Moontanman

Nancy's surgery went well, I came home to get her a few things. Thanks for all the well wishes! 

Good luck!

All the best to your wifey Moontanman.

Brilliant mate - that's called diamagnetism isn't it? I remember seeing frogs levitating above superconductors... Ain't Science amazing!

I trashed it and bought a new fixture for less than the ballast cost me. It's a T12 but it gives off plenty of light.. 

Try looking into LED replacements for the T12 fixture, they are available online. LED's will give you more eye pleasing color rendering (look for 80 CRI or 4000K color temperature) and you will quickly get return on your investment as they consume a fraction of the energy of the traditional fluorescent or incandescent fixtures (easly 100+ lumens per 1 watt with the new LED emitters)

I have 750 LEDs of various colors on the aquarium for plant growth but the light makes the fish and plants look funky. The Fluorescent is just to make the light look more natural. Plants require light that is not particularly pleasing to the eye, mostly red and blue, so the LEDs are mostly red and blue. With marine tanks it become even more important to have very blue shifted light, shallow water plants and corals still use red light but below 33 feet there are no red wavelengths. If you cut your self diving lower than 33 or more feel your blood looks fluorescent green. 

I once had a Saeng motorcycle windshield made of polycarbonate, great stuff but generally too easily scratched for aquarium use. Lexan will break, I hit a car broadside and the windshield shattered like thousands of tiny plastic sparkles, still remember it clearly to this day watching the windshield turn inside out and exploding...   Acrylic is commonly used in aquariums now days due to it's light weight and resistance to breaking compared to glass. 

It appears to be about $400/metre here for 500mm diameter... expensive. How about finding translucent tubing, like thick polypropylene, and cut/fit acrylic windows into them? More work but maybe less cost.

The design really wouldn't allow that, using plastic barrels would be easier and much cheaper. It may be the direction i go to demonstrate the water flow patterns..  

ASAP

"The atmosphere was a ten-bar mixture of helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, neon and other noble gasses." - Story is great but only helium and neon are noble gasses in that list.

Point taken, I should have been more precise.

i have always wanted to try fishing

We take great cares to sterilise our ballast water to avoid contamination of Eco-systems with alien sea-life. Looks as if someone was not being too careful. Hopefully the reports are wrong - invasive species are not good

They are here I caught several... 

Post a link Moontanman. Also, I hope you feel better man.

We do have the fish you are talking about, we call them sculpins.

Many different species as well, the Mottled sculpin is my favorite, they are small and can be kept with reasonably sized fishes...

My little spotted bull head catfish are doing great. They are about 1" long now. putting on size and weight at the great rate!

Hope everything is well.

Or do you just like hospital food ?

You got me, it's that pureed food!

I woke up one night, in a panic attack and scrounged some scissors that has been left where i could get them and cut my hair... 3 am standing in the bathroom chopping off my long white hair. I thought the nurse was going to freak when she walked in and saw me...

hope all goes well Moon

Hope its just routine and not something major.

Looking forward to your rejoining us.

Best wishes and hope your problems are minimised.

I got a flu shot quite some time ago that seemed to give me the flu (probably already sick with it), and for many years I didn't get the vaccines. I was lucky for a long time, but a few years back it clobbered me good, bed for six days straight (Netflix and tea are all I remember). I get a flu every year now. There's no co-pay either, so it's all free.

Glad you're better, Moon. The flu isn't like mending from a wound where you're just limited, or recuperating with bed rest so you can read or whittle. Flu can't be enjoyed even the least little bit.

Interferon taught me that it's not the virus that gives you hell it's your body because it kicks your immune system into overdrive and that's what flu symptoms are: a response to interferons.

Any alcohol will do - it's 0930 here and I am considering opening the bottle of plum liqueur at the back of the drinks cabinet

Mix it with everything in there.

Time to get all the Leonard Cohen stuff out

There shouldn't be any more paradigm shifts with Windows now they are doing a continual, as and when, upgrading process in small steps. Hopefully, no more steep learning curves.

I hope not, my last one was XP

You've had a very big jump to make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgCyRcVf2Fw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmbzeUVcUpM

It was Glen and Abraham! Oh no!

Did you see my post in the official jokes forum?

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/9413-the-official-jokes-section/?p=951982

Seems like the guy knows what he's talking about but frankly I can't get around his accent thing.

It's a speech impediment, he does do closed captioned on his videos.

Sounds horrific - but glad you and yours are OK. How is the community taking it - pulling together or falling apart

pulling together for the most part. standing water and washed out roads, flooding and down trees are still a problem.

Take care mate. Man is helpless in the face of what Nature sometimes brings.

The flooding has been horrific...

I can't imagine what a serious flood can do but it must be terrible. We had one here 10 years ago but it was nothing compared to what you guys have there.

Congratulations Moontanman!!!

Best wishes and hearty congratulations mate

congratulations i hope you had a great time