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With this going fairly well I've enabled the auto delete. These are the conditions that must be met in order for the account to be automatically deleted: Must already be in the inactive members group 0 posts No activity (<- note activity not post) in at least 365 days So essentially, if you signed up, never posted and didn't return to the site to post, lurk or whatever in 365 days your account will auto delete. It's kind of like, signing up at the local library, reserving a book and then walking out never to return.

Rack with 3 levels. * Rack would be an industrial quality, able to carry 2x the weight of the filled tanks. * 4x 2x2x2 tanks on 2 of the levels. Total of 8 Tanks. * Large Sump with K3, Matrix, some lava rock and different grades of sponge. * All plumbed together * A large air pump which supplies all tanks with filters. * Water would be UV sterilised. I don't know much about shrimp substrate. * A good shrimp soil and shrimp rock type stuff in there. * Plenty of moss *Sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset lighting set to imitate natural patterns. *Heating and cooling would be via normal heating and chilling. The room would be climate controlled. * I would have an aquarium controller hooked into the heating/cooling so that if a thermostat got stuck the controller would take over and alert me to it. * For any alarms, power fail, pump fail etc. I would be alerted via phone, text or email. * If a pump failed it would trigger another to come on until I change out the broken one. * The system would have an automatic start generator in the event of a power outage. * All of my water changes would be automated and every 2nd day it would top the rack up with fresh 0ppm water and then every other day it would to a small water change. * I would have a large heated/cooled water storage tank behind the rack for 0ppm water. I would have an in-line dosing pump which would mix the proper amount of minerals for a water change and not mix any at all for a top off. Ph would also be in-line controlled. * I would have another 1000 Lt water tank to serve as additional water capacity for the rack plumbed in. I would have 6 of these setups. One for natives, one for cherries, one for bee's, a tibee one, another for cardinal's and one for spare. I wouldn't want to be too greedy. The room would have a lounge, a fridge (stocked with beer), sink and shelving for storage. It would have a water cooler with the water changed out for bourbon. An ice machine next to it. A good coffee machine as well. I would have a computer nearby on a desk. A canon 5D MkIII with stupid expensive lens' and studio lighting for photos. I would have a camera setup at the back of each tank rigged up to a security type deal and a 90" screen TV. The screen would be split into 6 screens (one for each rack) which would each cycle between the tanks in their rack. For days when I am lazy I can sit back on the lounge and sip bourbon whilst watching the screen. The cameras would be infrared as well so when I can't sleep because I am thinking of shrimp too much I can come back into the room and watch them in the dark. I would also be able to remotely access the security cameras so when I can't work because I am thinking of shrimp too much, I can log in and check them out at work. Also I would be able to access the aquarium controller and monitor everything too. A disco ball in the room because a setup like this deserves a celebration. Or maybe not. That should just about cover it. I am off to go purchase a lotto ticket.

Hi all, Just wanted to share a pick of my first attempt at an Iwagumi aquascape. Now to get the plants.

SKF has done well because it's a community of like minded people that go out of their way to support each other with all things tank related. Members contribute through asking questions, answering questions or just by sharing knowledge and photos. We also have members that have signed up and not contributed in anyway. To encourage member contribution, I have implemented an inactive member process in the backend and have just finalised the final tweaks. The following is the PM/Email that will be sent if any member has not posted in a 90-day period. It has to be a post in a forum for the counter to reset, simply logging in and out will not be enough. Hopefully, this will stimulate an increase in member interaction with those sitting back and watching. Failing that, at least the member groups will be kept clean with only active members present. Down the track, inactive members will be automatically deleted. You've probably gathered with the user count drop from 3,000 to just under 1,000 that I'm not about the member count. I want people here that want to be here and contributing in their own way. I purged 2,000 accounts as they've been sitting idle with 0 post count for some time. An unfortunate effect of a comp that was run a little while back. This only applies to regular members, sponsors and SKF subscribers are excluded from this process.

I had a week in Jamberoo house sitting with a friend. We did some shrimping and mossing. We both managed to catch a riffle shrimp - I was so excited because I hadn't expected to have any success. Mostly caught glass shrimp (Paratya) in this stream Also we caught this fish - any ID for it? ( sorry it is blurry, my friend didn't know how to use my camera.) I also saw a lot of these pointy tube things attached to rocks in clusters. They are about 1.5 cm long. They move! Would like to know what they are?

