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wow, you have 12k messages? man, you been busy!! :) but you want to keep ants?

I am in Cape Town.. I do not follow any sport The aquarium scene is somewhat convoluted. Lack of competition means that many shops sell non aquatics. It is hard to get substrate, rocks and quality wood. However I improvise and have a nice collection of rocks and wood. :) it is africa.. lots...

Yeah.. got big ass dogs here.. but we need it.. Just bought a small holding, 5000sqm.. will setup emersed growing tents here.. I now grow plants in the garden and sell ... a mini tropica. Sent from my SM-G800F using Tapatalk

I did not give the hobby a break.. still have about five or six running aquascapes, just busy with the moving to SA.. Trying to catch up in the forums.. so came across this post. James Star Marshal, stil scapping? And Alastair, have not heard about him for ages.. Sent from my SM-G800F...

I have not been on the forum for a few years.. So ceg, Mark and James C have not been active? What happened? Sent from my SM-G800F using Tapatalk

IT Security Manager for one company, and Infrastructure Engineer for another. So yes, I work for two companies.. I can work from home, with the odd travel to places like Malta, Curacao, Sweeden, Toronto and Ireland. Was based in London previously, now working from South Africa. Overworked...

You will not find better aquascapers than here.. always new things to see and learn.. And Ceg is here.

Amazing, it was shared..

Have a great christmas ... :) welcome back mate

LOL.. good luck on that.. :)

Ok.. just that as my iphone was not jailbroken and the thing was still blocking me. :) Thanks for having fixed it, makes a big difference. On another note with spammers, if you got a captcha phrase to register, all the spam you get has to be from manual registrations, right?

And no.. Iphones do not have malware.. Where we use tapatalk. The issue is the implementation and false positives..

Issue is not with tapatalk, I use it fine with 4 other forums. Ukaps is hard to post to due to those issues, so now I just read. I used to post a lot, but too many issues now.. :(

They do eat the plants, but its ok, these plants are a weed emersed..;) ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

My kid's snail pet.. Jagunco do Monte by GHOSTSWORD, on Flickr

Got Adobe Premiere @ PC World, a mere £59.. had a play with it last night, and it was ok.. Now I need a new workstation, my PC only has 4gb of ram and during a 1hour video edit it conked out almost on the end. :)

Good man! ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

So you download yours every month without paying for it? No wonder magazines struggle to go online.. :)

Yep.. I was expecting to come back to melting crypts.. but they stayed ok. Well.. just luck maybe. :)

I have resumed high tech, but there was a large amount of plants taken out, leaving crypts, moss, hydrocotyles and java ferns. All low tech plants, but with the high light I would have expected to see at least a run on hair algae. I am happy that all is well, do not get me wrong, but would...

For the past month I have been pretty busy with work, so the tanks are slightly neglected, yet, I have no algae, apart from some green spot on the glass. No water changes, the CO2 has stopped for a week or so, no ferts, feeding the fish every two days, and lights at the same level as before...

I know now, my error.. :)

Thanks.. I am getting a trial of vegas today, will see how it works out. :)

The main reason is that I have a number of video dating from 2003, from travels and family, would like to do something with it. I am getting a workstation with dual cpu's and 6GB of ram, just for this, but to choose the software is hard. ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

Thanks that is the issue. I want something easy.. I have a trial of premiere and found it a pain. I am sure that it can do it all, but I am just a normal guy. Do a couple o videos for the family and that is it. However for the same price it does more.. I just need maybe to start reading. Will...

@ghostsword -- i would like to start editing some of my videos. Got a trial of Adobe Premiere and PowerDirector, Adobe is pretier, but PowerDirector is easier to get things done. Do you use any of them? ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

Sorry not me, as I used a copyrighted song youtube denied it. Will do another one soon. ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

I have one.. but they cannot be downloaded.. The digital is now exactly the same as the physical subscription, as I got both.. :)

Takashi Amano is redoing his monster Nature Aquarium -- http://www.aquajournal-digital.net/aqua ... dgxbv.gif/ And here as well -- Takashi Amano redoing his large tank... Just awesome.. http://www.aquajournal-digital.net/aqua ... zazmp.gif/

Link was fixed.. should be able to see it now..

