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Post by Adkenpachi on Jan 16, 2015 15:15:46 GMT -5
Tread, my kid goes mental for the lego star wars cartoon they recently released. He has freaking everything! So much lego star wars -.-
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Post by Rook on Jan 16, 2015 18:21:39 GMT -5
OK, I need to draw on the expertise of The Underhive;
I just received a used aquarium. I know literately nothing about them. Can someone on here give me the essentials? Like what I absolutely need to have for the thing to support life. I will be going fresh-water if it matters. Don't feel afraid to describe it in childlike terms.
As always thanks in advance.
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Post by Adkenpachi on Jan 16, 2015 18:33:59 GMT -5
Google will sort you out Rook.
As far as I know you need oxygen, so a pump. And possibly heat.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jan 16, 2015 18:44:50 GMT -5
How big is the aquarium? First, give it a good cleaning with 10% bleach, then rinse it several times with water. Add gravel or sand to about an inch to inch and a half deep (give the gravel or sand a good rinsing first to get rid of dust, debris, etc.). Fill it with water, then let it sit for at least several days to get rid of any residual chlorine from the cleaning and the tap water (adding a recommended amount of de-chlorination solution may help). Set up your filtration, lighting system, and heater. Check the pH to make sure its in an acceptable range for whatever type of fish you want to have in it. Add some plants to it and then add in some Cycle solution to start establishing beneficial bacteria. You may or may not have to set up an air supply (small pump and an air stone)--I usually don't fuss with them, but they can be pretty. After several weeks start adding a few fish at a time every couple of weeks until you've established the community you want. Make sure to have some scavengers (catfish, Plecostomus, etc.) to help with making sure that food is consumed, and don't overfeed.
I need to get my fish tanks back up and running; I might give it a go this spring...
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Jan 16, 2015 18:45:44 GMT -5
A water pump for the size aquarium, a lamp, a bunch of bedding and toys, some form of tank cleaning (can be in the pump as a UV light or something), and depending on the fish, climate control in the pump - a thermometer sticker on the glass goes with that. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but then again, I don't keep fish.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jan 16, 2015 20:28:47 GMT -5
I've had bad luck with UV sterilizers... They tend to break, and when they do work they tend to kill off beneficial bacteria as much as they kill off the bad gribbly 'uns. Both of my tanks started experiencing massive fungal blooms after several months of running UV systems, which ultimately caused both tanks to collapse.
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Post by jenburdoo on Jan 16, 2015 20:49:50 GMT -5
Had my first guitar lesson in several years today. I'm gonna try to stick with it this time. Right now trying to learn C, F, and G chords. It looks like those and D will enable me to play most of the songs I know.
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Post by Woz on Jan 16, 2015 21:36:59 GMT -5
Or tries to sell you toys. Star Wars was the film that really started the film toy tie in's. Film companies just weren't that interested in film merch' (which is why they let George Lucas the rights to all the Star Wars merch).
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Jan 16, 2015 22:06:25 GMT -5
Today, I got some boxes of these guys. The kits are excellent in terms of detail, and are relatively easy to assemble (the hands can be a bit fussy, though). In terms of their appearance, proportion, and assembly, they strongly remind me of the Dark Eldar kits, just without the stabby hooks of pain to jab you in the fingertips as you build them. They're also a bit taller and a bit bigger than GW guardsmen, since they actually have generally realistic proportions. Like most sci-fi model kits that aren't blatantly trying to be alternatives to GW minis, they don't have any real special weapons. There's just some SMGs with underslung grenade launchers, and some panzerfaust knock-offs that could be proxied for missile launchers, or meltas.
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Post by Julian Sharps on Jan 17, 2015 0:33:30 GMT -5
OK, I need to draw on the expertise of The Underhive; I just received a used aquarium. I know literately nothing about them. Can someone on here give me the essentials? Like what I absolutely need to have for the thing to support life. I will be going fresh-water if it matters. Don't feel afraid to describe it in childlike terms. As always thanks in advance. Don't use tap water. We humans can handle the level of impurities in tap water. Dogs and cats can handle the level of impurities in tap water. All the kinds of fish my sister used to keep (mostly goldfish) before upkeep became too much for her would get sick from tap water (in fact, her first pair died in a matter of hours after being put in a fishbowl full of tap water. It was kinda disturbing, her shushing us because "the fish were sleeping").
