New stainless steel uv filters and pressurized sand filters

Today at work I received 5 pallets (one 10 feet long) of new filters. There are 4x 1000 watt stainless steel ultra violet sterilizers and 8x 36 diameter triton pressurized sand filters. These are funded by the stimulus funding congress passed a couple years ago.

Tiger Shovelnose Catfish

Wow! I'd keep these koi.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Golden medaka

Japanese Black Pine

Front Side

Back Side

Pinus thunbergii "Banshosho"

Pinus thunbergii "Banshosho"

Pinus thunbergii "kotobuki"

Plumatella bryozoan

http://university.uog.edu/botany/474/fw/plumatella.htm

On Multiple Tank Syndrome and its remedy

"If you stop counting your tanks the multiple tank syndrome will clear up in no time!
When you don't know how many tanks you have the look on peoples face is same whether you have 12 or 12 dozen."
-Me

Freak Snow Storm Damages Hatchery Tank Filtration

On March 23 we got our first and last snow of the year. http://www.kval.com/news/local/A-truly-historic-spring-snowstorm-for-Eugene--143698986.html
No one was really expecting the snow but 7.5 inches fell at the airport and closer to 10 here in the hills. A Douglas Fir limb landed on the hatchery tank system's zapp pure uv breaking the clear union threads that attach and draining the system. This caused two tanks to completely drain. It was last years Bristol Shubunkin (Parker strain) and the late summer Matuyama x Itoh that had been raised and over wintered out side. They were high and dry for possible a day. Good thing they were cold as most revived but are now succumbing to their injuries. The Ranchu were moved inside with the bristols soon to follow.

Fortunately the system was out together with ferncos. A few twists of a nut driver and a scrap price of two ich pipe the zapp pure was bypassed.

500 Gallon Pond Delivery

It was a wet stormy spring trip but the sun came out for loading and unloading. The wind blew us around a bit but it was strapped down solidly and the tank never flexed due to the great construction. Internal dimensions are 72x64x24 slopped to 28 at the center for a 520 gallon full volume am about 30 square feet of floor space.