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Re: Why live with a wood burning stove?

I lived with a wood stove heating a good portion of my house for about 13 years. You spread the warmth around with a fan. And it's all peachy.

 

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Re: Why live with a wood burning stove?

The question is, do you feel your way is the correct way and the way others should see it as? That is the impression I am getting.

What is really puzzling you?

I think each system is as different as the area one lives. And if a person found a system that works for them, then kudos to them. Trying to fix that which is not broken is pointless. As it is pointless trying to make someone see the proverbial light.

So I am asking, what are you trying to get across? are we wrong and you are correct?

 

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Re: Please Read This

I don't get what is so complicated here...You ask a question and get a response.

I actaully am beginning to think you are getting more enjoyment with people calling you an idiot. What are you trying to prove!!! Please tell us all. Everyone is having success, success, success, without CO2 controllers. And yes, people are having success with them. CO2 controllers are not new technology at all! IF ANYTHING can solve this rediculous back and forth it is that the CO2 controller is a luxury, not a necessity.

But, I'm sure the dead horse will continue to be beaten, and beaten, and beaten, and beaten.

and beaten and beaten, I think its well on its way to being dogfood and or glue.

He hasn't answered mine yet. Anyway yeah I agree with you. It's a luxury.

I ran a DIY system for months without a drop checker or any sort of indication other than fish and my danio still spawn.

 

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Re: Please Read This

It makes you wonder? If a person doesn't know how to follow posting rules how they can grow plants!

Can you link to some pics of your tank? I'd like to see how this mind works.

posting "rules" are not necessary if you can follow.

But here is my tank for the record. That is if you read any of my posts.

 

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Re: Why live with a wood burning stove?

OK so one way you add co2 to the max limit and shut it off at night letting it reset( Kind of like the ei ). And the other way you use a ph meter and only add co2 as needed ie when the plants are in their photo period there is more co2( Kind of like pps pro ). This is a common debate, even in my local club their are some that are die hard ei and others are pps pro. I think it gets down to personal preference because both are proven to work. It is nice we are a an age in the planted tank community where their are options strategies and low and high dollar methods that work (High dollar not meaning better). Is that not where we are at?

I think it is important to be open minded and willing to try and experement. I think you hit the nail there on the head. I shut my co2 off about an hour before lights out, and turn it on about 15 minutes before lights on. I do this manually at the moment as I have yet to get a timer. Argh... off topic ruminating....that's what I am needing again, power bar.

I think the key here is to advance the hobby with varied experiances, from high tech scientific reasoning to simple observations of aquatic life, leaf colours and pearling. All in all if the results please the owner of the tank, then it is good. Some folk my like strict biotopes, while others, who lack a garden, like myself, may wish to use the Aquarium to get the much needed gardening urge out. I love plants and always have, so I choose a variety of plants I enjoy. Some work, some don't and most simply go bananas.

Since my pressurised system is quite new and I just got off DIY, I am still trying to find the area I feel comfortable with my system. I had to mark the kneedle valve with some red paint to mark the high end of my comfort zone, now I am looking for the middle and low ends. my bubble counter leaked, so I need to get a new one. but so far, so good. Fish and plants communicate well.

 

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Re: Why live with a wood burning stove?

Indignation, I can agree with you 100% on the aquarium being the release of stress. The only time I am stressed with it are when the lives within are at risk. When I was a student in high school I used to go to the green house where I could be at peace with myself. then living in an appartment where it gets poor sun, or too much depending where I am. I was unableto have my greenery. Now I can surround myself with green and peace. Which for me, and my temperment, is imperative for my sanity.

I have enough control over my system using simple methods. I can't afford some things I wish to, so I make do with what I can afford.

I've been told my death trap may be my UGF that I am using, but we shall see.

Ray, I appologise myself, but I tend to get even more stubborn and onnery when I feel someone is trying to thrust their way down my throat implying that I am wrong..or a heathen. peace.

 

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Re: Why live with a wood burning stove?

I would love in floor heating... Actually, I would like a hermostat..... I live in an appartment now and they like cooking us to death. I have to keep my windows open so I don't cook alive.

I'd love to live in a house that had thermal mass.