Daily Moan

[Troy]

^ Yeah, but I was about to order a parrot and crutch! "Pieces of eight", "Shiver my timbers" etc..

[Troy]

Sick leave is less than full pay? Ouch.

How did you reach that conclusion?

It is full pay for the first 90 days and then, at my age, I'm put to pasture with a sickness pension.

[Joe 90]

It's been that hot today I fear I may have gotten sunstroke!

An ice cold bath felt hot ffs!

Never had a day like this in the UK before.

[Neverna]

No need to go to Spain for a summer holiday, Joe. Stay in Blighty.

[Salsa dancer]

It's been that hot today I fear I may have gotten sunstroke!

An ice cold bath felt hot ffs!

Never had a day like this in the UK before.

You had heat exhaustion. I have had it here in Oz, with a thumping headache, but after some suffering, a vomit often ends that.

Genuine heatstroke has a mortality rate of between 40% and 60%. One does however wonder what happens to those on the borderline between the two.

[Slimmer]

I am here all on my own

[kingwilly]

And what was your former nic?

[david44]

I am here all on my own

Anti perspirant helps some red vertically challenged gentlemen find new chums on GRINDR

[Neverna]

And what was your former nic?

Slimmer is Fluke.

[kingwilly]

Slimmer is Fluke.

Oh good, I was correct to red him then.

[Edmond]

Moan.

How fast time goes.

Just listening to 50 Cent's album Get Rich or....



First started listening to his stuff in 2002. Which is still like modern fire.


To shift the time, this is equiv to me being in 2002, and listening to music from the 1970s. And thinking it's modern fire. I wasn't even alive in the 1970s.


Time goes too fast.

[misskit]

It only gets worse.

[Joe 90]

I hear that Kitty!

Jeez time dragged in my youth or at least I thought it did.

Nowadays a year goes in a blink of an eye!

[VocalNeal]

I wasn't even alive in the 1970s.

If you can remember the '60's you weren't there. I believe is the quote.

[Edmond]

I was at Sasha & Digweed in 99, I've been told.

[VocalNeal]

I was at Sasha & Digweed in 99, I've been told.

Well there ya go. I'm more of a Caroline and John Peel guy. With a touch of Whispering Bob Harris

[Edmond]

The massacre.


So I buyz a new fish tank a week ago, 50*30*35cm, fills it up with the garden hose stuck through the window, the next day get 5 silky sucker fish, 1 dies, a few days later, get 12 lil fellas. A few die.

All good on the western front for a few days, the lil fellas sure do like hanging out with the bubbles above the oxygen pumpy filter thingamajiggo.


Wake up this morning to scenes of the Somme.

100% casualty rate.

The only living things left alive are the plants and the lil water snails that came along with them.







What could have caused such a nocturnal tragedy?

The pump wasn't on overnight.... oxygen starvation? It needs another 2 or so oxygen pumps going on during the day?

Another possibility?

[misskit]

^ Aquarium keeping 101

Let your aquarium sit for a couple of days after you fill it. There is chlorine in the water that needs to evaporate. Also, the temperature has to regulate to room temperature.

When you add your fish, you have to float them in the bag they came in for about 30 minutes to allow the temperature to adjust to your tank temperature.

If you don’t do these things it causes too much shock to your critters.

Try again!

[VocalNeal]

- Chlorinated hose water? Let it stand in a bucket for a couple of days before adding
- You need an Air Stone on the end of your bubbler pipe and leave it on 24/7.

[cyrille]

Maybe find out what tf you should be doing before more deaths.

This is different from tooling around with your Scoopy.

[Mendip]

^ All of the above.

Plus, why not have the pump on overnight? That is the most important time because the plants won't be photosynthesising and releasing oxygen into the water.

There's no point in having extra pumps on during the day, just keep one pump on all the time, especially at night.

I think lack of oxygen is the culprit because if it was temperature shock the fish would have died previously.

I regularly top up our tank direct from a hose, but thinking about it we have water from a bore so it won't be chlorinated.

The airstone on the air pipe is essential to make the bubbles smaller to get the oxygen distributed into the water.

That's a high ratio of sucker fish to the others? Those sucker fish get big.

[Edmond]

Cheers, all the ranch's water comes from a bore (through a big ass filtering system) and is ejected at a pressure that could strip paint, foked if I know how

Plus, why not have the pump on overnight?

I don't know. I go around and switch off all lights, lamps and fishtank pumps when hitting the fartsack.

There's no point in having extra pumps on during the day, just keep one pump on all the time, especially at night.

Cheers. Will buy a few more of those lil balls for the one pump and have them lined up along the length of it. And will leave them on at night. and will buy an other species of little fish that aren't all 'We're all Princessy and need oxygen to live'

why not have the pump on overnight? That is the most important time because the plants won't be photosynthesising and releasing oxygen into the water.

Lulu something new everyday.

Cheers Cap'ain.

[Mendip]

^ Our tank has two switches, one for the pump, one for the light.

Just like in the bedroom, we turn off the light at night but don't switch off the air supply.

[Edmond]

Our tank has two switches, one for the pump, one for the light.

Have a skiz at the fancy fooker.


Separate light switch from pump switch. Check.

[VocalNeal]

Five Fish and a Funeral?