Ray:
History is one of my passions and when I got into the "Tax Industry" I
started researching taxation issues and History from the Whiskey
Rebellion forward. Very complex issue but until someone takes one of the
States imposing this tax to Federal Court it's de facto legal.
It's been 20 years since I had an aquarium then a 55 and 20 were at a
rummage sale, my Lady saw them and knew I used to breed angels and the
rest is "history".
It wasn't the common sump that I was told wouldn't work by members of
the local Aquarium club but the idea that I could breed angels,
livebearers and inverts in the same water/temp. conditions and only
rarely give the tanks a light cleaning. I was also told the way I set up
the filtration wouldn't work either. None of them seemed to object to
cheap/free young fish and shrimp though ;)
I like community tanks with lots of variety and the tanks in the living
room have to be as much furniture/decoration as anything else or there
will be a lack of domestic harmony.
Wooden hoods are next on my list. Oak veneer plywood with several coats
of spar varnish. Overlapping on the front and side to cover the fact
that we have black and wood grain trimmed tanks together.
I've never used U/V and don't plan on it unless I decide to start a
marine reef tank.
The main problem I found with long term low maintenance is Phosphate
buildup. Charcoal will reduce a rapid buildup but hornwort and good
lighting will keep it and Nitrates low. I've been experimenting with
using a "daylight" and a "warm white" PAR 38 type CFLs in the sump/fry
tank with hornwort. The hornwort grows like crazy and I can harvest a 5
quart ice cream pail a month out of it, the "fluffy" blue-green algae
also seem to like that combination and the fry love it. Very little of
the black stringy stuff but that mostly grows on the top layer of
floating wort and gets tossed out anyway. Seems to keep the algae down
in the main tank even though it gets a couple of hours direct sunlight
from the back every day. They're going against an interior wall and
won't get any direct sunlight once moved.
The only filtration I use other then an external power filter when I
need to use charcoal is an undergravel with a layer of the pink filter
material completely covering it and a mix of fine gravel and silica sand
about 2" deep with powerheads. Loaches and cory cats will keep the sand
from getting too compacted. When I tore down the 55 years ago I had used
filter floss to cover the undergravel plates and there was still very
little water resistance and no compacting of the sand.
We're renting with option to buy and if we do buy I can see a hole in
the floor and a fiberglass sump in the basement with all the noisy pumps
moved down there and breeder tanks too. It's hard to pass up tanks, etc.
when I see them on rummages and thrift stores..
Tim
On 9/3/2012 9:04, sevenspringss@wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Many thanks for adding more very knowledgable incite into this
> out-of-state
> taxation issue, as a tax consultant. I hadn't taken the opportunity to
> read your message until after I replied to Donna's and Larry's posts,
> but now
> that I did, I note your message coincides with what I was trying to get
> across. I'm not 100% sure that everything I wrote was completely
> accurate, but
> it's the gist of what I know as a sometimes out-of-state buyer of
> merchandise
> bought in other surrounding states. Almost looks as though you're saying
> that this whole issue revolves around whether one buy's "on line" no
> matter
> where one's residence is, rather than buying via a "phone order" with
> one's
> residence being the deciding factor. Some outfits will try anything
> when a
> new venue of placing orders enters into the picture. Perhaps going
> back to
> the placing of phone orders might be the prudent thing to do. barring
> taking
> these companies to court with all the red tape involved.
>
> As for your using a common sump for your two tanks, there absolutely no
> reason this can't very successfully be done. It's done all the time by
> hobbyist having large fish rooms housing many tanks. It's very common
> for these
> hobbyist to plumb up to 30, 40 or more tanks to one large sump, as a
> recirculating filtration system employed by all these aquariums. One
> major drawback
> in all this though, is that if one tank develops a disease in it, it's
> very
> likely it could spread to another tank. While a U/V unit in line can
> greatly reduce (perhaps even eliminate) most diseases -- with pristine
> water free
> of pathogens, there's no further stimuli for the fishes' immune
> systems to
> continue in a high state of activity, resulting in the immunities to
> disease
> to become next to non-existant. Then, whenever introducing a fish
> carrying
> (but immune to) a disease is placed with these fishes, even after a
> lengthy
> quarantine period, the resident fishes will contract the carried
> disease as
> a very decimating issue. I can recommend using your common sump --
> especially as you've been maintaining your fishes without problems up
> until now, and
> appear more than knowledgable enough to do so -- but would warn against
> the use of a U/V unit.
>
> Ray</HTML>
>
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