank at the moment. The only thing i...

Not really all that complicated. Carve the dried clay to whatever level of detail you want to duplicate. cast one side cast the other side at that point you have a mold that you can pres the two slabs of clay into. let them set a little and the plaster pulls moisture from the clay acting as a releas...

Dried clay being much easier to carve then stone, here is what I am working on now. I have made a number of clay clyinders which I am letting dry. I will then carve them and make plaster casts, which I can then press clay slabs into to make copies of the original carving, I am hoping to duplicate th...

At the catfish cataclysm this topic was touched on briefly, our speaker indicated he had had no hybridization issues when he mixed short nosed with long nosed species, but had seen some hybridization when he kept short nosed species together or long nosed species together. Admittedly this is anecdot...

Would they add any toxicity to the clay? Or are they safe for fish? I have used mason dyes with cement that I used to make a structure for a friend. we did not have any problems with toxicity. You could research the metals used in the dyes. I would not use any of the greens that I found as they all...

Check with him and see if would be willing to let you mix masons dyes into your clay.

stone carving
painting
drawing
reading
AA meetings.
Helping to run my local fish club.'

Oh and getting back into ceramics

So are those the remainder of what you made with the inferior clay?

http://www.petsolutions.com/C/Hamsters-Gerbils-Mice-Cages/I/Kritter-Keeper.aspx?CAWELAID=520009670000361423&CAGPSPN=pla&catargetid=520009670000047978&cadevice=c&gclid=CIDoyfWZu8kCFQ2QaQodI_kC1Q they nest so you can take several. You don't have to worry about assembly, They are light,...

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Oh and a few I made from crushed stone, and 2 part food safe epoxy

I have about 16 from plecocaves.com
I have about 8 I carved out of stone.
I have 20 to thirty I made from green bamboo
plus assorted pieces I picked up at goodwill ect that function as caves.

Must be keeping wels catfish. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/medium_1x_/public/1781574_1030738776940119_2644250838198521355_o.jpg%3Fitok%3DW853sLUP&imgrefurl=http://www.popsci.com/one-seriously-big-catfish&h=900&w=1200&tbnid=Oa...

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Welcome. good luck with the fry.

about 4 years ago I bought a meter cube of poret foam in various ppis. For biological filtration, you can not convince me there is anything better. Mechanical filtration is another story. Almost all of my tanks have HMF fiters Those that don't use poret in HOB style filters. In many of my larger tan...

My son calls us fishgeeks, go figure.

My wife and I share a fish room. She is really in love with the long finned form of the Ancistrus, especially in the gold/albino forms. She has been trying for a while to spawn them without much luck, So a friend of mine loans her a proven pair of albino longfin Ancistrus. A no-brainer spawn you wou...

My first thought on reading that was to check the publication date for 1April. No such luck.

...I must admit that much of this endeavor to make my own spawning caves ... is driven not just by the fact that they aren't available locally in stores (I can find them on the internet), but really also "just because" - to try something new and to expand my skill base, to express my imag...

Well our guest speaker often chimes in, we have even had a few speakers win the keychain.. We have a rule that you can win multiple times, but you only get one keychain, so after you have your keychain the game is then to block others from getting a keychain.

I don't know if you have heard of Charlie Grimes or not, but when sponge filters were first coming out, he decided to make his own rather then purchasing from an aquarium store to save money. He ended up finding sheets of foam that were designed to be used for patio furniture. A couple of days of wo...

I see progress Eric, you have learned a couple of things not to do. After Cataclysm, I have a club member who is pretty interested in the idea of building his own caves for some catfish he has. So we are looking at building a Kiln for wood firing on his property. This will probable take through the ...

you can help the fry out of the egg by sucking them up in a turkey baster and them dumping them back in the tank.

http://www.pottery-magic.com/ceramics/pouring_mold.htm

so make a cast of what you have and then pour your ceramics. You can make multiples of a piece and try different firing processes.

Eric, I really like those two. I would love to see those fired with a wood firing process... Between the texture from the work you did, the texture from the glaze, and the stonelike nature of the finish, I think you would be really pleased. ...could they be "cooked" in a simple back yard ...

In the for what it is worth department. I travel around the state of Wi about 1 week out of 4 This week is the week. Today, I was able to spend an hour in a local park collecting alder cones, and then I was able to stop in and pick up 20 feet of bamboo in the 3 to 4 inch diameter range for under $30.

Thanks for the pointer. Did you fire your caves yet?