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Very interesting thread. Your brain seems to be doing fine without eating fish. There was another thread I just read about a science fair project using fish. This on a very small scale would be perfect. What do you think? I can't remember who had the thread about the science project, but I'm going to go back and look and tell him to look at this.

Edit: It's JayFeather9 titled "science project".

I hope you have quit losing fish. That is disheartening. What is the temp of the tank? I was just wondering if it would help any to increase aeration. Just a thought.
 

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I should totally try that! We can answer each
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I should totally try that! We can answer each
Question wrong 3 times before it counts it as wrong, but then we can do a 'similar exercise' three more times after that, giving us a total of 9 wrong answers. It's a horrible system, but I love it LOL
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common, we all tried to make triangles in our scantron test lol
 
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Very interesting thread. Your brain seems to be doing fine without eating fish. There was another thread I just read about a science fair project using fish. This on a very small scale would be perfect. What do you think? I can't remember who had the thread about the science project, but I'm going to go back and look and tell him to look at this.

Edit: It's JayFeather9 titled "science project".

I hope you have quit losing fish. That is disheartening. What is the temp of the tank? I was just wondering if it would help any to increase aeration. Just a thought.
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I haven't seen that thread yet. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

The temp is at 80. I have two bubble walls and a 'waterfall' that turns on for 15 minutes every hour. So I've ruled out aeration.
 
mhmmm just a thought, how many gallons is your pumps made for and what is the recommended air pump for a 1000g tank?
 
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Maxima - I don't remember lol. It's a huge pump and I have two airpumps with two air wands each on the tank so it's not aeration.


Everything has been going well. No more deaths for a while. I'm going to need to set up some lights over the tank because the Koi are loosing their color. And they are growing bigger. I'll catch a few to take pictures eventually . My green pepper plants are putting out lots of little green peppers. Also my green chilI has new flowers on it. I've harvested dozens of huge cucumbers. Yellow squash kept getting blossom rot so I pulled it out. Tomatoes have just begun flowering so I'm going to pollinate all of them today. They've gotten huge. The basil just got a big trim and is looking better. And I'm going to pull up my coriander and spinach soon.
 

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Fish are doing well so far. A few seem to be fatter than others which is really interesting.
 
That is so cool... I am working on a blueprint to build one of these... thnx for the idea/inspiration!!!! but wait I need $$$$ to do this... LOL... stupid $$$$ just kidding, LOL
 
These aren't very high quality fish, are they...? Have you lost any more lately?

That's a really cute goldfish!
 
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Hahaha sorry Apple! Lemme know if you have questions.

These aren't very high quality fish, are they...? Have you lost any more lately?

That's a really cute goldfish!
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It depends on what you call 'high quality'. No they aren't any sort of special strain of Koi like UtsurI or Tancho. But they are good quality fish. Colorwise all mine are fairly dull because I'm still in the process of setting up their sun lights. Koi, like goldfish, loose color when kept in the dark. Their tank doesn't get much light from the grow lights in the beds so a lot of them have turned yellow or white.

Thanks! She isn't supposed to be in there though.
 
I dunno, they just don't seem to have nice shape. Maybe I'm just used to goldfish LOL

Weeeell, you could always just send her to me when I get my pond going ;D
 
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Ooh shape wise! I thought you meant color. The shape is distorted because I'm holding them and was trying to take pictures at a funny angle. If I ever get a glass picture taking tank I'll have to take some real pictures of them.

LOL Hm.. it's tempting. I almost put her in my 70g today.
 
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Haha I have seen it. I didn't really have anything useful to add though so I didn't comment . And I won't add her to my 70g because goldfish and plants don't mix well.
 

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Oh yeah. She's munch them and uproot them lol I forgot about that >.<
 
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Thanks! Currently I'm in the process of tearing it down because I'm about to move. But I intend to set it up again on a much larger scale. This was just a test run .
 
So, are you keeping all the koi, or no? Can you bring the goldfish and give her to me?
 
