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The Tech Prep Program is offered in cooperation between the UAF Community and Technical College and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District. The program recognizes the high quality of courses that are offered in the high school and provides students the opportunity to receive university credit for specific high school classes at a reduced cost.
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- Students may register for a Tech Prep course during the current school year. Deadline for registration and payment will be the 2nd Monday in May.
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Returning the Aldi Tablet
I have decided to return the 7″ Android tablet I bought from Aldi last week [1]. I still think that the tablet isn't all bad, but the main problem I had is the short battery life. The battery can be entirely exhausted in less than an hour's use. Another problem is the fact that most of the Angry Birds games just abort on startup, as my plans for the tablet involved some recreational use this is a significant problem.
The final factor that made me decide to return it is the fact that Kogan offered a special deal on a Samsung Galaxy S3 [2] for $449. That ended up as $507 per phone for two phones that have PowerCases (which more than double the battery life as well as protecting the phone from being dropped). So a Galaxy S3 increments my Android device count and with a 4.8″ 720*1280 display will compete well with a low-end 7″ tablet that only has a 800*480 display (the Galaxy S3 has 2.4* as many pixels).
Aldi offers 60 days money back, so I'll return the tablet when my Galaxy S3 arrives.
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been a boykin guy for a while and still love them and have a couple but got an opportunity at this black female so went to the dark side.
she's 12 weeks old and were just building up the "GO" in her till its time for FF. she loves the water and loves to retrieve. should be fun.
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Expressing religious beliefs through art has been evident throughout mankind from Paleolithic cave art to architectural masterpieces of cathedrals, mosques, & temples around the world. Through an assemblage of photographs, paintings, & mixed media works, artists express their personal relationships to their faiths. Syed Ahmad creates contemplative works in glass inspired by ancient Islamic calligraphy. Quilted paintings of personal faith define Alice Levinson's art, using biblical text & Hebrew poetry. Robert Radin features poignant photographs showcasing cultures around the world, cast in faith. Photographer Shireen Alborno tears down the stereotype attached to her religion & lifestyle as a Muslim. G. Carol Bomer juxtaposes text & image to create connections that are not predictable. Spirituality is an important part of the creative journey of Robert Crum. Professed to the Order of Secular Franciscans, spirituality is evident in Betti Pettinati-Longinotti's inspired work.
Vibha Galhotra: Metropia (Exhibit)
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: SECCA
Galhotra's works serve as a critique of urbanization and an examination of her own place in the world.
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Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Southside Baptist Church, 401 E. Sprague St., Winston-Salem
Southside Baptist Church will perform its 56th annual "Live Nativity" from 7-9pm on December 20-23. The outdoor drama features members of local churches in costume, complete with animals and scenery, in a live tableau. The drama takes place outside the church at 401 E. Sprague Street and is free to the public. For more information, call 336-723-0395


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Hello all,
Last christmas my girlfriend bought me a small fish tank as my first tank. After reading up i decided to upgrade to a 100L/26g tank which i now happily have some neon tetras, three lined corys, and RCS in.
I am wondering if i can use the small 1.5g tank for anything that will not cramp it? is it too small to house any aquatic animal and keep it comfortable?
My LFS has a yellow strain of RCS and i thought about that? any other suggestions?
it will have small gravel in it, a couple small artificial plants with some java moss too. It has a small internal filter that came with it and a heater tuned to 26C/79F. pH is 7.4.
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As far as I know, that tank would be fine for RCS - however, not too many cuz I understand they are prolific breeders - good for you that you realize it's not appropriate for fish of any kind!
Some forum members use those small tanks for shrimp or snails. I would make sure to put it through the cycling process 1st before putting anything into it.
... Personally, I would throw quarters in it until I had saved enough to buy a more practical tank size.
I have a 1G fishbowl... I keep pens in it because I already have a change jar.
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Dear Hasbro guys,
There is one thing you are doing to the AOTC line that I think is a great improvment. IF this was spread to all concerning figures I believe it would inhance said figures. The improvement I am reffering to is:
Real Metal Lightsabers.
I think this really puts something "extra" on all the Jedi's. No longer are we subjected to plastic hilts with bad paint jobs. The new lightsabers for Obi-Wan, Kit Fisto, and Luminara look great. Each one is different and very well sculpted. The figures do not need to have the magnets in their hands for the Lightsaber hilts to be added.
It seems to me that you are always striving for better realism in your figures. Well, this would be a marketable(sp) improvement. And it can't cost that much to have these with each Jedi. So, please take this into concideration when you release your next batch of Jedi's.
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Is salmon farming part of our future?
Here's something that was e-mailed to me from a friend. It's interesting that there is a movement afoot to remove salmon farms, and part of the argument is related to the quality of fish.
I'm wondering if it's not time to come out in favor of salmon farming-- but get the necessary restrictions in place to reduce or eliminate effluent from the pens and reduce or eliminate strays from the pens. Just think of what might happen to the commercial fishery if healthy salmon (and other fish) were pen-raised and inexpensive.
It's something to think about, anyway.
