u/stormcomponents

Bought brand new and I'm told I'm the first person to open it. Thermal paste and liquid metal everywhere. Worst I've ever seen. Someone has put normal compound on top of the liquid metal and then pressed it down. It's pushed liquid metal onto the motherboard, around the edges, and gave my customer terrible thermals from day one.

HP Omen 16 with a 6900HX.

Used ChatGPT to stylise a 10 year old image of my fish, then upscaled so it'd print nice and crisp at A1 size. Used my Stylus 7800 printer to print the thing - I thought the end result looked good enough to share. Sorry if this sort of thing isn't allowed here.

I've seen a lot of people's bog/drum/DIY setups on here, so I thought I'd show mine. I run 5x 154L tubs, first is full of brushes, second full of alfagrog, third is a moving bed with about 100lt of K1, the fourth is a settling tank which houses a large bag of crushed oyster shell and the first pump, this then goes up and through a 55W UV before hitting a 4-stage shower filter full of sintered glass, and finally into the fifth tub. The fifth tub is also a settlement tank, which has a protein rise running and the final pump which goes through a 37W helix UV, and ultimately back to the pond via the 90cm blade.

Water parameters are solid, although being an indoor pond without plants does mean I need to supplement it from time to time to keep pH / KH and the like in check.

Couldn't tell you quite how much this filtration setup cost. Certainly less than a drum or branded filter, but still not particularly cheap either all things considered.

The pond is still very much in the works, but getting there now.

Many of these have gone now, but I believe a couple of the ghost koi are the same ones alive and well today in my pond. I know I have at least a few over 30 years old. Not the most interesting video on the sub granted, but means the world to me to find while archiving old 8mm tapes. I lost my Dad in 2020 to cancer and these were his beloved fish. I built a pond in his memory soon after he died and moved his fish including a couple from this video into it. We have a few pictures of the pond from the 90s but I believe this is the earliest and possibly only video from back then.

"My babies!" he'd say proudly.

Hope this is the right place for this post. I simply tried to stack some images to get a clear image of the moon (or as clear as 200mm can do) but didn't have my layers aligned and accidentally made this.