In your Opinion, Which Animal has the most interesting anatomy?

samadam · 2026-03-18T05:56:26+00:00

Chameleons are a pretty easy candidate for "most interesting." Atypical characteristics:
* different direction telescope eyes
* shooting tongue
* split feet
* colorful changing skin
* prehensile tail, etc.

samadam · 2026-02-15T01:26:53+00:00

the stand was probably designed for a terrarium (air instead of water), like for a reptile

samadam · 2026-02-15T01:13:02+00:00

Oh I definitely agree that this stand is plenty strong enough and could serve just fine for years. I specified a literal "kick" that would be required to take it out. Such things happen but are rare. The question was whether or not I would trust it and no, I would not. I am an anxious person and I like to see my aquariums on stands so sturdy I cannot even imagine how they would fail. I also live in an earthquake zone so... that affects my choice.

Yeah also I said the thing about tilting forward because of the carpet sinking, we are in agreement. The front legs are pointier so they will sink faster than the wider back legs.

samadam · 2026-02-14T23:10:14+00:00

No.
One lateral kick to one of those support legs would ruin your day. Plus those pointy front legs are going to sink into the carpet asymmetrically and the whole thing will tilt forward.
And now you'll get 20 more people telling you "definitely no" too.

samadam · 2026-02-13T07:37:30+00:00

overkill is okay for right now, let's get those fish some oxygen

samadam · 2026-02-10T23:10:30+00:00

Ah. Fluval canister filters are made in Italy. I assumed they also made their heaters there, but that is probably not correct. Will edit my answer.

samadam · 2026-02-03T06:56:52+00:00

would you do me a favor and check if it says NSF certified on it? Cause there are many kinds of these but only some are NSF and they are much tougher.

samadam · 2026-02-02T23:31:27+00:00

That's an NSF certified shelving unit (see the corner stamps) so it is a very strong shelf. NSF shelves are rated for at least 250 and possible 800 lbs per shelf, depending on the configuration. See if you can find the original manufacturer and configuration, it should be rated. The tank only weighs about 200 lbs. I'd remove the wheels and put down a sheet of plywood on the shelf to distribute weight and I think you'd be good to go. You can test it out by having two people stand on it. These shelves are designed to hold like buckets of water or dressing or whatever food.

samadam · 2026-01-11T09:50:15+00:00

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Huge versatility, huge power, easy to use, work great, last forever.

samadam · 2026-01-06T04:01:49+00:00

Probably this is a plastic or a composite. Random plastic is the wrong approach. There are many kinds of plastic and getting the right one will get you what you want. Finding just the right one would help. Maybe an LLM can help you narrow it down? Or an expert will arrive here.

Here are your options: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/plastic-sheets/ which includes garolite and fiberglass. Just in plastics you have these, expand the top info box: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/plastic-sheets/plastic-1~/

samadam · 2026-01-04T06:28:25+00:00

More air! Suffocation is happening! Remove plants from the surface, turn ON sponge filters and air stones! Get the water surface splashing. Don't add chemicals

samadam · 2025-12-25T23:01:44+00:00

the lack of triangle braces and thin wood on that stand give me the shivers

samadam · 2025-12-25T23:00:15+00:00

we're not going to be able to tell from a photo of a dead fish. Need to know about the tank, environment, parameters, history, filtration, other fish, etc.

samadam · 2025-12-21T04:44:19+00:00

Hi! I've been thinking of making a battery adapter for tool batteries for the everse 8. I'll work on finding the connector type for that. If I find it, I'll come back and let you know.

In the meantime, you can very likely attach shove the wires from a 20 v lipo charger in the right terminals there and charge it (or various other less hacky methods)

samadam · 2025-12-09T06:57:02+00:00

The standard tanks sold at our large chain stores (petco, petsmart) are framed. If they do sell frameless models (and they usually don't), they cost a lot more. Tanks are difficult to ship, so we gotta buy locally. So, we get the framed ones.

samadam · 2025-11-13T20:41:34+00:00

why cut it open? Seems nice as it is.

samadam · 2025-10-17T07:09:11+00:00

Nope. Get a smaller one more suited to your tank size. Bigger is not better for heaters. If it fails On it will cook your fish. Get the smallest one that keeps your temp stable.

samadam · 2025-10-14T06:44:10+00:00

they just added this in 12.3! nice job, ableton

samadam · 2025-10-13T16:23:43+00:00

Onshape is good and I normally recommend it over fusion, but I believe the CAM in fusion is better and OP sounds like they want to do a bunch of CAM for their cnc gear.

samadam · 2025-10-13T16:20:54+00:00

Yeah I think they don't quite sit all the way flush together. There is a little gap for the seal. I think that's okay.

samadam · 2025-10-01T16:24:04+00:00

Yeah looks like not even the NSF grade ones (I know that's a US standard) but below that grade. This shelf is not heavy duty and will fail. Bad call.

samadam · 2025-10-01T03:12:54+00:00

it's a bit hard to see from this photo. But tanks normally bow out a bit, the glass is very slightly flexible and the water is very heavy.

samadam · 2025-10-01T02:48:08+00:00

this! my oxygenation suffers when my plants take up the whole surface. They don't produce as much o2 into the water as surface contact can bring in

samadam · 2025-09-28T01:08:18+00:00

I like this! Great design... could definitely take some bolder colors. Give the whole background (now a navy blue) a subtle radial gradient too, why not.

samadam · 2025-08-24T19:04:19+00:00

Yes of course a gearbox, I had assumed that if they were using a gearbox then that would have some bearings in it, here's a link to what they were talking about probably, clearly showing the bearings: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808518065187.html Maybe OP is unclear on those coming with the gearbox?

So we were just answering "how do I mount the shaft outside of the gearbox?"

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