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jan 17, 2015 2:22:46 GMT -5
OK, I need to draw on the expertise of The Underhive; I just received a used aquarium. I know literately nothing about them. Can someone on here give me the essentials? Like what I absolutely need to have for the thing to support life. I will be going fresh-water if it matters. Don't feel afraid to describe it in childlike terms. As always thanks in advance. Don't use tap water. We humans can handle the level of impurities in tap water. Dogs and cats can handle the level of impurities in tap water. All the kinds of fish my sister used to keep (mostly goldfish) before upkeep became too much for her would get sick from tap water (in fact, her first pair died in a matter of hours after being put in a fishbowl full of tap water. It was kinda disturbing, her shushing us because "the fish were sleeping"). That's why I recommended using a de-chlorination solution to treat the water, and to let it set and run through the filter for a considerable amount of time before adding fish. The de-chlorination solutions typically will also chelate out heavy metals in addition to removing chlorine and chlorine by-products from the water, and also the filtration action with activated charcoal will also remove a large amount of impurities. But yeah, NEVER put fish directly into water that has just been drawn from the tap. Also, when introducing fish to the aquarium, NEVER just dump them straight in. You've got to slowly mix the water from the aquarium into the water that's in the bag they're in so as to allow them to adapt to any differences in ionic strength, otherwise you risk shocking the fish and killing them.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jan 17, 2015 2:51:34 GMT -5
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Post by Adkenpachi on Jan 17, 2015 3:14:03 GMT -5
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Post by treadiculous on Jan 17, 2015 11:25:22 GMT -5
Sounds like Trooper is the fish expert!
I have some reasonable knowledge though Trooper has covered it already.
Be patient, give each fish a territory (such as a small cave, coconut shell, or a few stones propped together) and they will become very house proud and you won't get as many fish politics / bullying issues... it's cute watching a fish clean all the stones in their cave and nice to see them choosing to swim around in the middle territory or opt to hang out in their house.
Happy fish = Healthy fish (and the other way around).
Jen: good luck with the chords! Always wish I had continued trying to play! Hope you get further and better than I did (i became a drummer instead).
Woz; how goes your WoT these days?
Adkenpachi; what is yet new cartoon series and where do I find it? (Is it responsible for the wookie gunship?)
Reds : those mini's look pretty cool, I've scoped that website before as I was curios about their titan's (before the Imperial Knights came out).
Trooper: BFG RTS WOO!.. I like the sounds of an Ork Fleet... Hur Hur Hur!
.. and did you notice the mention of TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER .. finally, the obvious step has been taken. lets hope they make a 40k version next!
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Jan 18, 2015 7:24:10 GMT -5
Today, I got some boxes of these guys. The kits are excellent in terms of detail, and are relatively easy to assemble (the hands can be a bit fussy, though). In terms of their appearance, proportion, and assembly, they strongly remind me of the Dark Eldar kits, just without the stabby hooks of pain to jab you in the fingertips as you build them. They're also a bit taller and a bit bigger than GW guardsmen, since they actually have generally realistic proportions. Like most sci-fi model kits that aren't blatantly trying to be alternatives to GW minis, they don't have any real special weapons. There's just some SMGs with underslung grenade launchers, and some panzerfaust knock-offs that could be proxied for missile launchers, or meltas. If you don't mind, I'll update the Consumer Association thread with this.
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Post by Adkenpachi on Jan 18, 2015 8:40:58 GMT -5
Its on one of the sky kids channels, it's probably on netflix and it's certainly on DVD Not sure about any wookie gunships, I'm sure they came about around the episode 2 clone wars era.
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Jan 18, 2015 9:35:27 GMT -5
Today, I got some boxes of these guys. The kits are excellent in terms of detail, and are relatively easy to assemble (the hands can be a bit fussy, though). In terms of their appearance, proportion, and assembly, they strongly remind me of the Dark Eldar kits, just without the stabby hooks of pain to jab you in the fingertips as you build them. They're also a bit taller and a bit bigger than GW guardsmen, since they actually have generally realistic proportions. Like most sci-fi model kits that aren't blatantly trying to be alternatives to GW minis, they don't have any real special weapons. There's just some SMGs with underslung grenade launchers, and some panzerfaust knock-offs that could be proxied for missile launchers, or meltas. If you don't mind, I'll update the Consumer Association thread with this. Go ahead. I'd remove Defiance Games from the recommended list, by the way. They've gained a reputation of screwing customers and other companies out of their money (me included), and don't seem to be selling anything at the moment.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Jan 18, 2015 12:01:48 GMT -5
I did, just forgot to remove the post later on.