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HEADLINE: Wild Alaska salmon isn't as pure as advertised
SOURCE: Vancouver Sun
BYLINE: Don Whiteley
Commercial greed and gross mismanagement by government agencies have
combined to destroy or diminish wild fish stocks all over the globe,
including the West Coast salmon fishery.
With that in mind, one can only marvel at the success of the environment
movement, and others, for convincing people that it is more ecologically
responsible to kill and eat a wild Chinook salmon than a farmed Atlantic
salmon raised in a pen.
Carried to its logical, and absurd, conclusion, we should also demand an end
to all chicken farms and cattle ranches so we can go back to eating deer,
moose and wild pheasant -- all in the name of ecology, of course.
The latest knock against B.C.'s beleaguered salmon farmers came last week in
the annual marketing push for Alaska's fabled Copper River salmon. Alaska
Airlines signed a partnership agreement with Alaska's Nor-Quest Seafoods and
New England's Legal Seafoods to provide, initially, two to three tons of
fresh salmon a week. Legal has 30 family restaurants on the Eastern
seaboard, fish markets, a catering business, and sells fish on the Internet.
Tied to this is a big marketing splash with promotional blitzes in
Washington, Boston, New York -- the whole nine yards. In an interview with
the Alaska Journal of Commerce, Roger Berkowitz, president of Nor-Quest,
said this:
"We are going to try and wean people off the farmed and onto the wild. I am
a firm believer in wild product. Alaska wild salmon is the purest, most
healthy and most environmentally sustainable -- in short, the best there
Well, not quite. The purity of the wild Alaska salmon is based more on myth
than reality, as it is subject to the same environmental pressures, and
water-borne contaminants, as other wild salmon stocks up and down the West
And while Alaskans look down their noses at salmon farming (it's not
allowed), they encourage salmon ranching -- a variation on salmon farming
that sees fish raised in pens until they are big enough to fend for
themselves, and then let go into the wild.
The creme de la creme of Alaskan wild salmon is the Copper River run, and
every year its arrival on the market in May is greeted with the same
enthusiasm and hoopla applied to the arrival of Beaujolais wine from France.
But guess what -- it's laced with PCBs. I feel safe in using the word
"laced" because the same word was used over and over again in the media to
describe the 32 parts per billion of PCBs detected in B.C. farmed salmon in
a study released last January. But an independent study conducted in 1998 on
behalf of the Circumpolar Conservation Union showed Copper River salmon with
PCB levels exceeding 60 parts per billion -- nearly twice as "laced" as the
farmed salmon rate. Has it improved since 1998? Maybe. But maybe it got
That's not the only wild salmon run discovered to have higher levels of PCBs
than farmed salmon. Similar results came out of a study of Puget Sound
salmon, where wild Chinook salmon were found to have PCB levels equal to,
and sometimes higher than, farmed salmon.
All these salmon tested at PCB levels well below the 2,000 parts per billion
considered the maximum allowable before the fish is considered a health
problem -- but I wonder if these stats are spelled out in Alaska's marketing
blitz? And if PCBs are a good reason not to eat farmed salmon, then they are
twice as good a reason not to eat Copper River salmon.
Salmon farming vs. salmon ranching is another interesting issue that likely
doesn't make its way into the "wild is good, farmed is bad" marketing
campaign. In order to help maintain its commercial fishery, and enhance wild
fish stocks, Alaska decided to forego the salmon farming route and do salmon
ranching instead.
Salmon ranching is a lot like salmon farming. Fish are raised in ocean-based
pens, fed a steady diet of processed food (purchased in B.C., interestingly
enough, and consumed at nearly six times the rate used in B.C. fish-farm
operations), fed some dyes important to their health and colour, also
antibiotics. When they're big enough, they let them go.
Alaska releases more than 1.5 million "ranched" fish into the waters every
year, and they happily swim away, competing for food with their natural-born
cousins, and eventually get caught (along with the wild fish) in the
commercial fishery. About 25 per cent of the catch comes from hatchery fish.
This program, along with other aspects of Alaska's fisheries management, has
been certified as okay by the international Marine Stewardship Council.
But the Alaska chapter of U.S. conservation organization Trout Unlimited in
2002 released a cutting critique of the MSC's glowing endorsement, saying
"an evaluation that finds no significant weaknesses in organizational
structure and performance invites a skeptical, even cynical, reception."
And about Alaskan salmon ranching, Trout Unlimited had some scathing remarks
on the practice's impact on diversity in wild fish stocks, particularly the
opportunity for genetic dilution as hatchery fish head for the spawning
"The fact that the [Alaska] Department of Fish and Game not only insists
that concerns about the impact of hatchery fish on wild populations are
paranoiac, but also has authorized increased hatchery production and is
financially subsidizing that production, belies the certification of
management for sustainability.
"From the perspective of conservation of wild salmon biodiversity, there is
no biological justification for releasing 1.6 billion hatchery juveniles
annually into Alaska waters."
In the debate between farmed and wild fish, none of this is considered when
a restaurateur has to decide which fish to put on his menu. The customer
asks one question: "Is it wild or is it farmed?" and makes a decision based
on emotion rather than fact. B.C. salmon farmers are losing market share as
a result of this.