@ghostsword - Got a waterproof camcorder and filmed the aquascape underwater. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYfHSYa ... ture=g-upl First try, need to get better at it, but for nice to see the fish.. :) ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

2gb for a xp pro is not bad.. Maybe a full rebuild, with a new disk.. :) I got a machine that is 8 years old, still xp and only 2gb, works fine.. Had two rebuilds. ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

Please post: - model of pc so that we see what is the maximum memory that can take - current memory - what is the available disk space - what is the OS Most issues related to slow pc are, in that order: - too many programs running on the background - virus - malware - not enough memory for what...

Good luck mate.. If you want I can ship you some Aquajournals, as I subscribe to them. :) In japanese, but good stuff.. :)

So why where those guys fined..? I am not shocked that the fish have been posted, but that the guys were fined. I don't get it. ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

Shocking... But some retailers sell fish online.. :( ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

Couple of guys fined for sending live fish through couriers. I did not know that it was illegal. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -post.html ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

If for Africa then the requirements are different. The biggest suppliers of kit in Africa are Toshibas, Dell and IBM, so he should stick to those brands. Why? Easy to find replacement parts for. Also, easy to service, and upgrade. I would steer clear of Sony's, Apple, Asus, and such stuff, and...

Dell outlet is a good place. Also look at the lenovos, the x61 and x200 are nice. Windows 7 Pro is superb, a completely different OS than XP, and 64 bit can address more memory and also run 32bit programs. ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

Dell outlet is a good place. Also look at the lenovos, the x61 and x200 are nice. Windows 7 Pro is superb, a completely different OS than XP, and 64 bit can address more memory and also run 32bit programs. ___________________________ Luis @ghostsword

At 17 I joined the Portuguese Air Force, MP K9 unit, did a tour in Angola and Bosnia, came to the UK 5 years after, and did all sorts, from pizza hut to Security Guard. For the past 12 years I have been working at a web company, setting up datacenters, call centers and server rooms. I am now...

Money no object? I would buy the house next door and grow emersed plants on the loft and start a collection of nanos, nothing above 100l. ___________________________

I got two kids, and there is no way that I miss changing nappies. Wife said that we could maybe have another. Told her that I rather adopt a kid already potty trained.. :) Or get a dog. The worse of parenting are nappy changes, when the babies get sick and vomiting. Everything else I can...

looks good ! ___________________________

It tastes good and it only takes one teaspoon to kill? :( i am signing it! ___________________________

My hobbies are reading, long distance walking, photography and browsing the web. I also like working with dogs, obedience of protection work. Sadly due to work commitments I do not have a dog. ___________________________

I spend a long time online, up to 12 hours a day, and I am member of a few forums. I can categorically say that UKAPS is by far the best forum I belong to. The people are very friendly, easy to deal with and there is a great collection of experts of all major areas of aquascaping and plant...

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Cool! I play mostly Battlefield 3, handle is pa093003c. Will add tonight when I log in. ___________________________

I would do something like "Identify my Plant", or fish compatibility app. Or if you want to go really fancy, a "Aquascaping App". One would input the sort of look, the size of tank, and amount of light and it would output the plants to use, the fish and where to place the rocks and wood. :)

Those dogs look amazing! Wow!! ___________________________

My resolution has to be sorting out my driving license, failed already three times :) . And do an iwagumi! ___________________________ Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

Hear hear. ___________________________ Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

Wow!!! Great use of nikon's, so easy to use and strong. :) Great video. ___________________________ I don't know what is the secret of success, but the secret of failure is trying to please the world!

Bf3 is indeed amazing, but moving to mw3, looking forward to it! The YouTube link is just amazing! .

You will love it!

Re: The Art of the Planted Aquarium 2012 Hannover, who is go An update.. Official website http://www.planted-aquarium.de/index.ph ... anted.html http://dl.dropbox.com/u/799185/The%20Ar ... er%201.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/799185/The%20Ar ... er%202.pdf I just need to now sort out the plane...

