Thanks!

Macros for me? Neato, groovy, cool!!!!










Did I just date myself?

a little, lol. but it's ok. i love the 1930's.

Nuh-uh!!! Besides, if you're going to age me, pick a more fun era with intellectual and artistic excitement. Like the 19 teens, maybe.

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!"

HBD!!!




Can't wait to see the tank with the new bulbs!!!

Nice Millay poem

Thanks, David! But hey!!!!!! Put some pants on!! My children read this thread, yanno.



I love Millay, I was born in the wrong era.

LoL ... Hey it's Homer Simpson ... what's wrong with that?

I love Millay too, have a book of all her poems.
It's well-worn.
Oddly enough, another favorite poetry book is Louis L'Amour.
Bet you didn't even know he wrote poetry, huh!

and also


HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE!!!!!

I hope it's an awesome one.
Also don't worry bout the wrinkles.
Wanna hear my take on laugh lines?
I figure it's a good thing that we've laughed enough in life to have developed krinkles from it.

Aww, thanks so much, L.

Have you read Millay's bio by Nancy Milford? Savage Beauty, I definitely recommend it.

I did know Louis L'Amour wrote poetry..but that's just the kind of nerd I am.

Absolutely! I'm thankful everytime there is an opportunity and reason to laugh. As for the grays, well, I figure I've earned 'em.

~Anne

I'm with you on the grays, lol!
I've been getting gray hair at my temples for the last 3 yrs. or so.
Luckily for me it blends into the blonde hair pretty good, you have to really look to see it.
Hubby actually got Savage Garden for me for Christmas one year, but I got about 1/3 of the way in and quit cause I got bored.
Don't hit me!
*ducks*

Hey, what's one of your favorite Millay poems?
I'll see if I can post one of mine sometime today.

LOL, I've grown to appreciate biographies. I never used to have the patience for them, but now most of my books are "hand me downs," and I have a friend who can't get enough of biographies. Sadly, I've now read every book ever written about Judy Garland.

I think I'd be hard pressed to pick one.

I do love this, something in it that speaks to me...


Chorus


Give away her gowns,
Give away her shoes;
She has no more use
For her fragrant gowns;
Take them all down,
Blue, green, blue,
Lilac, pink, blue,
From their padded hangers;
She will dance no more
In her narrow shoes;
Sweep her narrow shoes
From the closet floor.

And this one

City Trees

The trees along this city street,
Save for the traffic and the trains,
Would make a sound as thin and sweet
As trees in country lanes.

And people standing in their shade
Out of a shower, undoubtedly
Would hear such music as is made
Upon a country tree.

Oh, little leaves that are so dumb
Against the shrieking city air,
I watch you when the wind has come,—
I know what sound is there.

In honesty, though, I always appreciate her classic Ballad of the Harp Weaver. I wonder if that says something about my lack of sophistication, since it was written so early in her career.

HBBD Anne!


Sowwy I missed it.

Hope you had a great day!!

Thanks Richie!





...just placed my order in the group buy from reefcleaners!

YAY

Whee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My new bulbs are here!!!!! This was my first time ordering from Reefgeek--how cool are they?! They threw in jolly ranchers and a bumper sticker that says "Be a Geek." My son loves it, promptly stuck it to his binder.

Have to wait until hubby is home late tonight to try out the new bulbs. Flowing water + putting in and testing electrical equipment + child with seizures = two adults necessary. I'm sooooo excited, I can't wait! Can ya tell by all my exclamation points?

Neatogroovycool!

The new bulbs look amazing, and I won't talk about the part where it took two grownups and two hours to get the plastic shield off of the fixture because of salt creep. I swear it hadn't been that long since I had taken the shield off to clean inside.

Should I shorten the photoperiod to let the corals adjust to the new bulbs? Thoughts on how long?

I would shorten or use netting to adjust them . When I went from pc's to t5's on my tank I didn't do any of that and bleached my torch, hammer and frogspawn. But they were starting to bleach from lack of light with the pc's then the new brighterlight did them in

thanks, Wimby. I already had T5s, but these are better ones with richer color and more PAR.

I'll shorten the photoperiod and increase each day, I'm just looking for guidelines on where to start.

Your welcome I wish I did that when I switched lights. I thought the brighter lights would be ok and stop the bleaching from the pc's but live and learn and oh yeah Happy Birthday !!!

I'm glad you like the way they look.
Does it give you warm fuzzies?
Since you had T5's before, I don't think it would take a super huge adjustment.
What kind of bulbs did you have before, and how long did you have them?

Thanks Wimby!




Thanks Weetie! Oh yeah, warm fuzzies all around this morning. I used the order you recommended, Back to Front: Blue +, Aquablue, Blue +, Fiji Purple

I had the standard T5s that come with the Nova Extreme, and I had them for way too long. I set the tank up last November (haven't changed the bulbs since), and I'm pretty sure David had them running for a few months before that. There was at least 1 month in there where the tank wasn't set up.