Setting it up on a bigger scale? What do you plan to do, feed the whole collage body? Lol
 
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So, are you keeping all the koi, or no? Can you bring the goldfish and give her to me?
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Nope. Everything is being sold. Well.. maybe. I doubt I will though lol. Someone wants the goldfish already.
Setting it up on a bigger scale? What do you plan to do, feed the whole collage body? Lol
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Lol it wasn't that big. Kinda smallish lol. I dunno what I plan on doing. It was kinda fun. I'm going to set up green houses to do it instead of using lights. Cause my new house has 5.5 acres of open land. So I don't want to mow all that lol. And I'll probably try to grow white shrimp in it this time.
 
Awwww, I called her first! D=

You need goats for your new house!
 
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Hahaha your about an hour late ;D. If she doesn't sell this week I'll send her to you. How does that sound?

No! I don't want goats.
 
Hahaha your about an hour late ;D. If she doesn't sell this week I'll send her to you. How does that sound?

No! I don't want goats.
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You'd have to keep her until I got my pond going lol I wouldn't ask you to do that unless you really wanted to. I was more or less joking lol

Whats wrong goats!??
 

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How about cows?
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Yuck!!! I had cows around when I grew up. You have no idea how much methane they produce ;D. Besides, they wouldn't be able to survive on the rough growth that grows down in FL. Goats would do better.
You'd have to keep her until I got my pond going lol I wouldn't ask you to do that unless you really wanted to. I was more or less joking lol

Whats wrong goats!??
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;D I was joking too haha. I know you don't have room for her. She'd barely be able to turn around in your 10g.

I dunno. They aren't so cute when they are big. I have lots of pictures of goats that I took recently... maybe I should post them.
 
Yuck!!! I had cows around when I grew up. You have no idea how much methane they produce ;D. Besides, they wouldn't be able to survive on the rough growth that grows down in FL. Goats would do better.
;D I was joking too haha. I know you don't have room for her. She'd barely be able to turn around in your 10g.

I dunno. They aren't so cute when they are big. I have lots of pictures of goats that I took recently... maybe I should post them.
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Theres a lot of cows in South-Central Florida! They're like Starbucks DC.... Cows on every corner

Could you imagine her and my other little guy, and the Clown and the Endlers all in the 10 gallon? OMG I think I would die!!
 
I should just drive around one day with my camera on when I go back home and show you LOL
 
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LOL I've already been down there haha. Remember, I bought a house? It's near a horse farm!!
 
Yeah, but see, I live about 3 or 4 hours south of there, in a city type area, but with a decent amount of land that can't be built on because of scrub jays, tortoises, and wet lands. And we're near I75.
 
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I know lol. I drove past/through your college ;D! I'm moving to Gainesville outside the city so I'll be surrounded by farms. Course the neighborhood is nice. The house next to mine just sold for 1.75 mil.
 
I'm not talking about Pensacola. I'm talking about south of Sarasota

Daaaaaaaang!
 
I know lol. I drove past/through your college ;D! I'm moving to Gainesville outside the city so I'll be surrounded by farms. Course the neighborhood is nice. The house next to mine just sold for 1.75 mil.
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You drove THROUGH the collage? That's not very nice.:shock:
 

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I'm not talking about Pensacola. I'm talking about south of Sarasota

Daaaaaaaang!
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:shock: Where?
You drove THROUGH the collage? That's not very nice.:shock:
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Why not?? I pointed and laughed at all the poor college students having to go to class while I was on vacation.
AND he didn't come visit me or bring me any goodies! Rude, right??
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Why would I bring you goodies?
 
:shock: Where?


Why not?? I pointed and laughed at all the poor college students having to go to class while I was on vacation.
Why would I bring you goodies?
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*Gives map* Side note: If you ever go to Ocala, STAY AWAY FROM THE VILLAGES! You'll never get out alive *shivers*

Screw you and you're vacation!

Ummmmm.... 'Cause you love me? =D
 
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These are all babies of my previous fish. I want to say I have around 30 left to sell.
 
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Update! Aquaponics has been taken apart for my move. I left all my growbeds and tanks there. All the remaining Koi came with me. I intend to start up an Aquaponics here in Florida after I get settled in. I was thinking of growing out White Shrimp since that should be fairly profitable. Just an idea though.
 

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