All's fair in love and marketing. But the facts don't give Alaska an
advantage in this argument, and Alaska's holier-than-thou attitude to the
issue is quite annoying.
And to all those New Englanders happily chowing down on Alaska "wild" Copper
River salmon -- enjoy your PCBs.
Interesting. But wild salmon do not create PCB's, only man can do that. PCB's are 100% synthetic and all traces are a result of the short time in earth's history that we used them in industrial applications from transformers to lubricants.
So it's only right that we eat them; because only man is buried in leak-proof containers and that's the ONLY way to clean up the damn mess we made with them!
In fact I suggest we MUST eat all contaminated organisms and be buried in better leak-proof containers until such time that the seemingly unrecoverable damage we created with them is reduced to the point that wild salmon register a lower trace level than mass-produced clones.
TIC, sort of. ;)
My problem with salmon farming is the disease
and sea lice explosion from keeping so many fish
in small confinement. That is not good for wild
fish. Not to mention the amount of non native
escapee's trying to spawn in B.C. and Puget Sound
One fact Mr. Whiteley conveniently overlooks in his elegent monologue is the effect of the fish farms enviromental impact on wild fish populations. Last year the incidence of sea lice on anadromous fish was way up. That is the number of actual parasites per fish.
I guess the fact that the polution and effluent from the farms provides a rich enviroment for these parasites to increase was of very little concern to him.
Perhaps in his next amazing expose he can tackle the subject of steelhead survival of the ocean phase of their lifecycle.
1.5 miilion ranched salmon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just to put that number in a proper perspective, consider that the guideline harvest for the State of Alaska this season is roughly 97 million salmon. Thats harvest and as anyone can tell you whos been there they are not shy about "over escapement".
My main concern as always with Farmed finfish be it Salmon Cod or others is simple. Where is the feed going to come from???
The world according to Keith
This may be an unpopular view, but for the most part, I'm for salmon farming, and I think that sports fishermen should be for it as well.
Here's why: Cheap, farmed salmon will cause commercial fishing to take a nose-dive. There will be fewer commercials on the water, and that leaves more fish for sports fishermen. I've already seen a lot of press where commercials are whingeing (love that British word) about low prices for their catch because of farmed salmon. While I don't want folks to lose their source of income, in the Northwest, taxpayers support a small minority who take the large majority of fish.
HOWEVER: I think there are some great gains that have to be made before we (or at least I) can sign off on pens. The effluent from the pens-- fish feces, uneaten food, and associated meds can't be flushed out to sea. Granted Victoria does that with its sewage, but that is done a long way offshore and not in a bay.
Another problem I have is with escapees. While I would be happy with more fish to catch regardless of the species, I don't want them breeding in our streams. Maybe sterilization of all farmed fish would be an answer.
The sea lice problem certainly should be addressed, but perhaps controlling the effluent would be enough.
Finally, the biggest problem I see is the forage that is necessary to feed the buggers to start with. I've read somewhere-- don't have a clue where-- that most of the food processed for farmed salmon is made from forage fish, apparently the same forage wild fish feed upon. To me, that has the seeds for catastrophe. An alternative food source must be found that would not require taking tons upon tons of herring, anchovies and sardines from the feeding grounds of native fish.
Are there other concerns I've missed?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking for argument, but I am curious to hear other viewpoints. To me, it seems if the objections can be addressed then this could be a slam dunk for sports fishermen. If it isn't, I'd like to know why.
Juro--On the PCB thing, Whitely was pointing out, rightly I think, that if the PCB content of farmed salmon is a negative point, then (nearly) twice that level makes wild salmon less healthy to eat. Yet a lot of the marketing spin on Alaskan salmon is that it's healthy as compared to farmed fish. There may be other considerations about health issues with eating farmed fish, but using PCB contamination as a scare tactic is way off base-- assuming 32 ppb is acceptable and Whiteley's reporting are accurate. Makes you wonder about some of the other claims, doesn't it? The scary thing to me is the widespread appearance of PCB contamination-- how can it get into salmon in Alaska?
My $.02,
Being in the water pollution field and working with salmon farms all I can say is that the article is misinformation.
First off there are ways to stop the problems of effluent discharge and the sea lice problem by having the farms go inland and not in open ocean pens or open estuary pens. But to do so will take complex wastewater treatment plants just like we treat human waste. They cost many millions of dollars to design, build and operate. If the industry did this then the price of farmed raised anything would be higher than wild fish on the open market. The aqua culture industry does have an inferior product due to such items as food coloring, massive anti biotics which are fed way over the limits that we are allowed to feed cattle in feed yards. Also to rid these fish of sea lice thomaldihide baths are in order for every fish processed.
The claim that there would be less commercial fishing is not a true fact. Yes there would be less commercial salmon fishermen maybe but there are now more commercial fishermen world wide fishing for forage fish to feed not only fish farms but the industrial chicken and pig farms throughout the USA and elsewhere. One serious problem with this is there are no restrictions on commercial forage fish catch here in the USA or anywhere in the world. The United Nations would like to do something about this but most third world countries and the USA will not allow them to do so. The third world countries because they are doing most of the forage fishing the USA and Canada because the Aqua Culture industry is locked in in N. America. One must understand that much of the industry is multi national and that profit in the fish farm industry is not as important as the control of land and sea, it's called land holdings and political power for other more profitable ventures within the countries they are in. Just check out the fish farm industry in S. America and S.E. Asia and see what displacement of coastal villages and violence against those in those countries who dare protest the farms.