Well, I just changed BibleSue's bulbs out for her too, and her bulbs were pretty old just like yours.
She's got the exact same new bulbs in the exact same order as well, btw, and loves it like you.
Anyway...
I told her to try keeping the middle 2 bulbs on for the same light period as the old ones, but to only have the 2 outer bulbs on for 2 hrs. in the middle of the cycle, and to increase the 2 hrs by 1/2 hr. every day.
Make sense?

Makes sense, but the switches on the Nova Extreme are different. The 1st and 3rd are on one switch (Fiji and Aquablue), the 2nd and 4th on the other (both Blue+). What say ye?

By the way, I couldn't resist, and just put on the two Blue+s; the one remaining head of torch doesn't look happy at all, but my rainbow monti looks fantastic!

SERIOUSLY.

Anne, PMd you.

T-5 pics ... your fans are waiting!!!!

Yanno I'm camera challenged!

C'mon down!

This photo cracks me up. Maybe I'll give up trying to get the camera figured out so you'll post it again.

TADA!!!!

New additions to the cuc arrived today! All temp acclimated and now in my tank. Ceriths, nasses, and chitons, oh my! And quite a few bonus baby snails (not sure which type) from John.

I'm very excited, because both chitons already came off of their shells and onto my rocks.

Aaaaand got two new macros, woo hoo! Shaving brush (and baby), and a mermaids fan. They're looking more than a bit pale right now, especially the shaving brushes, I hope they make it.

Dhaut's order is also in my sump, awaiting pickup. Psssst, I'm hoping he has longer arms than I do, so he can get the macro roots firmly into the sand for me. Even with the stepstool, I can't quite do it.

DHaut got the shaving brush "planted" for me. Thank you! Unfortunately, the mermaid's fan drifted into an unreachable spot. Still, it's upright and can be viewed from the side, so I'm hoping it will take root on its own.

okay...you asked for it...(literally)

I got mine today also loving those chitons. still on there shell as they have only been in the tank for 1/2 hour So by the next time I wonder to the basement they should be on the rocks Woo Hoo new pets LOL

Nate--I know, I know, I need someone to take pity on me and come to visit with a camera in hand. Trust me, if I could, I'd be posting pics, cause my new lights are puuurty, and I want to show off my new stuff!

Wimby--both of the chitons I just got came off their shells within a couple of hours; last time it took about a day.

Edited cause I posted at the same time as Weetie: HI, Weets! *waving madly*

woot!

my chiton doesnt want to come off it's shell.

but it is going back & forth

1 is off the other just chillin on it. The limpets are off maybe just 1 or 2 left on the shell.

Finally, more bad pics! Good pics will have to wait til I get a visit from a NYer with a good camera and skills.

The first couple are with the old bulbs.

Omen sleeping in the leather


Montis, old lights


NEW T5s!!!!!!!!!

FTS


Pipe Organ and Green Stick


Clam


Rics


For Comparison, Montis, new bulbs


Clowns and frogspawn, new shaving brushes.


FTS, redux


New mermaid fan, stuck behind the rocks


Unnamed pink polyps, multiplying rapidly

Torch is gone. RIP.

The last head started to go on Thursday, totally gone by this afternoon. So weird, nothing else is sick or has been effected.

free camera tips:

turn flash off, turn macro mode on (will have a flower symbol) hold camera very still & try not to zoom in on anything. pichers will be much more better!

Wouldya believe I did have macro mode on? Except for the FTSs, those I had regular. I forgot about shutting the flash, by the time I remembered, the camera was out of batteries.

Interesting about not zooming in, I haven't heard that before.

Thanks for looking, Mark!

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!

Big problem.

My tank suddenly got very cloudy. Heater went wonky, but I caught it before it spiked too high (unplugged it, jumped from 78-82 in minutes, clearly on its way up). Just did a quick test of basic params, nitrate spiked to btw 20 and 40.

Hydnophora is not looking happy, one chiton dead, six line looking a little lethargic.

I don't know why the heck this is happening. Maybe all due to the heater? The torch that died yesterday? The quickly dieing macros?

Waiting for LFS to open to get water, fresh chemipure elite, and a new filter sock.

if the temp changed that rapidly, the dieoff could have caused a bacterial bloom. Do you have any carbon you could run?

I have nothing fresh. There's chemipure in my filter, but its several months old. I'm going to run to the LFS for fresh as soon as they open.

Oddly enough, nothing that I haven't already mentioned seems to be effected, or looking worse.

hopefully you'll get lucky! get that fresh water in there and fresh chemipure!

Thanks for the good thoughts, D!