:) that was why I choose it! :) See i have seen you there! LOL! .

Yep, lots of tips you will get, at least I did. He us so fast planting and his rock placement technique was so good! Very refreshing! .

I have received authorization to share the link: Have a look and see how amazing the show is. This is just 10 minutes of a two hour show. .

Cool, I saw you on the movie! Just posted a 10 minute snippet, waiting on Ada Malaysia to approve the release, once Mr Chan approves it I will make it public. .

It was very cool and humble! No gimmicks, no fancy, no airs, just a great display of skill. Did not spot you on the crowd, don't know what you look like! :) .

Fantastic! you will not regret it! So inspirational! Amano does make look the planting easy! :) .

The DVD including registered Air Mail to UK is USD20.00. One of the best purchases I have made! And no, do not ask me to make copies, I will not do that. :) I was told that there is only 40 dvd's left, so if you want it buy, it is really good DVD. Was amazing to see Amano planting, he really...

I am with you on that one, it would not be hard to add a usb, memory card reader, and while they are it should add also a slide out qwerty keyboard. I would not mind if it was a little bit thicker. :)

I have purchased the DVD of Amano lecture and demonstration, from his visit to Malaysia in 2010. Received it last night and watched it with the family. It is almost 2 hours of professional footage, with English and Chinese subtitles. From: News ||| ADA Nature Aquarium - Aqua Design Amano...

I believe that the people that buy other tablets is because they want to be different. It would have very little to do with specs. Anything there that would beat an iPad in speed, convenience and style? There is a reason why is number 1 tablet. :) I haven't got one because I'm poor, and would...

It's amazing he?! No need to use a pc so often now. :) .

This is good, but the one I posted is the whole 58 minutes.. :)

@ghostsword Live stream from the 2011 IAPLC-Party http://www.aquajournal.ru/video_view.php?id=20 http://www.aquajournal.ru/video_view.php?id=21

Since cars were on the road, we always had issues with fuel prices! Not new..

Nice! Lenovo is a nice brand. Epsom is cool. But wireless setup is a small pain .

Yeah pc's are a better bet. I got my dual xeon going for 7 years, 4gb ram and works perfectly. Ok, I'm not really a gamer, but if I was I would just get an expensive graphics card and would be done. :) For laptops you cannot go wrong with a Mac, they are so much nicer than intel amd machines...

Thanks for the excelent post, really liked it. Will check the legality of using the road space, and if so it will make my journey to work much more comfortable and safer as I cycle sometimes. Usually my issue isn't cars or taxis but the bloody buses in London. The people driving them are the...

Get a Dell laptop, easy to fix and get parks for. The 5500 are good. Pc you can put together for really cheap money, £200 max, but laptop you better buy new, with warranties as too many things can go wrong. .

:) pulling your leg mate. :) Both phones are great, I think what tips the balance are the apps that can be installed. Some apps are even more expensive for android, but ultimately all depends on what you use the phone for. Iphone 5 with a larger screen would be great, I may also upgrade once...

But, if you go ahead and get a galaxy, it is also an amazing phone, just not as much apps as the iPhone. :) Hard to go wrong really! :p .

Don't listen to Paulo, get an iPhone, you will not regret it. Smaller, lighter, prettier and with great OS, lots of points over a galaxy. My two brothers have galaxy's, today I swapped phone with one of them for four hours. He is getting an iPhone now. :) If you know someone that has an...

Re: The Art of the Planted Aquarium 2012 Hannover, who is go I think that the best is to book early. The hotel was just 79 euros, and should get a flight for £100. :)

Re: The Art of the Planted Aquarium 2012 Hannover, who is go Just booked the hotel, going for two days, the 28 and 29. Anyone from UKAPS going?

@ghostsword Next live scaping contest in Hannover 2012 is confirmed :celebrate: Hi folks, got some good news from Harald (organizer of the event "The Art of the Planted Aquarium" in Hannover) Special guest Mr.Amano , Mr.Amano lecture Mr.Amano workshop Mr.Amano as a judge Here are...

You are a funny individual. You win, its ok.

