Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

looking at 170watt/ channel.
Has microphone adjust feature, 7 hdmi in, 2 out, bluetooth, cec, arc, 4k hdmi, usb, 2 zone, didn't know what half the term meant.
Looked at a yamaha also, tsr7810.

This will lead to new surround system speakers, new tv, new stereo cabinet,.......

Can you use with just 2 speakers for now?

The Yamaha I mentioned has a stereo mode that just powers two speakers. Download the owner's manual for the one you decide on and read the sections on hook up and using the features. That should tell you if it has a stereo mode.

At the time, I found that the Costco receiver was an older model. Other Costco items are the same model but have a different model number, so it can get confusing unless you google by model number to help figure it out.

No idea what cec or arc are. Owner's manual should tell you more than you want to know. I only have one TV, so I'm still wondering what to do with the 2nd HDMI output. The Yamaha his Wifi, and supposedly I can download firmware updates to it. I can "cast" music/movies to it directly from a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, but haven't tried it. 4k HDMI will support the latest high resolution TVs, USB is useful for playing music or movies from an attached hard drive, the second zone is handy for powering a pair of speakers in another room. Zones can also refer to receivers from the same maker that can connect to the main receiver over wireless and display/play content. Expensive way to do something that an inexpensive AppleTV can do.

B&H Photo doesn't charge sales tax, and both Amazon and Costco do.

With 170 Watts/channel, you could also be looking for new windows, too!:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

hummingbirds fighting at wife's feeders.

I have one hummer that sits on the feeder on the sunny south side of the house, waiting to attack any others that approach. In the summer, it sits on the other side of the house, in the shade. A few birds hang around all winter, so I keep at least one feeder full on both sides of the house so everyone has a chance to eat.:banghead:

 

[daugen]

Drew,
On my 250 LP tank I can hook up a 40lb tank.

thanks David. The answer I guess is to swap out the 500 gallon tank for a thousand gallon tank and therefore be immune
to the poor performance of the provider. My older brother in VA said he had the same problem with his propane supplier, took forever to get
filled, but he has the larger tank, and you only have to fill it once for a year or two. Propane doesn't go bad at all so unless you buy at too high a price, doesn't seem
like much downside.

Looking like one of those visible ant farms, I pulled some mixed salad seedlings out to replant and what cool roots. That's five days to get to the bottom.
Speedy...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Drew,
On my 250 LP tank I can hook up a 40lb tank.

That same fitting might also fit a 5 gallon picnic bottle. It does on mine, and I used it that way when I moved the 350 gallon tank. It was summer, and it fueled the water heater and gas range for more than a week with no problems. Add a propane furnace, and it might not last very long at all.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

2 day delivery is next wed. Funny math.

That's two days once they ship it. But I've learned that Amazon usually ships same day, even on weekends, so stuff usually shows up before the expected date. Unless a second party is only using the Amazon order placing system, and shipping themselves, then it is anybody's guess when things will actually arrive. That's another advantage of using (and paying for) Prime, as it weeds out those types of suppliers.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That's two days once they ship it. But I've learned that Amazon usually ships same day, even on weekends, so stuff usually shows up before the expected date. Unless a second party is only using the Amazon order placing system, and shipping themselves, then it is anybody's guess when things will actually arrive. That's another advantage of using (and paying for) Prime, as it weeds out those types of suppliers.

This is prime, sold by amazon.

 

[toppop52]

Kyle, bring on the Temptations, you bet. This was modern stuff, awful. This was foul language just for the shock value.
Now in New Joisy, one can hear the F word used as a normal operating adjective, but this was way past that.

muffins and brownies done, house cleaned up, 27 out in bright sunshine, melting the snow.
Yeah to coming home for Riptides. The words of the Mommas and Papas come to mind:

Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin', it was all I hoped it would be

going to head out and deliver some brownies. Need to move the outback before it gets frozen in place.

I wish it was 27 here, made it to 18.
Finally dug out my back porch and walk so I can use my main avenue.

