https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/qhvhoxdw
## Siamese fighter Male looking after fry.

With Siamese fighter fish, it is the male's job to look after the nest and the fry when they hatched.

In the video you can see the very tiny fry and the male looking after them.

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/xqsnzccu
## Kaaimans River Bridge.

Two days ago, I wrote about Clifford's Cave, if one follow the railway line for a short distance further one gets to the old Kaaimans River Bridge. This bridge used to have a nice walkway, but these days the railings are broken, and I won't feel safe to cross this river by walking on the walkway.

It is quite beautiful here.

The see and the river meets here, on the video you can see a boat entering the river from the sea side, looks quite dangerous to me.

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/ocmazmir
## Wilderness Beach

I love it to go for early morning walks on the beach. As you can see it is very quiet on the beach, with nobody present on the photos, but as you can see there are quite a few foot prints in the sand, thus, it seems that I was rather late than early, but I was on holiday and taking it slow.

I also found this snail on the edge of the beach, he seemed quite out out of place in this environment, perhaps he was also enjoying the fresh sea breeze!!

What a nice day to start your day, with the fresh sea breeze to breath and the ocean and never ending waves right next to you.

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/vhhobvqs
## Siamese Fighter Male and Fry

In this video, you can see the Siamese Fighter Fish looking after the newly hatched fry. You will note this is a different male than in my previous posts. I had two pairs males and females that spawned. This one had more fry that hatched, but surprisingly, the other one had more that are still alive.

The fry is very small as you can see, I am feeding them the yolk of a hard boil egg, that is smashed fine and dissolved in water as well as micro worms. (Walter worms in my case)

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/uxaectwq
## Siamese Fighter Spawning.

Yesterday I wrote a post named: Siamese Fighter Bubble Nest, today I am writing about the Siamese Fighter Fish Spawning.

This is quite a process, that starts with quite a bit of aggression, before the spawning takes place.

When the fish spawn, they embrace each other, the female then releases the eggs and the male fertilise them. The eggs then drop towards the ground, the male then catches the eggs, and deposits them in the nest, where he will care for the eggs as well as the fry when they hatch.

In the photo, you can see the male tending to the eggs in the nest.

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/qvqhyzmm
## Siamese Fighter Bubble Nest

Siamese Fighter Fish, also known as Betta's are very interesting fish. The male Siamese Fighter Builds a nest consisting of hundreds of small bubbles. The video shows the male, busy with his nest.

When he is finished, the female will inspect the nest, and only then will she spawn. The male then catches the eggs, and deposit them in the nest, where he then cares for the eggs and the fry once they hatch.

Below you can see the nest from close up.

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/xhlqykbv
## 1961 VW Beetle: Start up

As some of you might remember, I recently bought myself a 1961 VW Beetle, which is a project.

Before starting it for the first time, I needed to clean the fuel supply system as the car stood for a few years. The photo above is of the inside of the fuel tank. It had a lot of rust and dirt inside it. I removed the fuel tank, and had the tank cleaned out and relined, before fitting it again.

This car originally did not have a fuel gauge and had a aftermarket fuel gauge, which is period correct, fitted. This gauge works with a float, which has a cable connected to the gauge inside the car. The mechanism was also frozen solid, with rust and dirt. I also cleaned this up before fitting the fuel tank back in place.

I also cleaned the fuel lines, before connecting everything again.

Before starting the car, I also drained the oil and replaced the oil with clean oil.

The video shows the engine running, and I must say the engine sounds great!!

I still have not taken the car for its first test drive, as the brakes are also not in a working condition, I am currently working on them.

The plan is to test drive the car, to assess the condition, before stripping the entire car before I start the restoration process.

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/ijbtmvpf
## Home Solar System

As some of you may already know, we have a huge energy crisis here in South Africa, where we have various stages of rolling power cuts. As I write this post, we are varying between stage 3 and stage 4. Stage 4 means we have 3 power cuts of 2h30 during a 24 hour period.

I decided to install a solar system to at least ensure power during the power cuts.

I installed the following:

This system will not take me off the grid, but at least, I won't suffer from power cuts. (I have this system for just over a month, and did not run out of power yet. We however have summer rains, here where I stay, and we are now going into summer. (Over the week-end, I went as low as 31% power left on the batteries!!)

I also note that my electricity bill came down by 66%, which is quite a substantial saving. Taking into account that they want to increase our electricity rate by 30%, the savings will soon become quite large!!

The photo at the top is of the inverter and batteries, before the installation was completed, it looks quite a bit neater now that it is finished.

The video shows the power flow, during a power cut, I tested the system, with the kettle on, you will see with the kettle on, the power came from the sun and the battery, when the kettle switched of the power switched to charging the battery again.

These inverters are quite smart, and one don't even notice when the power cuts take place, everything happens automatically!!

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/lrtofiuo
## Classic BMW Motorcycle to swap!!

I recently decided that I wanted to swap my classic 1981 BMW R100RT, for a more modern BMW 1200GS.

I proceeded to make a video of the bike and took a photo or 2 to advertise the bike on our local BMW group.

As I was making the video and afterwards looking at it, I realized that I actually love this bike and will not be able to part with it, even in exchange for a more modern bike, I have now decided to keep this bike.

It definitely is a keeper, what do you think!!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=rynow/nmgexkip
My brother has an old classic VW Beetle, that is giving us headaches!! The car was running fine, until he changed the generator. After putting everything back together again, the car was not running smooth.

As he had to remove the carburettor and intake manifolds to replace the generator, we thought it had to do something with the carburettor or manifolds. We replaced the packings and checked for air leaks, but still no improvement.

We then thought something could have fallen into the intake, when the manifolds were off, thus we decided to check the compression, but all 4 cylinders had compression. While at it we also reset the valve clearances and replaced the sparkplugs and spark plug leads as they were old. We checked the spark as well and all was in order. We also set the timing and we also checked for blockages in the manifold, which was also clear.

We determined that it was the right side's two cylinders that was not working, as can be seen in the video, removing the spark plug leads of these two cylinders has no effect on the running of the engine!!

Perhaps @technicalside or anybody else could give some suggestions on what the issue could be??

I hope you enjoyed the post and that you have a wonderful day.