In Memoriam - Brita Borg (1926-2010) The things we did last summer
The beautiful voice of Brita Borg have silenced, today we was reached by the sad news that our loved singer and comedian Brita Borg have passed ...
Philip Greenspun#39;s Weblog ยป Home aquarium that can be viewed from ...
A household member has demanded that I set up an aquarium on a kitchen island countertop. This will probably be 20-40 gallons, glass (tired of acrylic scratches), and contain freshwater community fish. The aquarium will be viewable from four sides. Without drilling through granite, it would be impossible to have any filtration underneath. I want to minimize equipment hanging off the sides and it would also be nice, for leak-proofing, to minimize the extent to which water travels outside of the area covered by the tank.
It would be nice to have the following:
excellent mechanical filtration, like the best canister filters reasonable biological filtration (I’ve been told that almost any water movement and some gravel is sufficient to keep nitrifying bacteria alive) light for fish viewing; need not be bright enough for growing plants heater sufficient to keep the temperature...