From Home Brewer to Aquarist

[techman81]

For many years, my primary hobby was home brewing. Now that I've taken up aquarium keeping and aquascaping, I find the similarities between the two interesting.
1) Equipment: The use of CO2 and Inkbird temp controllers.
2) Chemistry: Understanding water parameters. Controlling PH. Remineralizing RO water.
3) Engineering/Technical: Using high tech equipment to make things easier or provide better results, Tinkering and building things; in home brewing I built my own electric brewing systems and with aquariums, I'm now building stands and reading about building CO2 reactors.

Any other home brewers here? What other hobbies do you have with things in common?

 

[Art]

That's interesting. I think you'll fit right in with the planted aquarium hobby.

I'm not a home brewer but I do like gadgets. That's been the consistent theme for me. Photography, computers, etc.

 

[Phish Tank]

I love it when hobbies have crossover points.
Ceramics: some glaze ingredients can be used in remineralizing/ferts. I’ve also attempted to make ceramic hardscape bits (nothing I’ve wanted to use yet), and have contemplated firing my own high CEC substrate in my kiln.
Fused glass: I was able to cut a 10 inch circle of glass to cover my snail bowl.

 

[techman81]

I love it when hobbies have crossover points.
Ceramics: some glaze ingredients can be used in remineralizing/ferts. I’ve also attempted to make ceramic hardscape bits (nothing I’ve wanted to use yet), and have contemplated firing my own high CEC substrate in my kiln.
Fused glass: I was able to cut a 10 inch circle of glass to cover my snail bowl.

Kiln firing your own substrate sounds pretty cool. Aquasoil is freakin expensive.

 

[Pepere]

For many years, my primary hobby was home brewing. Now that I've taken up aquarium keeping and aquascaping, I find the similarities between the two interesting.
1) Equipment: The use of CO2

You can brew and pipe the resulting co2 into the tanks in essence double dipping!

 

[techman81]

You can brew and pipe the resulting co2 into the tanks in essence double dipping!

The aquascaping has taken the place of the home brewing. Brewing was getting to be too hard of work for this aging body not to mention, I don't drink much these days, so most of what I was brewing was just being given away.

 

[Phish Tank]

Kiln firing your own substrate sounds pretty cool. Aquasoil is freakin expensive.

Clay ain’t cheap either, plus the manual labor of taking a 25 lb bag of clay and making pellets out of it. I’ve made my own pie weights from clay, and even that was tedious

 

[techman81]

Clay ain’t cheap either, plus the manual labor of taking a 25 lb bag of clay and making pellets out of it. I’ve made my own pie weights from clay, and even that was tedious

Yeah hadn't thought about how intensive making those pellets would be. The big suppliers, no doubt, have conveyor belt machines shooting out millions of pellets in minutes.

 

[Mr.Shenanagins]

Orrrrrrrrrrr….grab a bag of top soil, mineralize it, and cap it for a cheap and rich substrate

 

[Sb1415]

Espresso - another use for the RO water when i set it up.

 

[gnatster]

Final rinse when cleaning records - another use for RO water.