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Hardness lines

Hi Paul,
Try a little muriatic acid [strong stuff, be careful] on the water hardness
lines.  Use an old toothbrush to gently swap the acid on the mineral marks.
When gone, rinse well with plain water.  
If you don't want to go that route, then take a new single-edge razor blade
to the marks.  It will remove them also, but you run the risk of
undercutting your silicon caulk seams [if that's how the tanks were put
together].
mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Jablinski [SMTP:jablinsk at trinity_udayton.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:26 PM
> To:	killietalk at aka_org
> Subject:	RE: AIR PUMPS 
> 
> Thanks RJ,
>    Two weeks ago I built a nursery for my fry.  Since wood is very 
> expensive here, I only built a wooden frame and put 3/4 inch 
> styrofoam around it and over this, I put a plastic sheeting.  My front 
> door of this thing is made from styrofoam with plastic sheeting 
> around it.  I thought my $6. pump would be quiet behind all this, 
> but it wasn't.  I have ringing in the ears for some time now and the 
> hum didn't help it.  I wanted to hatch my bbs in the nursery giving a 
> gentle flow of air around the nursery.  I put a heater in a two liter 
> container of sand - heat for the winter months - I don't like sleeping 
> in a warm room in winter - and the fry seem to grow better in a 
> warmer climate.
>    The next time I'm in the store I'll check the whisper pumps out.  
> Thanks.
>    And now I can use my air conditioning unit without bothering the 
> fry.  I often wondered how killie keepers heated such small 
> containers of fry, and now I know.  This whole thing cost me about 
> 50 dollars, but a couple of Sundays ago I sold that amount of killies 
> in Cincinnati, so I'm ok.
>    Right now I have about 1000 fry in a number of sizes.  When they 
> get too big for the nursery, I put them into plastic shoe boxes.
>    I'm thinking of cutting back on some of my aquariums this year.  
> I made about 15 - 3gallon aquariums a couple of years ago.  I'm 
> thinking of selling 7 of them this month to our new university 
> students who will be coming here in a couple of weeks for school.  
> What do you think would be a fair price?  They are very clean and 
> clear except for a water line that I can't get out.  I even thought of 
> including a pair of killies with each one.
>    I would appreciate your imput,
>    Bro. Paul
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