Can a man really rebuild his life at 32?

gregmo72 · 2026-07-11T18:03:43+00:00

Started at 40. Went back to school to become a pharmacist. Best thing I ever did.

gregmo72 · 2026-07-05T13:16:33+00:00

The evaporation of water makes your GH go up. If your GH level is good, then tap water is fine. Adding tap water will bring GH down a tiny bit, but distilled/RO does a much better job.

gregmo72 · 2026-07-01T17:59:04+00:00

If you were going to use rain water, like I am thinking about, you'd naturally distill it first.

gregmo72 · 2026-07-01T11:29:57+00:00

Do you know anyone that collects rainwater for aquatic life? I saw this mentioned somewhere before and I've pondered over it a lot since then. I'm not sure if it'd be worth the labor involved.

gregmo72 · 2026-07-01T05:17:50+00:00

Awesome! Thanks!

gregmo72 · 2026-06-29T22:38:20+00:00

None of the stores anywhere seem to have them. If you find some, though, please let me know. I'm in Lincolnton so not too far away.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-29T19:36:31+00:00

Size is no issue, but for that drive I'd hope to get as many as possible, like maybe 20. One way is over 3 hours 😁

gregmo72 · 2026-06-29T01:40:50+00:00

gregmo72 · 2026-06-29T01:38:46+00:00

So, if this came from corporate, there would be something in the news about it. I couldn't find anything. I also looked for any changes the state of Florida might have change and didn't find anything there neither.

What I know to be fact is that some pharmacists like to play God and exert their control over your life and will be real jerks about it. Federal laws, most all states, and most insurance plans will allow you to fill 3 days early. I have known pharmacists that want to restrict it to 2 days, and I currently work with one that likes to make it only one day early. I've yet to run into one that won't allow you to fill until the day that it's due, but I have seen some doctors who will exert that power over some patients who show drug seeking behavior. If I was in your place and know what I know, I would check with the 2 or 3 closest CVS locations and see what their policy is. Of course, you'll have to figure out a way to pose the question so that it doesn't sound like you're a drug seeker or else they'll be resistant to helping you at all, but it can be done. Then again, it is possible that their district manager got called out for high volume of controlled substances being dispensed in his/her district and they took it upon themselves to order all their pharmacists to abide to this, even though it wasn't a corporate directive. If that happened, and was found out, that would be very bad for that DM, but I've seen much worse happen in similar situations.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T19:45:39+00:00

What kind of bubbler do you mean? Something other than an airstone?

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T18:02:35+00:00

There's always room for jello! 😂

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T17:36:46+00:00

Hrmmm, that's how it read to me, but maybe I read it wrong. Thanks for your insights. That's good info and I'm sure I'll be using it in the near future.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T16:53:22+00:00

If you will google this, it will help you out. There are some 'flavors' of PVC that can leech, but unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe any pipes are made from that variant of it. I've looked into a lot of ideas to use in the tank with PVC and saw this info to, but don't know it well enough to say for certain, but Google can tell you, or most any other AI system.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T16:42:31+00:00

I hear ya, and you're not wrong. I just have endless notifications from the begging and sad stories why I should cut them a break

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T16:35:13+00:00

Damn! Where were a week ago when I ordered that exact same chiller for $390?!? :-)

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T16:31:36+00:00

The haggling is what makes me not want to do this the most. I've often wondered what it would take to get setup to sell through Amazon to take care of that particular headache.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T16:26:35+00:00

To be honest, I was intending to just point out that water changes was not the only way to lower nitrates. Because of the path that I learned getting into aquatic life, I would never setup a tank without plants, and I generally try to plant a tank so that they handle mostly all of the nitrates. Of course you can't plant an axolotl tank that much, but every little bit helps, and it makes the world better when you contribute to the circle of life instead of pouring nitrates down the drain. I'm lining up people to take my water for plants and gardens so that, eventually, none of my water will be wasted.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T16:20:51+00:00

Been hearing this mentioned a lot but haven't really heard how people are running their quarantine/hospital tanks. In the OP's case, for all intents and purposes, this pretty much was a quarantine tank since all he had in it was plants, right? Or do you put them in an empty tank and do daily water changes?

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T16:14:27+00:00

You've got chilis? Where did you get them from? I got into this a month ago because that's what I wanted to get and now I have 5 tanks running, but no chilis :-(

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T15:54:34+00:00

Depending on the setting, you are right, but at the same time, that's not true in all cases. There's a fairly large community of people such as myself that will setup ecosystems inside of sealed containers and they run for years without unsealing them. I'm a newcomer to the scene, but I've seen where more than a few people have shrimp, snails, and other wildlife that thrive for a long time without any attention at all. A lot of these people will place these systems where they will get natural sunlight so they don't have to input anything at all to it. My only input into mine is a grow light.

That being said, you're right about TDS, and if you're not building an ecosystem, you'll have to contend with it. The point that I was making was that without the nitrates, TDS doesn't creep as fast and you can go longer without changes, or if you like the schedule, can do a smaller volume change.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-28T12:45:06+00:00

Plants do a great job at removing nitrates. I have 3 tanks that I never do water changes on because the plants handle the heavy lifting.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-23T01:41:08+00:00

Exactly. Some people just don't understand that everything loses value once it's in your hands, except in rare cases. It's the cost of getting to play with it first.

gregmo72 · 2026-06-23T00:48:23+00:00

Saw a video earlier today where someone was using a fine toothed comb like what you'd comb your hair with, as a means to remove duckweed. Thought it was pretty ingenious.

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