I wish fish farms would work but I can see no way that they can. Industrial fish farms will never feed the third world poor even at the price they sell at is way too high because of calories used to grow, process and get to market to calories benefited to human consumption. Fish farms are for the benefit of the the 1st world middle income peoples who have over the last twenty or so years demanded food that is non reginal and out of season. We must stop this life style if we are going to get our calorie out put to human consumption in calories back to a more healthy ratio. It is not just fish farms but all industrial food farming that is the worlds problems. We have been told for years that industrial farming would solve the problems of world hunger it has not.
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An interesting topic -
after reading all that I can find on the subject I have formed an opinion that on the whole I would rather that the housewives of North American serve their families framed salmon rather than commerically caught salmon.
First regarding the PCBs found in farmed and wild salmon. While the commerical industry has made much of the fact the wild salmon have much lower PCB content that farmed fish. This is correct but ignores that not all salmon species are the same. For example the wild salmon that were found to have low PCB content were pinks and chums (other work indicates that sockeye have low levels as well) however as the article quote says wild chinook have levels which can at times exceed that of framed salmon. The reason of course is diet. The farmed fish and the wild chinook feed higher up on the food chain than pinks and chums. The bait fish (whether in the commerical fish food or those eaten by free swimmng salmon) concentrate the contaminates in their diet which in turn are concentrated as the salmon eat them. The pinks and chums feeding primarily at the same trophic level as the bait fish. Those chinook mostly likely to have contaminate levels are those with high fat content (springs, Copper river, etc -the PCB are concentrated in the animals fats) and the larger -older fish. The very large chinook have 4 to 6 years in which the PCB can build up.
The concern about the bait fish that farmed fish consume is another issue that is often raised. The real problem here is that we in the developed countries insist in consuming our protein in meats from animals in upper tropic levels (beef, chicken, salmon, etc). If we would confine our take of protein from soy and fish meal there would much more to go around. I don't expect that to happen any time soon. That said farmed fish will produce more pounds of protein for a given amount of feed than a wild fish. Unless we are willing to change our diets consuming farmed salmon is a more efficient human use of the forage resource.
While I share the concerns with diseases/sea lice and escapees from the net pen operations these impacts tend to be local. While we should continue to work to reduce those impacts I believe that even at current levels those envirnomental impacts are less than other sources protein - the beef and chicken industries and the impacts from commerical fishing. The impacts from say beef grazing and feed lots on the terrestial and aquatic envirnoments should be apparent to all. Commerical salmon impacts are widespread and include such things as by-catch issues in net fisheries, selection against larger, older and faster growing individuals in the population by net and hook and line fisheries.
In short as long as the human race continues to population the earth at current or large levels and we continue to insist on the luxury of taking our protein from high tropic levels we will be faced with the unpleasant task of choosing from poor choices. In this case for me at least the marketing of farmed salmon is a lesser evil than marketing commerically caught wild (free swimming) salmon.
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The industrialization of societies created many benefits for many people. Indeed, if people didn't realize benefits, it is doubtful we would have industrialized to the extent we have. However, researchers are increasingly finding apparent costs to this industrialization which were never anticipated. For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by 2015 30% of all deaths worldwide will be due to cardiovascular disease. Look left, look right, look in the mirror. Assuming there were people to your left and right, one of the people you looked at is likely to die of cardiovascular disease. So what does this have to do with industrial societies? Well, researchers studying people in non-industrial societies are finding incredibly low incidences of cardiovascular disease. This pattern holds even when the people show pronounced "risk factors" for cardiovascular disease. A risk factor is something Western medicine uses to predict someone's susceptibility for a disease. Think about this for a second. Not only do these people not develop cardiovascular disease, they go against the big predictors that "modern" societies use to determine the risk of the disease and justify prescribing drugs to prevent the disease. Seems like people like the Tsimane of Bolivia have a lot to teach us.
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Use the resources below to answer the following questions:
- What sort of lifestyle do the Tsimane live? Why does this make them an interesting group to compare to industrial societies? Remember the principles of experimental design in answering this question.
- What risk factor of cardiovascular disease do the Tsimane display? How does this situation affect them? Do you think it is a good idea to treat people based on risk factors? Why or why not?
- What hypothesis have researchers formulated to explain the extremely low incidence of cardiovascular disease among the Tsimane?
- What sorts of maladies do the Tsimane suffer from? How does this affect their life expectancy? How does this compare to life expectancy in industrialized nations?