 

[toppop52]

This is prime, sold by amazon.

I’m a prime member, but it is not as good as in the past, fewer things qualify and more things end up taking longer. I don’t use the streaming services, I’ve considered dropping it.

 

[ronjhall]

I’m a prime member, but it is not as good as in the past, fewer things qualify and more things end up taking longer. I don’t use the streaming services, I’ve considered dropping it.

It seems like Prime means delivered in 2 days after shipped. Shipping may be 2 or more days after ordered.
Must be a new Amazon policy.

 

[rswyan]

RS, wondering how you're going to filter all those aquariums?

Since they won't be display tanks for the most part, I'll just use sponge filters (I like Azoo sponge filters)... which are cheap ($5 to $10 apiece) provide a place for beneficial bacteria - which handle the ammonia cycle - to grow.

Some of the beneficial bacteria consume ammonia - a highly toxic fish waste/decay product - and convert it to nitrite, which is still pretty toxic, but much less so than ammonia.

Still other beneficial bacteria consume the nitrite and convert it to nitrate ... which is way less toxic than the other two.

The nitrate gets handled either by doing partial water changes, or by setting up a specialized filter whose design and media allow anaerobic bacteria to grow. Anaerobic bacteria will actually consume the nitrate. Plants in the tank will also help, as they consume nitrate as well ... since it's a fertilizer.

Part of the reason for moving things into a single room and setting up racks is to make it easier to properly maintain the tanks. All the racks will have drain pipes (1" to 2") mounted on them that are plumbed into a sanitary drain that runs to our septic ... so that I can do water changes without having to lug buckets of drained water. If I get real frisky, I might eventually drill the tanks, install bulkhead fittings, and hard plumb each tank into the drain lines at some point. Then it's just a matter of opening the valve on a tank to drain it.

The replenishment water supply will be fed from hose bib that has a Honeywell water tempering valve plumbed into it, which will mix hot and cold water to within a few degrees of whatever temperature it's set to.

And what you do for de-chlorination?

We're on a well ... so no really chlorine to deal with ... other than when I use chlorine bleach to clean/disinfect something.

In those cases, I use a product called De Chlor (in a little green bottle) ... just takes a few drops to neutralize chlorine or chloramine.

Do you use a UV bulb in the flow to kill algae?

Nope ... algae is either fish food itself, or a place where fish food (aufuchs*) grows and lives. Most of the fish I keep graze on and pick at it continually.

(Aufwuchs (German "surface growth" or "overgrowth") is the collection of small animals and plants that adhere to open surfaces in aquatic environments, such as parts of rooted plants.)

Many (probably most) of the fish I'll likely raise (African Rift Lake cichlids) are omnivores ... and for many, their primary diet in the wild is the aufuchs. Their digestive tracts/intestines have evolved over time to be quite long, to aid in digesting the high amount of plant material that they eat. Feeding them a diet with too much animal protein will actually cause an often deadly disease - called Malawi Bloat - as their gut/intestines pack up and clog.

So (for non-display tanks) I just let algae grow for the most part ... until it gets to the point it's hard to see into the tank through the front glass, then I'll clean it off with a Mag Float ... so I can keep an eye on things. I have two tanks that are currently in that state, where it's actually getting tough to see into the tank through the front glass due to all the algae. The fish don't seem to mind however.

Will you connect them? Or keep them isolated?

Isolated for the most part, although the 100G Long will be a display tank and will have a 55G tank below it in the cabinet as a sump filter that it's plumbed into.

I hate to see dead fish at the pet store and see the water flowing from one aquarium to the next.

The only kind of dead fish I like to see is one I'm going to eat.

My daughter can't understand why I tell her to turn down her music on her cellphone...Hearing music from a 5mm x 15mm speaker just leaves something to be desired.

LOL ... no doubt.

Probably partially explains why I keep getting rebuffed, every time I suggest to the wife that she could watch a movie on Netflix on her cellphone.