RE: [Killietalk] North Olmstead Aquarium

["Kray, Edd" <Edd_Kray at rf.doe.gov>]

Hi Mark,

Trickers was a different place. It's in Independence, right off
Brecksville Road and still operating. They do mail-order on water lilies
and pond supplies and send out a nice catalogue every spring, even now.
Trickers isn't very big on tropicals, but for lilies, still one of the
best.

But North Olmstaed Aq. Was just up the street from the old Sea Horse
Aquarium.

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces+edd_kray=rf.doe.gov at aka.org
[mailto:killietalk-bounces+edd_kray=rf.doe.gov at aka.org] On Behalf Of
Mark Delraso
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:36 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: RE: [Killietalk] North Olmstead Aquarium

Hi All, the place that you are referring to in North Olmstead was called

Trickers. Spelling may be wrong.  I used to go there as well as a place 
called the Sea Horse Aquarium in Fairview Park.  Thats where the first
pair 
of killies that I had came from: Chocolate Australes.

Mark Delraso
Columbus,Ohio

>From: "Kray, Edd" <Edd_Kray at rf.doe.gov>
>Reply-To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
>To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
>Subject: [Killietalk] North Olmstead Aquarium
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:04:29 -0700
>
>Hey Al, Is North Olmstead Aq. still there? I'd heard it closed up.
>
>I remember round about 1975 walking in there and finding a tank of
>unidentified pastel-colored Rivulus. The price tag was 25 cents apiece.
>No-one knew what they were. It wasn't until the 80's that someone else
>brought them in as Rivulis Agilae and sold them for $100 a pair that I
>found out.
>
>What ever happened to those great old stores that brought things in
>direct from overseas rather than relying on local wholesalers.
>
>N. Olmstead was great. More of an aquatic greenhouse than an aquarium.
>He raised all his own Amazon swords and crypts and when the old Dutch
>guy sold you one, he'd spend 15 minutes picking out the best specimen
>from his dozens of flats.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: killietalk-bounces+edd_kray=rf.doe.gov at aka.org
>[mailto:killietalk-bounces+edd_kray=rf.doe.gov at aka.org] On Behalf Of Al
>Anderson
>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:54 AM
>To: killifish discussion list
>Subject: RE: [Killietalk] RE: Room heating systems
>
>Paradise Aquarium of NY, Beldt's Aquarium of MO., North Olmstead
>Aquarium of
>north Olmstead, Jeff Kuklehan and Paradise Gardens of Mass. And Duane
>Wake
>of Ft. Wayne Indiana. All have tanks heated by hot water running under
>their
>tanks. That larger places had coal or oil burning furnaces heating the
>water
>to run through 1 1/2 iron pipes. North Olmstead had the pipes running
>under
>their vats in the back.
>
>
>killiman at iquest_net
>Al Anderson
>6246 N Rural
>Indianapolis IN 46220
>317 253 2170
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org]On
>Behalf Of Koran, David HQ02
>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:45 AM
>To: killietalk at aka_org
>Subject: [Killietalk] RE: Room heating systems
>
>I must apologize for not reading all of the threads but I was curious
if
>anyone has looked at or tried a dedicated hot water heating system.  I
>have
>a
>large unheated "room" with windows and a couple of skylights.  It has a
>thermostated fan that kicks in at 90oF in the summer and I use the
>"room"
>for
>all of my summer breeding for Cyprinodons and other temperate killies.
>In
>the winter, even when the temperature drops below zero all I have every
>seen
>a skin of ice on a few tanks.  Now that I have a lot of water mass in
>the
>room/conservatory the low end is now the upper 30's.  A few miles away
>one
>of
>my former fellow commuters has a greenhouse about half the size of my
>conservatory which they use to culture orchids.  Their requirement is
>keeping
>the temperature at a low of about 50oF.  In both cases, on most days
you
>get
>solar assistance so you are really looking at night heating.  What they
>did
>was get a standard (probably mid-size one) hot water heater and run it
>through some baseboard heating units and their thermostat control a
>small
>circulating pump.  I know this is approaching a standard heating
>installation
>but they said they built the system themselves and that the electricity
>cost
>to operate it was not too great.  So you can sort of run the thing off
>your
>current hot water heater like I think Duane Wake is doing of get a
small
>hot
>water heater or something a little large to meet your needs.  The rest
>is
>just how much plumbing you want to do.  Has anyone built a heating
>assist
>unit like this?
>
>Dave Koran
>
>
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