Nearly eight years, IGMB.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Jan 19, 2015 22:22:21 GMT -5
After a reread of Eisenhorn, I've come to the conclusion that everything bad that happened in the third book was a direct result of everyone not listening to Eisenhorn. Only indirectly was anything his fault. Which is not to say that the ultimate fault wasn't his, just that if people had done what he'd told them to, most of the people would still be alive.
Oh. Spoiler alert.
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Post by jenburdoo on Jan 19, 2015 22:29:07 GMT -5
Interesting thought, Req. Isn't it largely his own fault though, that no one listens to him?
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Jan 20, 2015 9:14:22 GMT -5
No. The inciting incident of the third book is Magos Bure giving Pontius a body. Eisenhorn suggested something limited. So how about something like a mouse droid from Star Wars with a camera eye strapped to it? You knows, instead of a full android body that he can use to escape? That's the sort of common sense I'd expect from an ancient and respected magos who know how dangerous this guy is.
And after the incident on Durer (or w/e) at the beginning of the book, everyone starts disobeying simple, logical, obvious instructions. And Fischig goes to a known enemy in the Inquisition to be a tattle-tale. Why not Rorken or Ravenor? Being sick or on a ship somewhere doesn't stop you from reading your email. And Eisenhorn had already met up with Ravenor, so that would've worked out well. He then also ignores evidence he sees and hears, out of character, just to cripple Eisenhorn before the final fight.
I feel like it was all a very forced way to have everyone around him die, and that the ending was rushed. Like Abnett added so much, only to bring it all crashing to a conclusion in roughly 50 pages.
"I heard you like climaxes. So I added climaxes to the climax so you can..." Wait. In before Archer phrasing meme.
He also goes out of way way to talk up how super-awesome the Vessorine are every chance he gets/makes without saying how. Just that they're scary and awesome, and no one can survive against them even though everyone left by the time we get to that part kicks them right in their clanass. But they're still scarier than Kasrkin. Very slight Ward vibe there.
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Post by jenburdoo on Jan 20, 2015 19:55:40 GMT -5
OK, that first one was a good point. Definitely not his fault.
Finished yet another book on jungle warfare in WWII, about to start two more and already rereading a fourth (Slim's Defeat Into Victory). The one I'm looking forward is Tank Tracks to Rangoon.
Also about halfway through the last Kane Chronicles book, and just discovered A Bit of Fry and Laurie (four episodes in). That last is quite good, and pythonesque in its humor.
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Post by Melissia on Jan 20, 2015 21:27:56 GMT -5
Whee I'm miserable!
I hate sinus infections. Damn allergies.
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Post by cheminhaler on Jan 21, 2015 10:52:33 GMT -5
SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVEN'T READ EISENHORN BY DAN ABNETT DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. MOVE ALONG! NOTHING TO SEE HERE! No. The inciting incident of the third book is Magos Bure giving Pontius a body. Eisenhorn suggested something limited. So how about something like a mouse droid from Star Wars with a camera eye strapped to it? You knows, instead of a full android body that he can use to escape? That's the sort of common sense I'd expect from an ancient and respected magos who know how dangerous this guy is.. True but don't forget that Glaw was an arch-heretic and at the end he glosses over the fine details of his escape. But no matter how you cut it the only way that Bure would have done exactly as Glaw asked and been let out of his cage would have been to offer Bure something that he had been missing for years. Using his silky-tongued liar's chutzpah he offered his services to Bure and groomed him into believing that he would ... do something to him, but only on condition of him building a super mechanoid body to house the brain device. Bure just fell for the whole lie hook, line and sinker. TL/DR - Glaw did it in the pantry with a mechanical.... thingy.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Jan 21, 2015 12:40:18 GMT -5
Anything but the mechanical thingy. Sweet Emperor, no!
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