CRS Tank Adventure! ->BEWARE-> (Updated 5.21.08)

[bsmith782]

Can we get some pics of the colony??

Im getting excited about my shrip again. I have 6 new one's on the way (CRS), and found a berried one in the tank!!!

It really amazes me how old the CRS have to be to reproduce compared to RCS.

[A Hill]

I'll try to get some of the decent shots uploaded tonight.

I think my photography is getting better, but I'll let you guys decide...

-Andrew

[A Hill]

Well you know how I kept saying a bit later a bit later a bit later?

I am starting to upload all 268 pictures.

I figure I'll post ten or so a day






















Photobucket has a new option to make it easy for me as well.. Some pictures are better than others. The later pictures (not of this group, are much better, but to keep my photography honest)

-Andrew

Here is the link to the new account if you wish to view them faster than I post them.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...fBDtank016.jpg

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Is there a reason the water level is down?

Nice tank! So many Vals....

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by ZooTycoonMaster

Is there a reason the water level is down?

Nice tank! So many Vals....

Not really, I just always forget to do it, get busy when I go to do it...

It really isn't important.

Thanks, and yeah there are a lot, they all are from two or three originals! They're all clones

-Andrew

[A Hill]

Well there are more new tiny babies popping up every day

This week I hope to get the rest of the pictures uploaded, they're on the other computer or I would be uploading them now..

-Andrew

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Is this tank even still alive?

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by ZooTycoonMaster

Is this tank even still alive?

That it is, Thursday night I cleaned out the canister and figured out that you can take this discreet plastic piece off the top to get to the impeller and clean that. Now it works like new... Stupid Andrew

Over the summer I had a population decrease that is starting to rebound, I have around 20 or so at the moment, and a few were just berried and there are a number of little ones running crazily around the tank.

I want to get them into another tank which is bigger but its tough to get more tank space these days...

Those other pictures I talk about above where lost with a virus, I'm still mad about that...

Over the summer It was full of stems, now it is just moss, java ferns trident and narrow, and the most common brown/red crypt (willisi bronze or however it is spelled.) Not sure what direction I'm going to go with this tank, I'm debating taking out the crypts (they're now as large as the vallis was) and replacing it all with the susswassestang I've got which has grown a ton in such low light.

I've got some pictures I'll have to get uploaded, some of the tank, some of other stuff...

-Andrew

[ZID ZULANDER]

So you got your Rapids pro mini to work again?

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by ZID ZULANDER

So you got your Rapids pro mini to work again?

Yes it is working like a champ now.

What you have to do is pull the top off as normal when cleaning the canister. Then flip the top part upside down. Where the inlet strainer thing is for the return flow pull out as normal. You can also pull out the plastic piece it goes into. It took me over a year to figure this out..

Once you get that piece out you can remove the impeller and also clear the spot where the water travels to get back to the hoses.

Maybe I'm the only idiot who never figured this out but maybe not...

Its silent and perfect like it used to be.

-Andrew

[ZID ZULANDER]

I was just checking to make sure that it was working right. If not than I was going to see about getting you a replacement unit.

Originally Posted by A Hill

Yes it is working like a champ now.

What you have to do is pull the top off as normal when cleaning the canister. Then flip the top part upside down. Where the inlet strainer thing is for the return flow pull out as normal. You can also pull out the plastic piece it goes into. It took me over a year to figure this out..

Once you get that piece out you can remove the impeller and also clear the spot where the water travels to get back to the hoses.

Maybe I'm the only idiot who never figured this out but maybe not...

Its silent and perfect like it used to be.

-Andrew

[fishboy87]

pictures? I'm gonna start a crs colony and want to see an established one

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by ZID ZULANDER

I was just checking to make sure that it was working right. If not than I was going to see about getting you a replacement unit.

Yes it is working correctly now, it was my error more or less. To give you an idea of how long it takes for it to get to where it was last weekend. I hadn't actually cleaned the inside impeller part in over a year. It was caked with dirt more or less and it could not move.

Do you work for the company or have some connections or some such?

Originally Posted by fishboy87

pictures? I'm gonna start a crs colony and want to see an established one

There are lots of pictures above... Yet I'll have some more uploaded over the weekend probably, since I get really busy in school and never end up uploading them...

Thanks,
-Andrew

[ZID ZULANDER]

I do... We represent the company on the west coast.

Originally Posted by A Hill

Yes it is working correctly now, it was my error more or less. To give you an idea of how long it takes for it to get to where it was last weekend. I hadn't actually cleaned the inside impeller part in over a year. It was caked with dirt more or less and it could not move.

Do you work for the company or have some connections or some such?



There are lots of pictures above... Yet I'll have some more uploaded over the weekend probably, since I get really busy in school and never end up uploading them...

Thanks,
-Andrew

[A Hill]

Cool cool. If you ever need items tested lol

I know some others had posted of motor failings and whatnot and bought second ones...

do you know of any reason that the weird tube is used?

-Andrew