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPIy3UvFfJk
- http://www.unm.edu/~tsimane/tsimaneinfo.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/health/in-the-bolivian-amazon-a-yardstick-for-modern-health.html?pagewanted=all
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- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722089/
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK45688/
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How right you are. It gets me really mad that some of the so called sporting groups continually look to the tribes and their killing of Wild Steelhead and not at their own kill rate. I may be wrong but once I looked at the 1997 kill report for the State of Washington on Wild Steelhead. Thought it said about 40,000 killed by sportsmen State wide which was about 3000 more than the tribes reported. If anyone knows the exact #'s I would be interested to read them. Remember it was reported fish, you got to wonder about how many on both sides did not report kill.
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Like most everyone else who's posted on this board, I'm angry and disappointment about the decision to close our March-April fishing next year. But given the lousy escapements of the past 2 years, I think it's the right thing to do, in spite of the lousy science that's behind many WDFW decisions and their history of "reactionary management". At least this closure errs on the side of the fish.
How might we avoid "emergency closures" in the future?
I'm pretty hopeful that this closure will be short-term, that our spring steelhead will rebound this year and next, due in part to much improved ocean conditions that kicked
in during the summer of 1998. But there's no guarantee that the fish numbers will rebound, or that good ocean conditions will last much longer. In the longer term, I don't think there's any question that our wild fish are in trouble from habitat loss and degradation. For instance, the Skykomish Valley is in the midst of a paving and strip-malling boom. This can't be good news for wild fish.
Like Juro, I'm also angry about the policies that have effectively separated hatchery and wild fish return timing. WDFW considers this a great success because they can now manage a kill fishery from November-February, and a native C&R fishery in March and April. Who told them the early part of the wild run was expendable? This strategy was driven by politics, and not guided by anything approaching "good science". I doubt we can afford any more genetic or behavioral narrowing of our wild stocks. These fish evolved to deal with life in an uncertain world, and their diversity has been their key to success. We have got to stop squeezing that diversity.
I think we need a 100% no-kill policy on unmarked steelhead and selective harvests in all our streams. Fish wheels and fish traps are old technology that were good enough to overharvest the Columbia River runs before 1900, and there is no question that they can be put in our rivers and be effective at catching hatchery fish and releasing the natives. If we could go to year-round selective harvest, there's an opportunity for some win-win deals. The tribes could harvest the hatchery stocks without taking wild fish, sports fishers that like killing wild fish couldn't point at the tribes and cry for "their fair share", and those early returning fish would get a chance to spawn and rebuild that part of the run. This state cranks out enormous numbers of hatchery steelhead, so it's pretty difficult to claim that we need more opportunities to kill steelhead. On the other hand, Washington is the last stronghold for killing wild steelhead. Killing wild steelhead is outlawed in Oregon and BC, and in most California streams.
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day 28 , did i miss my nitrite spike ?
tank 20 gallon high with 20 gallon rated whisper filter, bottom of the tank is ~82'f slightly higher near the top,I have had an airstone in the tank + i tossed the aquaclear 20 powerhead on a few days ago for more circulation + aeration. Yes i used prime when i filled the tank and any time i topped the tank off with some water due to evaporation ( like once ) .
i suspect that i may of missed my nitrite spike. i have been testing daily for ammonia a nitrites since 2/22/13 when i first dosed 2.0 ppm. It took awhile at first for that to drop.
2/22/13 first dosed with 2.0 ammonia 0 nitrite
slowly drops daily
2/28/13 (1 am again calling it the 27th ). ammonia hit 0 (first time) 0 nitrites so I re-dosed again with the same amount (1 cap).
slowly drops on the days the between
2/28/13 8pm ammonia 2.0 nitrites 0
slowly drops on the days the between
3/2/13. ammonia hit 0 again 0 nitrites re-dosed again
slowly drops on the days the between
3/5/13 ammonia between 0-0.25 0 nitrites
3/7/13. 1 am ( was late testing this one call it the 6th because it was like 1 am and i normally test around 8 pm) 0 ammonia 0 nitrites re-dosed 1 capfull
3/7/13 8 pm ammonia 2.0 nitrites 0
slowly drops on the days the between
3/9/13 00:16 am ammonia 0.25 nitrites 0
3/10/13 8 AM ammonia 0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull
3/10/13 8 pm ammonia 2.0 nitrites 0
3/11/13 ammonia 0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull
3/12/13 ammonia 1.0 nitrites 0
3/13/13 ammonia 0.0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull
3/15/13 00:00 am (another late one consider it the day before) ammonia 1.0 nitrites 0
3/15/13 9 pm ammonia 0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull
3/16/13 ammonia 1.0 nitirites 0.0
3/17/13 ammonia 0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull
3/18/13 ammonia 1.0 nirites 0
3/19/13 ammonia 0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull
3/20/13 ammonia 1.0 nirirites 0
3/21/13 ammonia 0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull - got curious after had added the ammonia and decided to test for nitrates came up with 80.0ppm
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I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will be along shortly to assist you, but for now, maybe I can help. When you add ammonia how long does it take for the reading to come up as 0 ppm? From my understanding your tank is fully cycled when within a couple hours of adding ammonia, both your nitTRItes and ammonia read 0.
