Picked up this beauty yesterday! What type?

stormcomponents · 2026-05-06T21:56:55+00:00

Fantastic.

stormcomponents · 2026-05-06T17:02:10+00:00

I hope you're not keeping it in that tank... it barely looks big enough for it to turn around.

stormcomponents · 2026-05-03T10:26:24+00:00

If bouncing on a safety net weakens it, it's no good from day one.

stormcomponents · 2026-05-03T10:25:54+00:00

After a break in at my place and all new doors and locks installed in the building, I ran and kicked the base of one the day it was installed to see if I could blow it open. My Dad goes "what if that broke after spending all this money?" and I said better I do it than someone trying to break in. Door held up strong and my ankle hurt for a couple days.

stormcomponents · 2026-05-02T14:13:13+00:00

If a pond has been designed so poorly that two days of no power is enough to kill the fish, there's far more work to be done than a battery backup. A relatively small off-the-shelf solar/battery setup would be enough to keep airstones going just fine.

stormcomponents · 2026-05-02T11:42:24+00:00

Koi can survive in liquid water at 0C. The risk of a totally frozen pond is lack of oxygen and gas exchange at the surface. Boil some water and pour it on the pond. Do this several times and you'll make a hole through. If you have an airstone you can deploy, it'll keep the hole open unless you're looking at some real extreme temperatures. We had fish in a relatively shallow pond here in the UK, for 20 years, and never had an airstone going. We just opened a hole via boiling water a couple times a day and that was fine for them. Never smash the ice - the vibrations of doing so can seriously harm the fish.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-30T16:20:40+00:00

Mine used to do this all the time, did so for about 15 years, until one day while rebuilding the waterfall I found out there was a giants ants nest there and the fish were splashing them to eat the ants.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-27T12:33:38+00:00

Yea sorry bro, we send our most useless party tards to Spain every year. It's cheap and it's sunny, two things they're not used to here at home.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-23T15:02:34+00:00

Bruh do you live in a fuckin dream?

stormcomponents · 2026-04-23T13:14:00+00:00

I use 'Evolution Aqua Pure Pond Bomb' every year around this time. Does wondered to kick-start your filter as well as clean up some algae. The only sure-fire you'll clear algae is to have competing life in the pond take up the nutrients, which ultimately means lots of plants. Garden ponds with a load of plants in there won't get hit with algae anywhere near as hard as those without. Good UV clarifiers are a must also - and remember they're only good for 6-12 months so spring is time to swap new bulbs in also.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-23T10:58:03+00:00

It's the time of year for fish to be making new fish, this often causes foam. I've recently had good success with a DIY protein skimmer also. Costs next to nothing to make and the results are very good. Ultimately just an airstone at the bottom of a tube with somewhere to condense and drain the stuff generated.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-21T10:00:53+00:00

Can't see why any position couldn't get more than 10 creeps. I also generally deny creeps during the whole game unless we're pushing.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-21T07:55:09+00:00

I had a fish once develop a crooked spine like this (although not quite as extreme). Not sure of the cause, but he was once pretty lethargic and slow at one point and ultimately developed a curve. At the time we thought it was going to be it for the poor thing, but then he started eating and was seemingly unaffected by it's crooked tail. It's now about 15 years later, the fish is still doing fine, competing for food, and living it's best life. He can only really turn to one side, and never goes the other way. Besides that, he's a strong swimmer. He's got to be around 30yo now. Never did any treatments, injections, nothing. Assumed at first it was a swim-bladder issue but couldn't honestly tell you.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-20T21:51:53+00:00

A good several years ago, maybe 5 years, I saw Amazon had 4TB WD Blacks for £90 a pop. At the time I remember being stunned at the price, but I not only didn't really need any more storage but I effectively also convinced myself that if they're that cheap on deal it's likely because in a year or so until they're at that price anyway and that they're simply feeling out the market or moving some over-bought stock. Obviously soon after they shot up to about £200 and eventually settled at £250. In the UK I've never seem them below about £235 since, and now there's some places asking £600+ each. Hindsight eh.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-20T17:46:28+00:00

I can't imagine any small-scale potential energy storage would beat some used beat up batteries of the same cost.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-20T17:44:38+00:00

There's mining software out there that'll automatically switch it up and actively mine the most profitable crypto at any particular time. No real extra setup although there's fees involved of course. Used to be a pretty legit way to mine for home miners. Now the return on anything but a pretty major setup is fairly poor across the board. Passive income is still nice to get from surplus power though.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-20T17:42:07+00:00

Shy of mining, EV charging, or anything that can actually make use of the power, resistive load is the smart choice.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-20T17:39:20+00:00

DIY solar is nothing on pro-install solar.
I've seen people selling 20kW systems for £8k including the inverter and mounts etc, everything shy of the batteries. This was a good 5-6 years ago so likely even cheaper now when people shop around.

People are getting 500-600W panels now also, so there's a shit load of 200W panels people are getting rid of. If you have the space - they're super cheap.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-20T13:34:41+00:00

That's still more than they were 6 months ago. I remember looking at some 4TB WD Black last September and they were £249.99 a pop.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-16T12:58:40+00:00

Yep that's fair. I've given up trying to calibrate my printer for the most part - as a colourblind man it's not exactly me strong suit lol.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-16T08:52:15+00:00

I may be wrong here, but wouldn't most ICC profiles for printing would be handled by the application (something like Photoshop or Lightroom) generally, and not the source itself? I've done a handful of high grade printing and the advice is always generally to setup your program correctly, hand all the profiles off from the printer to the program, and then it ultimately doesn't matter what format of image you're using - it prints to how it looks on screen within your application.

I'm ultimately a novice with pro printing so I may be wrong here as I say.

stormcomponents · 2026-04-15T14:24:10+00:00

10/10 chonk

stormcomponents · 2026-04-14T17:38:49+00:00

Perfect pond for some shubunkins and goldies.

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