Watch the video...these tanks have not been cleaned or had water changes in 15 years
Clearwater Aquarium Filter System - A True Biological Filtration System
Clearwater Aquarium Filter System - A True Biological Filtration System
Never clean your aquariums?
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2 dollar per gallon for the plastic liner on bottom of tank? Ok goto lowes buy plastic sheet with dimples and home make one... nice idea if it works but then you would have a big powerhead on there to cycle water through it. Where does dirty stuff goto? what filter besides powerhead is attached? i will stick to the python simple to use and quick to clean.
Hmmm....the video says "revolutionary". 7 years of research + 15 years in that guy's tanks....and it's just NOW being advertised? You think they would have said something about it 15 years ago when the product was apparently available....unless the guy really HASN'T had it for 15 years. And at $2 a gallon? I call BS.
Snake oil usually means something is probably fake, will not work, or ineffective: generally speaking it is a scam.
Back in the late 1800's Chinese workers used snake oil as medicine while working here in the States. Traveling doctors would try to sell this stuff. You see those guys portrayed in a lot of old western movies.
Anyway, as it turns out, snake oil is real...but the active ingredient is found only in snakes indiginous to China...so the snakes they were using over here would not work, which led to the belief that snake oil was a scam. These days, it's just become a broad term.
And that is your history lesson for today.
Back in the late 1800's Chinese workers used snake oil as medicine while working here in the States. Traveling doctors would try to sell this stuff. You see those guys portrayed in a lot of old western movies.
Anyway, as it turns out, snake oil is real...but the active ingredient is found only in snakes indiginous to China...so the snakes they were using over here would not work, which led to the belief that snake oil was a scam. These days, it's just become a broad term.
And that is your history lesson for today.
Well... It's not that Chinese snakes had it and American snakes don't, it's just that Chinese Water Snake (E. chinensis) has an inordinate amount of the active ingredient (eicosapentaenic acid).
Generally speaking the Chinese Water Snake has 3-4 times the amount of EPA most other snakes have.
And that is your biology addition to today's history lesson
~JW
Generally speaking the Chinese Water Snake has 3-4 times the amount of EPA most other snakes have.
And that is your biology addition to today's history lesson
~JW
Awww, yes...thanks for correcting me. I wrote before really trying to remember all the facts. The EPA was usually obtained from rattlesnakes, etc., which only have about 1/3 the amount that the required snake has.
That just shows you what I know about pharmacology! My area of knowlege is mostly herbal...not snakes and other critters.
That just shows you what I know about pharmacology! My area of knowlege is mostly herbal...not snakes and other critters.
Anyone who has vaccuumed their UGF knows the kinda crap that's under there..
I'd like him to show us what the undersides of those tanks look like after 15 years of having a plastic plate stuck to the bottom of the cage... if the crap under there hasn't permanantly attached it to the bottom of the cage
If he has teh kind of set up like my lfs though his tanks, I can see the possibility of less cleaning of the cages because water circulates constantly and gets cleaned down in their basement and sterilized, but not for 15 years...
I'd like him to show us what the undersides of those tanks look like after 15 years of having a plastic plate stuck to the bottom of the cage... if the crap under there hasn't permanantly attached it to the bottom of the cage
If he has teh kind of set up like my lfs though his tanks, I can see the possibility of less cleaning of the cages because water circulates constantly and gets cleaned down in their basement and sterilized, but not for 15 years...