Sometimes you won't see the trite spike happen, even though it actually does. Assuming you haven't cleaned anything and restarted your cycle, it sounds to me like you are done.130g: 4 Angelfish, 2 Roseline Sharks, 12 Conga Tetras, 5 Kuhli Loaches, 1 Otocinslus, 1 Corydora
thanks yeah i most defiantly haven't cleaned anything :) i suspect that tomorrow
it will be 1.0 ammonia again 0 nitrites 80 ppm or more nitrates as far stocking goes i should do large water change and get those that ammonia an nitrates down an stock the tank.
as far stocking user Cermet gave me this suggestion " A 20 gal can hold a number of fish; Betta's are good community fish but never add barbs who will attack the Betta's fins. A school of neons or cardinals (12- 15), and a smaller school of Corries (6-8) are classic and very nice fish. Bleeding hearts would be good or black widow tetras. "
i already have the rescue male betta in a small tank in the same room just waiting for his new home. was not sure how much stock and what i should pick up towards the stock first aside from the fish i already have. defiantly interested in some corries. not sure what the local fish place (not a chain) has in stock right now that i have gift card to either. should i go for the larger school of which first then get the corries later?
Not sure why you began the cycle with 2ppm of ammonia but then raised it to 8ppm. Your size tank would have done well to start at the 2ppm you used and then reduced to 1ppm once you saw nitrites registering.
But........you have never had nitrites according to your chart but I am also not seeing any nitrAtes, either. It looks to me as you have cleaned your filter or did not use dechlorinator and appears as you have not even started your cycle or lost it along the way.
Did you read the cycling threads in my signature? It may answer some questions for you. Good luck.
Re-read and see the nitrates now but 80 in nitrates is a clear indication you have overdosed the ammonia. Cut back as you have now done and things should finish up for you. Stock "nothing" until you have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and nitrates below 20.
Last edited by Lady Hobbs; 03-22-2013 at 02:05 PM.
most defiantly used seachem prime first time i did enough for 20 gallons on the entire tank , never cleaned a thing most i did was add 1 gallon to the top of the tank that had evaporated which i used the proper dose of prime for 5 gallons of water (used some of the rest to change the water in the tiny tank with the betta. i wrote that first section poorly but are you sure that you re-read correctly as i never raised it to 8 ppm? that was me just pointing out the time as it deviated from normal. i dosed 1 capful which gave me 2.0 ppm to start and every time i re-dosed i used the exact same amount and as you can see on days i deviated from normal time it showed as 2.0 ppm on the next test.
"2/28/13 8pm ammonia 2.0 nitrites 0"
"3/10/13 8 AM ammonia 0 nitrites 0 - re-dosed 1 capfull "
"3/10/13 8 pm ammonia 2.0 nitrites 0
I have read your very detailed amazing post many times and much appreciate you taking the time to write it so well.
so as i see it the only thing i did seemingly wrong was continuing to dose 2.0 ammonia when i should of been doing 1.0 ammonia (never saw a spike hence the post + the random test for nitrates last night)
thanks for both your time by the way just being thorough this is not my first cycle but just my first fishless one.
Last edited by justanothertank; 03-22-2013 at 03:38 PM.
Oh poopie! Now I see what you are saying. Nonetheless, still too much dosing. Dose your ammonia only one time per day no matter how fast it drops to 0. But only dose when ammonia has reached 0. For instance, if you do your test and see ammonia is at .50, then don't dose that day but wait for the next day and try to do it about the same time each day. Like each morning or each night, whenever you feel like.
Sorry I misread.
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i never dosed ammonia twice in a 24 hour period, here is an example that i left out dates to make my post not so long.
2/22 - 8 pm - ammonia 2.0 ppm (after the first dose)
2/26 -8 pm - ammonia 0.0 - 0.25 | nitrites: 0.0
2/27- no test at 8pm missed my test by 5 hours
2/28/ -1 am - ammonia: 0.0 (first time)| nitrites: 0.0 - redosed ammonia to 2.0 ppm (1 capfull)
3/1 - 11 pm - ammonia: 0.50 -1.0 | nitrites: 0.0
3/2 - 8 pm - no testing
3/3 - 8 pm - ammonia: 0.50 | nitrites: 0.0
3/4 - 8 pm - ammonia: 0.25 | nitrites: 0.0
3/5 - 8 pm - ammonia: 0.0-0.25 | nitrites: 0.0
3/6 - i was late on testing by 5 hours (over slept) so tested when i woke up on
3/7 - 1 am - ammonia: 0.0 | nitrites: 0.0 - redosed to 2.0 ppm (1 capfull)
3/7 - 8 pm - ammonia 2.0 | nitrites: 0.0 - was only checking again to keep testing regular an 2.0 was what i excepted.
3/8 - over slept a lil bit did it when i woke as shown in first post on 3/9 00:16 am
my question is what now ? am i finished or not ? Can i just do a large water change to bring my nitrates down bellow 20 ppm and stock or not?
Last edited by justanothertank; 03-23-2013 at 02:47 AM.
