chorrylan Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I borrowed a friends camera the other day and used it to capture a video walkthru of my fishroom. Enjoy and no rude comments about the mess 15MB version (site 1) 15MB version (site2) 84MB version (site1) 84MB version (site 2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raycam01_au Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 fantastic looking room, looks gr8 and a nice range of fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorgy Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Thanks for posting this, one of the best fish room video tours I have seen. Good to see those Tanganyikans are doing well, love the Cyprichromis tank. Have the N.cylindricus bred for you? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lepperfish Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Great video man, thanks heaps for sharing.. Great selection of fish you have and a wonderful setup to boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Thanks Laurie, nice work. I've had the pleasure of seeing Laurie's collection. It's very nice. Those frontosa are growing well. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orgazza Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Nice setup and fish, Just wondering what websie did you use for the hosting of your videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chorrylan Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Have the N.cylindricus bred for you? sort of..... I bagged up the trio from the top tank last saturday morning to send them off to auction because they were just wasting tank space, not breeding etc.... and while moving the rocks around to catch the last one I noticed some baby fry. So they got to stay and I sold off a spare female from each tank. I think the ones in the lower tank have fry at the moment or at least are thinking about it because the bristlenose in the tank are being picked on pretty badly if they show their heads outside of their own caves. Just wondering what websie did you use for the hosting of your videos? There are two: site-1 is my own; it only has 1Mbit outbound capacity so I parked copies on site-2 which is just a user site in the iinet complex, ie the kind of webspace you get for having an account with your ISP. Have they held up ok for people tryign to access them? I have relatively high speed connectiosn to both so can't really judge how they work for other folk. If I can borrow the camera again I'll try to create some smaller video sequences for particular tanks/species and one on the fishroom construction, plumbing etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinny Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Is the electricity bill over the top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chorrylan Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Is the electricity bill over the top? I try not to think of such things or it takes the enjoyment out of it :-) There is a fair bit of lighting around the room but that is by choice. The lighting circuit includes a timer in series with 5 separately switched circuits; 4 go to the ceiling to three banks of 4 foot flouros (one is not wired in hence the 3 vs 4 mismatch) and one is used for all the overt-tank lighting. If I was energy conscious there's enough light from one or perhaps two of the ceiling flouros using say 80 watts. I recently switched to the other extreme and added the over-tank lights and only turn the ceiling lights on occasionally as the fish are less conscious of me when they're in the light and I'm in the dark plus it's just plain better viewing and the room is for me not them :-) That unfortunately bumps the power consumption for lighting up to about 360 watts. The lights are on for a 12 hour cycle from 1PM to 1AM to suit my timetable. The heating and cooling is a wall hung reverse cycle unit on the end wall that has a power consumption rating of 650 watts when cooling and 840 watts but I'm not sure what it actually uses on average as it's significantly overrated for the room and gets to spend a fair bit of the time idling and is off during much of the day. There are also a few submersible heaters in the ground level catfish tanks; say 250 watts worth but operating for say 50% of the time max. There's about 500 watts worth of water and air pumping going on; I could and eventually will reduce that by replacing some of my older power hungry units with laguna pumps. In the wintertime I will run two extra 250 watt heaters in the waterchange tanks so there isn't as much ice in 'em for waterchanges (I have two 1000L tanks for conditioning water out the back of the garage in an unsealed but fairly well protected structure. They're insulated as well as I could but it gets darned cold here) So that's another 500 watts operating for about 5 months a year Giving a grand total of around 33 KW Hours or $4 per day; $1500/year. I haven't paid that much attention to it but based on casual observation of my electricity bills that's about right. If I switched back to the room lighting instead of tank lighting and switched some pumps over to lower power units I could trim this back to an average of 27KH hours/day and save maybe 75c/day or $300/year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Wow! Great fishroom and selection of fish Laurie. You have obviously put alot of work into it. Thanks for showing With that amount of fish, how often do you do water changes on your sumped systems? Cheers Joel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cichlabxr Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Thanks Laurie. Very nice. An enjoyable 7 minutes. I downloaded the 9Mb first, from site 1, thought it was only black and white. So I then decided to go for the 84Mb from site 2. No problems with either. Turns out someone had turned my video controls back to zero. Wow both colour but 84Mb better quality. Leaves us wanting more!! Hopefully you can get the camera again and do the other videos. Regards, Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D6C1 Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 wow! The 84mb file was well worth the download! Looks awesome mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serkan Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 With a voice like that, you could be a phone sex operator. Haha. Just kidding. Nice room mate. Kept my eyes wide open for a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosco Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 With a voice like that, you could be a phone sex operator. Haha. He is Just dial 1300 chorry and there you go Oops I have said too much Great vid Laurie I must come down to see how the WC kits have settled in. Not to mention how those new dividers went. cheers rosco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ong Bak Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Thats a great looking room, you may have made an enemy of my fiance though, she came over to see what I was watching, and starting saying "No No No" with increasing levels of distress while she walked off. Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zifin Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Great looking room , fish , worth the wait to down load the 84mb cheers kelvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chorrylan Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 saying "No No No" with increasing levels of distress while she walked off. You wouldn't believe how often I get that :-( I shoulda market-tested before blowing all my money on the 1300 business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_frontosa Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Great Tour mate love the Danger sign infront of the door but very organised fishroom thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
multip Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Thanks for the tour, great room and fish. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeppry Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Cool setup ya got goin there and awesome range of fish. cheers for the tour Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichzorro Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 WOW must have cost you a small fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chorrylan Posted May 6, 2008 Author Share Posted May 6, 2008 WOW must have cost you a small fortune. yep I guess so... but tell me a hobby/sport/pasttime that doesn't end up costing a fortune *sigh*. I learnt fairly early on that keeping records of what I spent was a bad idea so most of the time I can be oblivious to it :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilly Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 nice room mate im with you on keeping record on what youve spent when you look back at reciepts a couple of months later it scares you. hilly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CThompson Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Nice one Laurie. I enjoyed your tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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