Sea creatures as in food, aquarium additions, or Karkens?
This sounds very much like what my partner keeps seeing on FedEx deliveries for the past couple years. They simply won't deliver down the private road we live on, unless the right person is gotten on the phone and/or complaints lodged outside FedEx are noticed. Notably, UPS and Amazon have no trouble here (despite our crazy neighbor sometimes confronting the drivers), it's only FedEx... They used to deliver stuff to the wrong address (which is bad, when it's live sea creatures).
New tenants for the reef aquarium, Sirius. Corals, fish, shrimp, snails, crabs, etc.
How big an aquarium?
New tenants for the reef aquarium, Sirius. Corals, fish, shrimp, snails, crabs, etc.
Got an 80 gallon with 30 gallon sump (where the pump and skimmer live, along with some critters exiled from the main tank for undesirable behavior) and a separate 40 gallon with plants, plus some more corals, shrimp, and a couple fish (plus a breeding population of copepods and amphipods, food for some of the fish). This requires several gallons of make-up water volume per day, free from chlorine and iron (partner installed a small reverse osmosis deionizing filter system for this), plus frequent water changes, and other supplies (food, etc.). Total of six long 2-tube T3 fluorescent light fixtures (54W per tube), plus their ballasts and some expensive LED lights (color and brightness controlled) -- corals need UV as if from sunlight.
I've seen successful-seeming tanks with one or two corals and one or two fish as small as a couple gallons, but the smaller the tank, the closer it has to be watched. Ten gallons can change conditions a lot faster than 110.
I don't see getting into one like partner's without spending about $5k, maybe more, in equipment, supplies, and denizens. And you can expect a crash that kills 80% or more of the contents at random intervals roughly every 3-4 years (some never have one, some go years in a seemingly perpetual state of crisis). Then there are equipment failures -- a skimmer for that size tank runs around $300, and if it quits, everything will die in a week, give or take. Glass tanks can shatter, seemingly without warning, and acrylic or polycarbonate can develop leaks at the chemical welded seams. Plumbing can develop leaks, too.
And the staff member who handles that may only be at that location every second Tuesday .....
In addition to the work required one has to be around to do the work. A four to six week vacation becomes a big deal arranging for a suitable person to come in and do the needed work. My local tap water after removing the chlorine still has other added chemicals which cannot be easily removed or reduced to a save level, although I could drive to the Pacific Ocean and draw water to use as a starter.
How big an aquarium? Years ago I thought about having a saltwater aquarium but I realized that to be practical, one needed to be large and that takes a lot of work and care, not like guppies or gold fish.
Apparently, they weren't taking too good of care of this one. Apparently the hotel will have fish on their menu for a while as 1500 were in the 82-foot-high tank and they all died.
BERLIN (AP) — A huge aquarium in Berlin burst, spilling debris, water and hundreds of tropical fish out of the AquaDom tourist attraction in the heart of the German capital early Friday.
Police said parts of the building, which also contains a hotel, cafes and a chocolate store, were damaged as 1 million liters (264,000 gallons) of water poured from the aquarium shortly before 6 a.m. (0500 GMT). Berlin's fire service said two people were slightly injured.
Huge Berlin aquarium bursts, unleashing flood of devastation
A huge aquarium in Berlin burst, spilling debris, water and hundreds of tropical fish out of the AquaDom tourist attraction in the heart of the German capital early Friday. Police said parts of the building, which also contains a hotel, cafes and a chocolate store, were damaged as 1 million...news.yahoo.com
Guys......I'm close to hitting the ignore button on my own thread.
There is only so much you can say about selecting your first 4x5 lens, yet, having exhausted the subject.........
I did have a different update on the tracking of the lens............."Shipment has arrived at the third party delivery facility. Shipment delivery will be attempted in the next scheduled cyle." So that sounds like it cleared customs to me.
Nothing quite like the dopamine rush of camera equipment coming in the mail.
I'd show a pic but photrio keeps telling me that a 117kb file is too large.
Resize/convert your photo to a jpeg that is 1000 pixels on the long side.
And remind us again what lens it is!
135mm. You'll eventually want something longer.
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