2/22 - ammonia: 1.0 | nitrites: 0.0
2/23 - ammonia: 0.0 | nitrites: 0.0 - Re-dosed slightly less 2/3 of a capful
please advise!
also didn't test nitrates again but i know its 80.0 ppm or higher finished or not i suspect yes ? as mandyk suggested
my basic understanding of chemistry in general say them nitrates didn't come from no where as i suspect Nitrobacter caused that N03. But lady hobbs made me have doubts. * more info the tank was setup for 3 years the last fish died i let the filter run awhile while i decided what to do. I decided to shut it down for awhile. 1-2 months (don't have exact) it sat with some water so bb died off. I drained the tank + vacuumed it out. filled it again vacumed to gravel line. cleaned the filter a bit the sponge i rinsed and i cleaned a bit near where the impeller goes . Filled the tank + added prime. ran the filter for a day or so to make sure it was running properly (had carbon in it for a day). I removed the carbon bag waited 2 days or so added ammonia.
Last edited by justanothertank; 03-24-2013 at 04:45 AM.
hey another semi related question before i get a response as far filtration goes. AquaClear Quick Filter Powerhead Attachment is this considered a sponge filter ? i am assuming yes and BB will also grow in it ? i was considering picking up the attachment for my powerhead either way sometime later today. i have some salvinia i was going to add to the tank and was hoping i could do large water change drop nitrates under 20.0 ppm and stock. Thanks in advance for your time.


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This is a sweet and delicious dish. Some thoughts: -How this recipe comes out is dependent on the type of bread you use, as well as how much bread you use. That is what determines how much liquid is soaked up into the bread and whether it comes out crusty or mushy. I've made it soft with challah bread and a lot of liquid and crispy on top with 1" slices of Trader Joe's french bread, which is not as 'crusty' a bread as some. This is my preference. For a Pyrex baking dish that's around 10x13 I added another quarter cup of half and half and another egg. It was barely enough liquid. Next time I would add another quarter of a cup of liquid. The one inch bread slices filled the pan and I filled in any holes so the entire surface was covered. - Also, I soaked the bread in the mixture in a bowl and then transferred to the baking dish, which I had covered in the brown sugar/butter mixture and refrigerated to set up - this probably isn't necessary, but it gave me a nice base with which to manipulate the bread on top. - for the base, I used 3 T. of maple syrup instead of corn syrup, and I added 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon that cuts the sweetness but doesn't make it too cinnamony. . It lends a nice flavor and I wanted it to for sure stay liquid at room temperature since it was going on a buffet. - I substituted 1 Tablespoon of aged rum for the gran marnier and doubled the vanilla. The rum flavor doesn't really come through so this is probably unnecessary.
Made this for our church Easter Breakfast -- everyone loved it. Easy to serve for a large group. Used French bread with the crust on in a 10x15 pan so I did 1-1/2 times the recipe. Would definitely make this again.
I prepared this as written and found the texture to be so soft as to be unappealing. After lifting each pieces out of the pan, I flipped them to reveal the caramel side. The sauce was quite liquid however and I spooned additional sauce on each piece. Perhaps had I made it with baguette slices and kept the crusts on there would have been a bit more chewiness to the dish or perhaps put some nuts in the topping. Perhaps if I had flipped the whole dish out onto a cookie sheet and run it under the broiler I might have approximated the Creme Brulee aspect that is in the recipe's name..
I made this for the family twice and they loved it. The kids are especially picky eaters and they devoured it. I did decrease the amount of (light brown) sugar though. The taste is amazing and we also eat it cold, which the wife actually prefers.
The flavors were nice, but the finished dish was a little too custardy for my taste.
Most people would call this recipe "bread pudding." That said, it was really very good, just extraordinarily sweet. For once, we made it exactly as written, right down to cutting the crusts off the round loaf of bread. The french toast part was delicious - custardy, but somehow managing to maintain some texture. The brûlée part was basically a thick layer of almost taffy on the bottom of the pan. Don't leave out the corn syrup. It's not really for flavor or extra sweetness; it's because you're making caramel in the bottom of the pan. We served it with some bacon and raspberries, both were great with it. I'd say this easily serves four hungry adults. All in all, it's pretty good. Combine a sticky bun with french toast and you get this. Rich, sweet, delicious. Just be prepared for the sugar rush that will soon follow.
I had this at my husband's aunts house and loved it so much that I had to find it to make. I made this the last two Christmas mornings which everyone had seconds. I brought the leftovers to work and shared it with a co-worker who wanted the recipe. Making this with bacon, you get the perfect combination of sweet and salty. I can't wait to make it again except then I'll have to buy a new wardrobe!!
Had this when a friend made it; made it myself for the first time today for a team brunch -- rave reviews! It fed more than 6 but we had a bunch of other food -- if this truly was the main/only course, 6 is about right -- but don't hesitate to err on the side of making 2 batches. I made according to the recipe except used Challah bread -- very good!
Any recommendations for a substitute for the corn syrup?
Absolutely the best french toast I've ever had. I use this recipe all of the time because it's so easy and I can make it in advance. It leaves time for tidying up when I have guests coming over. It's definitely a special event recipe however- nothing low-calorie here!


