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Very cute little fish there. Adding an RO water system is going to allow you to have lots of fish that just don't fair well in the higher PH tanks. I'm excited to see the babies. Good luck with the spawn.

Re: Evolution of a nano 9.5 gallon long Very cool looking little shellie tank. I like the mosses. Did you buffer for PH to get it higher? If so, the plants don't seem to have minded the change.

Wow...looking awsome Chad. Everything is beautiful. Great looking planted tank. I love the positioning of your red plants in the layout.

Hi Tom :)  The format of the cruise is "you are on vacation...no schedules, no must dos (except for the fire/emergency drill the 1st day)".  You can chose to do reserved seating for dining at a certain time (like 6:00pm) or you can do walk in sit down anytime from like 7:30am till 10:00pm (I...

DMD...thank you for sharing in our adventure.  And yes, this was/is one of the highlights of our life and travels.  We so enjoyed this cruise and the whole experience of Alaska.  We want to go back already.  Everyone kept saying that the Alaska cruises are the most repeated cruises and I can now...

Thanks dwarfpike. How much motion you feel depends on your location in the ship. Midships and a little lower in the ship (on this ship that would be like deck 9 and below) you mostly don't feel anything really, at least I didn't. At the rear of the ship like our cabin was you do feel the...

The trip WAS a lot of fun. This is only the 2nd big trip John and I have ever taken together in 30 years of marriage (the 1st one was paid for by my work as a bonus...we got to go to Italy). John has worked since he was a wee young lad...and has put up with a household of all women for all...

Thanks again Chad...and no, no 3rd party...I used Proshow Producer to put that together. I've had Proshow Gold for a while but it would not handle my new camera format and was kinda cumbersome to use. Proshow made an upgrade offer I could not refuse. As for the cruise...if and when you decide...

Thanks so much Chad...twas me did the video.  I finally found a good video editor program again...yipee. OH and I do apologize some for the video portions...I'm having to learn how to move and videotape at the same time, often I pan too fast or off track...its not easy with the camera as its...

Well, it only took me a week to get this together.  We will put this on DVD for our home collections also.  We had a great time on this trip and it was a once in a lifetime thing for us.  This was John's retirement vacation trip and we have been waiting since December for this to arrive.  We had...

Another great video with lots of fish I've never seen. Big guys and really beautiful. Thanks Mel for sharing your beautiful tanks and thanks Shaun for taking the time to visit Mel and do the video. Great work.

Hahahaha thanks Madness....see, I said I didn't know about the person personally...LOL...got it...she she she. She said she would be posting pics a little later today.

I'm not sure and I don't know the owner or anything but I do think he is a pretty reputable guy from what I have seen him post on FB. I have, as one of my facebook pages, a group called American Cichlids. This is a page devoted to one man's, Dan Ye-Jennings, fish mostly. He has some beautiful...

2nd the congrats on both the spawns and the wedding...nice :)

I am unsure of requirements for discus but I do tend to overfiltrate all my tanks. All my tanks over 33G have canisters as well as HOB's on them. The only tank without a canister/HOB setup is my planted tank which has 2 canisters only on it. That tank is a 75G tank, pretty heavily planted...