I’ve never successfully made a budget before, and I really need one. I make plenty of money, but I over spend a lot and don’t keep good enough track of my bills.
My father keeps asking me if I’d like help making a spreadsheet for my budget, but I’ve been thinking about using Intuit QuickBooks. I know it isn’t a free product, but I want to try it out and see if I like it. I can have it automatically connect to my banks to download my transactions, and then create a budget for me.
From there, I can fine tune the budget, and track my bills better.
Have you set up a budget? Did you stick with it? How did you set it up? Did you use something like QuickBooks? Leave me a comment.
Popularity: 6% [?]
It’s February 2, 2010. Wow, the last 3 years have flown right by for me. I’ve been neglecting my 26 gallon aquarium the last few weeks. I need to do some major maintenance on it this week. My goal for this month is to keep up on my aquarium maintenance. The top is overgrown with Duckweed, and my Cabomba furcata is also growing wild. I need to do a big trim. Hopefully, by the end of the week, I’ll post a video on YouTube of my maintenance routine. Stay tuned! =)
Popularity: 6% [?]
Fissidens fontanus from Aqua Botanic
I’m planning on making a tree/bush using Fissidens fontanus for my 26 gallon aquarium. I’m still researching on ways to do this, and also the best ways to trim to keep the tree/bush look. I think this will look really good in my aquarium, once I’m able to replace the substrate and work a new aqua-scape. I think it will look really good sitting close to my Cabomba furcata. My new aqua-scape will be kind of a hill scape, with driftwood. Of course I’ll have a ton of other plants in there, along with cryptocoryne parva, cryptocoryne wendtii, anubias minima, vallisneria nana, hygrophila corymbosa kompact, christmas moss, and peacock moss. I might also try dwarf hairgrass again. I’ll keep you updated once I start playing with the fissidens fontanus.
Do you have experience with Fissidens fontanus? Leave a comment!
Popularity: 37% [?]
About 8 months back, I purchased the Electronic CO2 Regulator from AquariumPlants.com. Instead of using a needle valve, this regulator uses an electronic valve that opens and closes in fractions of a second. You can adjust the bubbles per second, and the size of the bubbles. It’s accurate from 4 bubbles per second all the way to 1 bubble every 10 seconds. Since there’s no solenoid in this regulator, you won’t have to replace one when it overheats and fails (which is what happened to my old regulator). There’s a build in check valve, though I use two of my own (can’t be too careful), and you don’t need a bubble counter, as it has an LED that flashes to indicate bubbles.
This regulator can be used by itself, or with a pH controller. I have mine on a timer instead of a pH controller. AquariumPlants.com also has this regulator with an optional LCD 8 digit resettable counter instead of the LED. The digital counter also has a backup battery, so it won’t lose its count. They also recently started offering the counter by itself, so you can use your own regulator.
Overall, I’m very happy with this regulator. It’s super easy to setup and use. You can see how I have mine set up here. I plan on getting another one of these regulators in the future, when I get a large aquarium.
Popularity: 55% [?]