But I never said that android dies not work. I just said that after working with open source for a whole day I like to have a phone that does what it says on the box. No security issues, I get the apps I need, looks nice and plays music. I get your position, got lots like that at work, if it is...

@dazzer1975 , open source is just not android you know? :) I work with servers, workstations and apps, and there are a lot of open source enterprise software for those. I like open source, but really like iOS and the iPhone. Makes sense? Also not sure what piece of plastic you are...

By the way, there is one app that is not available on android, just remembered, hipstamatic. Great app for pictures, and not on android. There may be more. :) Also maybe security issues? Just do a search about it. That alone should be reason enough not to get one. Yep, Nokias are a better...

:) I got no idea what part of an android does not work, never owned one, I just know that everything on the iPhone works perfectly. That is enough for me. :) I should've read the original post carefully, so due to iTunes the iPhone is out of the picture. Get maybe a Nokia? :) .

I like open source, full control of a piece of hardware, etc, but the iPhone does everything I need. :) Calls, txts, browses the web, ha lots and lots of apps, take amazing photos , good videos and the kids love it. Two or three apps for them installed. You see I work with open source all...

I have the iPhone 4 and I am a total convert. Always had blackberries from work, and resisted for as long as I could against the iPhone but when the contracts became accessible I got one. There isn't anything better that I know. :) .

I am sure that it is wrong keeping a big messy fish like a Goldfish in anything less than huge over filtered tanks or large ponds. They need the same dimensions of housing as big Cichlids like Oscars and Midas. My kids also asked me about keeping a goldfish, so I told them that if they could...

This the clue that we are not on the same level of understanding. So the fish would grow slowly on a small tank? And you are justifying the size of american catfish when on European waters? As if an European lake or river was that much smaller than the american. :lol: Have you thought that...

I would think of much more reasons not to, but if not for the fish for ourselves then: Bowls are boring, dirty looking, and too tacky. Here are five reasons why you should avoid using a goldfish bowl: Goldfish bowls are too small. Goldfish can easily grow to several inches in length with...

I think that to house properly a gold fish on a bowl, unless it is a large bowl, one would need to change water several times per day. That said, attach a large filter to a biorb, and it maybe would be good. :) Just as well that my kids started their fish keeping with manzy wood, neons and...

It is a hard one to fix. Many shops make money on bread and butter fish like goldfish, they are bought, then people kill them, then as they already have a bowl they come back for more. I was doing a talk at a local school and even the teachers were surprised at how long a goldfish lives if they...

Yep, no need to turn into a row. If I had the time one of breeds I would look at getting had to be a staff, I think that they are the best dogs for families with kids. They are actually the few dogs that were originally breed not to bite people but other dogs. The reason we don't have a dog...

:) Yeah, some dogs are just grunting. That one was really having a go at me. Had the dog been small I would have taken a chance, been bitten more times than I can remember, so another nip would not hurt much, but this one was big, with a big mouth and lots of teeth. A bite from that would for...

The dog came close enough, about 2 meters. That was enough for me, a mastiff running at you with teeth showing and close enough to get bricked is enough reason for me. Had I not seen the brick I would not have past the dog, would not risk it. I saw the dog looking at me, and was not sure that...

:) Come on, I know how to identify when a dog is coming at me or not, he did not come to say hello. Unless it was a mad dog that says hello by grunting and runs at you with teeth showing. Of course he could have come all the way to me and turn back, but I did not want to take that chance with a...

You are totally right, Staffies are amazing dogs, and I truly recommend a staffie as a family dog. Great with kids, very gentle but sturdy. The issue with all dog problems are the owners, the dogs are just doing what they were breed to do, unless there is a mental instability, I have heard of...

Of course I had a choice, walk back and find another road or protect myself. I chose to protect myself. Again, got nothing against working dogs, after all I trained attack dogs for a long time. But when walking on the street if you have a dog then it is your responsibility to control the dog...

I picked up a brick because I know what a dog can do. Have you even been bitten by a dog? I have all the empathy for the animal, but I value my bones and flesh much better. And just as well that I had the brick, wish I had a gun as I would have shoot him instead. Had that dog come even close to...