Ah, finished

[Mugwump]

Water changes...done,....BN fry moved..done,.........Hot mags cleaned...done,......filter media changed...done,....bbs fed to fry, fish fed, BN's get cucumber, everyone else fed......done, .....cleaned underside of glass tops..done, and even did a load of wash..folded and put up.......now for another pot of coffee...... ..it's been a productive day...
( and I know that I multi-tasked a few other things along the way)

[greydragon]

me not done much today cleaned up the babys,then fed them,then topped off my tanks,reset the shrimp hatchery for the morning and then clean the cat box. and have had no caffine in the past 2 weeks (trying to get complety off caffine)

[BallAquatics]

I've been cutting back on the caffeine myself, but here's the deal.  My Bunn coffee maker started leaking about 6 months ago..... it's a planned design flaw and has happened to all my previous Bunn's too.  At any rate, I got it patched up, but knew it wasn't long for this world so I started shopping for a new one.  I ended up with an old style percolator that sits on the stove.  Before my love affair with the Bunn machines, I'd always perked my coffee, as I think it tastes much better.

Well after cutting back from 4 or 5 pots a day to just 1 pot daily, I've drank 6 pots in the last two days using the new percolator.  What a great cup it makes.  Life time guaranteed too! 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NCWQ/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Dennis

[P4Angels]

Completed 15 DIY toppers, cleaned out the fish room talked Lori into 4 more 10 gallon tanks (cory breeding tanks) and moving stuff around.   Still working on that move.  Almost time to start the water changes and cook up some more brine....  So many fish so little time 

[PaulineMi]

I've been cutting back on the caffeine myself, but here's the deal.  My Bunn coffee maker started leaking about 6 months ago..... it's a planned design flaw and has happened to all my previous Bunn's too.  At any rate, I got it patched up, but knew it wasn't long for this world so I started shopping for a new one.  I ended up with an old style percolator that sits on the stove.  Before my love affair with the Bunn machines, I'd always perked my coffee, as I think it tastes much better.

Well after cutting back from 4 or 5 pots a day to just 1 pot daily, I've drank 6 pots in the last two days using the new percolator.  What a great cup it makes.  Life time guaranteed too! 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NCWQ/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Dennis

Sadly the quality of the Bunn coffeemaker has gone downhill.  We have experienced problems with two after having one for a long time. Our last leaker was sent back, they replaced it with one that stayed on even when we turned it off.  They replaced that one with one that had a crooked top on the carafe. It spilled water all over the place when filling the reservoir.  We finally got one that's okay.  We put it in storage as a back up and are using a $17 Mr. Coffee coffeemaker.

[BallAquatics]

A major factor in the purchase decision for the new coffee pot was that I can make coffee even when we have NO electrical power.  It seems as though we loose power more and more these days.

Dennis

[Mugwump]

We've been using the 'Mr Coffee' type for years....they all seem to start the same crap after about 2 yrs...the little hoses under the inside start to expand/come loose/burst....I bought a section of clear tube an replace them....then it lasts another 2 yrs.....repeat.....LOL...but it makes great coffee....and Dennis, I have our old metal camping pot as a spare...still makes great coffee too...LOL

[P4Angels2]

LoL it wasn't really talking me into it...I have to admit after seeing a video about getting cory's to lay eggs we think that our fish room is just to warm....there are no heaters in the tanks and they are running a little over 80 and so...we decided that the cory habrosus and pygmy's are just to warm as well as the shrimp...so we came up with moving them into yes another room....but the average temp of the tank with no heater is 73 which seems to be what the cory's need to have...as well as the shrimp!!

[BallAquatics]

I learned the hard way how temperature sensitive Caridina shrimp can be.  I started a colony of CRS shrimp one fall and they thrived and reproduced like mad over the winter.  About July we had some very hot weather and before I could figure out what was happening, I lost them all.  I later read an article about collecting shrimp by Chris Lukhaup, and in most areas where they were finding wild shrimp, the water temperature was in the 60's.

Dennis

[P4Angels2]

I think that is what happened to the red cherry shrimp I had....the others are producing like the red rili shrimp and my blueberry shrimp but nothing else is...so habitat and all are going to be moving to a new location...and should it get hot here in WA I can set a fan on the counter to oscillation and hopefully keep them cool

[Frank The Plumber]

If I so much as have two cups of coffee my brains hum. most likely melting or something.