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Last Saturday on opening day of the fall turkey season I shot a nice gobbler with my bow. I've never shot a turkey in the fall before and noticed a few things that seemed different from your typical spring gobbler. The obvious ones were that his fan only had a few feathers of differing lengths (due to molting) and that his head looked similar to the head of a hen (probably since its fall and he's not as exited). Another thing I noticed was that he was very light. I didn't have a scale to weigh him since I was deer hunting and not expecting to shoot a turkey, but I weigh all my birds in the spring, and in Wisconsin the toms I've shot usually weigh about 23 pounds on average. Thats mostly 2 year old birds with a few older. This Tom had a very nice 11.5 inch beard and 1 and 3/8s inch spurs. However, I would guess he weighed not even 20 pounds. Is this because it is fall and the toms are smaller, or is it possible that this tom is so old that he is starting to get smaller? Also, I thought that his spurs looked very unusual as well. If you look at the picture, its almost like they maybe broke and regrew at one point. but the little extra piece at the end could also just be a random abnormality. Has anyone ever seen anything like this and possibly have an explanation? Also if anyone has any more information on how spurs grow, if you look closely its almost like they're made of layers or something. All I can find online is just the generic, "Male turkeys have spurs, at 18 months old they are less than half an inch.." blah blah blah, not really any information on what is actually biologically taking place.


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Metropolitan Opera volunteer builds Tupelo connections
Summer in Mississippi is summer in Mississippi. "I always say, 'I come for the heat and humidity, and I'm never disappointed,'" Alice Meyer said.
She makes her home in New York on the Upper East Side near Central Park for nine months of the year. For June, July and August, she comes down South.
That's meant Tupelo for the past 20 years.
"It's a wonderful place," she said. "I'm very impressed by the sense of community in Tupelo."
Her trips began when she met her husband, Elliott Saunders, who's owned factories in New Albany and Fulton. Meyer was a marketing director for the government of Israel and promoted Israeli fashions in the U.S.
"Elliott was at the same retreat in Jerusalem," she said. "We met that way."
The marriage created a connection to Tupelo, where she became a regular at the North Mississippi Medical Center Wellness Center.
"I like swimming and exercising. I've made a lot of friends there," she said, "and I learned T'ai Chi Chih," a series of low-impact exercises.
She's also learned that the Mississippi heat isn't as bad as some believe.
"I think it's easier to freeze here than up North because of all the air conditioning," she said.
Of course, she's a New Yorker at heart, and takes certain things for granted during those nine months. The Metropolitan Opera is almost like home, and she often has the run of the place.
"One of the things I do at The Met is bring patrons backstage during the intermissions to see the sets change," she said. "Very often, I'll bring them after a performance to meet the artists."
She once led a tour of students from the Jackie Robinson Foundation and introduced them to world famous tenor Placido Domingo.
"He was so kind," she said. "There were 30 or 35 of them. He spoke to all of them, shook their hands and asked what they were studying. It was great to be there for that moment."
As an opera volunteer, Meyer is knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
"She's a spritely and petite woman. She doesn't stand still very often," said Lisa Hayward, director of patron and individual giving at The Met. "She epitomizes what you want a volunteer to be. She says, 'I am here. Use me as you want.'"
Here's Meyer's take on volunteering: "If anybody ever says to you, 'It's not going to take much of your time.' Run."
That's followed by good-hearted laughter, because she certainly doesn't mean it as far as The Met is concerned.
"No, it doesn't take up too much of my time," she said. "I love every minute of it."
Meyer saw her first opera as an 8-year-old when a family member took her to a touring production of "Carmen." It was the beginning of a life-long love affair she wants to share with more of her Tupelo friends.
"I think opera can grab you at any time in your life," she said. "Of course, you have to be exposed to it."
The Cinemark at The Mall at Barnes Crossing is a good place to start. The theater screens live and encore high-definition productions by the Metropolitan Opera.
It's part of "The Met: Live in HD" series, which is broadcast around the world. An encore of "Rigoletto" will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, and a live stream of "Francesca da Rimini" will be broadcast at 11 a.m. March 16.
Meyer sincerely believes that if she could coax people into the theater, they'd find themselves thoroughly entertained and perhaps as entranced by the art form as she is.
"You see what's going on backstage during intermission. You see the artists going to their dressing rooms," Meyer said. "A lot of people like it better than the live performances because you get the close-ups on camera. You feel like you're in it."
Another thing the broadcasts have over live shows is subtitles.
"When they're singing, you know what they're saying," she said. "You know if they're saying, 'Close the door' or 'I love you' or 'I'm coming back.' It's easy."
Elvis connection
The cultural exchange goes two ways. Meyer has hosted her New York friends in Tupelo, and they've attended the Elvis Presley Festival.
"When friends come, I take them to see Elvis' house," she said. "They like that."
Going forward, she'll be taking visitors to a different Elvis house, Graceland. She and her husband recently moved to Memphis, so this past summer was probably her last in Tupelo.
"I hope I never lose my connection to Tupelo," she said. "I've made good friends."
And she dearly hopes all of her good friends in the South will give her passion for opera a try.
"If you're missing it, you're really missing an important part of life," she said. "How far you go? How deep you go? That's up to you. It's a marvelous form of entertainment. Go and enjoy. It's as simple as that."


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