Easy , un flood the tank. Move the rocks around and plant , then flood. :-)

Good thing moneys no object fish beast LOLreally cool plan though

Hi Petfish, I actually do have 5 stones that one in the middle looks like one big stone but it is actually two haha. The Subtrate is ADA amazonia. I have two Pro LED Light Z's. I just picked up a CO2 unit from aquotix today. I have planted HC and dwarf hair grass. And a bunch of cuttings off my brother which I have no Idea what the names are. Its not quite finished I need to find a bit more hc before I have the foreground covered as much as I would like. I also want to tie some moss to the rocks. I will put a couple more pic once I get the rest of the plants in.

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Nice work Team Tech Den!

Proof that Rcs and Tbs love zucchini.

Welcome back Ineke, glad you made it home in one piece after your other little adventures and run in's. The shrimp will bring you back to reality, sure hope you find some really interesting babies when they grow a bit more and start to show their true colour patterns. Anyway good to know you and Alan made it home safe and well.

Very exciting to have many more shrimps to work with. Bummer about the paling though..

So this is that habitat in which they came from!

Hello shrimpkeepers, after the recent drop of bubs pictured above I can share some breaking news. I quickly checked the tank this morning to find Miss Angry Bee berried . Hahaha this time it was an arranged marriage. How does F1 pinto x CRS dad sound for a bit of fun? Countdown begins today.

Ok here goes. I would have a room built four foot off the ground with a grated floor and a roof full of solar panels and evaporative heat tubes. One wall would have shelving and a fridge for storage. One wall would have a 12x3x3, divided in half. One half would be full reef tank the other half a predator tank with some snowflake eels and port Jackson sharks running an 8x3x2 sump with protein skimmers, uv, phosphate and nitrate reactors and filter socks. Lighting for this would be a row of radions with the sunrise sunset moon light program. One wall would be a row of lounges for viewing and probably sleeping as i would never want to leave this room lol. Now for the racks. Two 16ft Stands in each row. First row would be 4 tier 8x2x1tanks for fish growout. Second and third row two teir 8x2x2 tanks for adult geos with one tank divided in half for two smaller species, room for ten species. These three rows would be bare bottom tanks. Next three rows would be three teir 4x18x15 divided into four. First is Tb variants and projects, benibachi substrate, and planted Second is cherry variants and projects with river sand substrate and planted. Third is tiger variants and pinto projects, river sand substrate and planted. All shrimp tanks would have a layer of mineral powder under the substrate and mineral rocks/balls on top. All tanks would have large and small sponge filters depending on the tank, bulkheads and isolation taps for quarantine. Bulkheads would be a mix of large hole and stainless strainers depending on the tank and shrimp tank bulkheads would have sponges on them. Plants would include crypts, banana lily, watersprite, moss variants,buce species and anything I can find that I like. All lighting would be leds attached to the racks, with a mix of red, green, blue and white lights with controllers on each tank. The water would flow out of the tanks, through the floor and outside into ibc holding tanks with a layer of dacron on top of egg grate for mechanical filtration then flow into aquaponic grow beds for veges and herbs running a bell siphon setup. The plants and clay balls would provide all the biological filtration needed. The water would then be pumped up through the evaporative heat tubes and into an ibc holding tank for each row. These ibcs would be off the ground on stands that make the bottom of the ibc slightly higher than the top row of tanks The ibcs would have laboratory quality sensors, dosing pumps containing all the the minerals and ph balancers, and auto top up setup to make the water perfect for each row. Top up would be via three 10 000 litre rain water tanks. The water would flow from the holding ibcs through temp controllers and back into the tanks. On one wall of the room (outside) would be a small BBQ with some large pots for brewing Blackwater and creating foods. I may have missed some things but I think this gives an idea of the scale. I just need to win the lotto lol. Do I get extra points for my birthday this weekend? Hahahaha, only kidding. I hope to see a few more and good luck to all that enter. Cheers mick

Hey Ineke, if you'r anything like me, each time you walk past your tanks you will be trying to count them (almost impossible) but still try HA,HA,HA. :lol: