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macon77
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Sunday afternoon updates:
Experiment 1: Still no word on the replacement mushroom. I tried to get my friend to contact the new caretaker of the mushroom colony of interest again. He had no luck in contacting him/her. I will give this another week, and will employ a different type of Rhodactis if there aren't further developments.
Experiment 3 (Yes, I know I skipped #2): The 1st acquired critter is doing fine.
Experiment 2: I am a knucklehead. Period.
In setting up the PM this time around, I had to make some new considerations. Having to run it outside of the system (externally), I decided to put the end of the drain line under water to reduce noise pollution (the Bullet-1 is actually suited to run externally, or submerged in a max of 6" of water). So, off the skimmer went for a few days, and I collected and have stored the yucky stuff which had accumulated. However, I noted that the skimmer seemed to be running oddly. Given my inexperience in running the skimmer externally, I thought my observation of its strange behavior involved an artifact of back-pressure. So, I decided to let the skimmer run another week with the end of the drain line NOT being submerged. I was curious to see that the "properties" of the skimming did not change when I altered the drain line.
Of course, the odd behavior I had observed had to do with a clogged airline, rather than back-pressure. AUGH!!! Hence, my new name for myself (i.e., knucklehead).
Further delays. Further delays. Further delays.
Oh well, all we have is time.
Experiment 1: Still no word on the replacement mushroom. I tried to get my friend to contact the new caretaker of the mushroom colony of interest again. He had no luck in contacting him/her. I will give this another week, and will employ a different type of Rhodactis if there aren't further developments.
Experiment 3 (Yes, I know I skipped #2): The 1st acquired critter is doing fine.
Experiment 2: I am a knucklehead. Period.
In setting up the PM this time around, I had to make some new considerations. Having to run it outside of the system (externally), I decided to put the end of the drain line under water to reduce noise pollution (the Bullet-1 is actually suited to run externally, or submerged in a max of 6" of water). So, off the skimmer went for a few days, and I collected and have stored the yucky stuff which had accumulated. However, I noted that the skimmer seemed to be running oddly. Given my inexperience in running the skimmer externally, I thought my observation of its strange behavior involved an artifact of back-pressure. So, I decided to let the skimmer run another week with the end of the drain line NOT being submerged. I was curious to see that the "properties" of the skimming did not change when I altered the drain line.
Of course, the odd behavior I had observed had to do with a clogged airline, rather than back-pressure. AUGH!!! Hence, my new name for myself (i.e., knucklehead).
Further delays. Further delays. Further delays.
Oh well, all we have is time.
