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Fish and their Chips

26th November 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

You’ve seen the creation of the Aquarium, introduction of the fish and corals and watched it settle in.  The set up took around three months from initial purchase, fit out, water conditioning and maturing to [more…]

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Aquarium Building Continued

29th October 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

In previous episodes I’ve talked about starting a project to keep Marine tropical fish and corals. Such an endeavour is not to be taken lightly or if you are short of cash! With the tank [more…]

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Building the Aquarium

22nd October 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

In the last piece I got to the point of having bought a fishtank. Bloody massive thing, weighing in at about 150kg when empty (it took four blokes to lift it out of the house [more…]

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Project Fishy

16th October 2018 Sweaty Dave 0

Anyone who has read any of my articles knows I do like a good project. If I know that I’m going to be stuck in the house, looking after kids with bad weather, I need [more…]

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Give a man a fish

10th December 2016 Sweaty Dave 0

A poster asked a question about what would the assembled despicables of GP recommend as a hobby now the nights  are long and the weather foul. The most popular recommendation seemed to be railway modelling [more…]

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