All my friends threads get bumped so darnit I bumped my own.

5 pages! Woot!

It's bedtime now.

when are you coming over,dude.i got some frags laying around!!!

Makoy! I feel like we haven't talked in forever. Dude, I need to come over soon. I still want to get you guys over for a beer sometime soon.

yay! 5pages!

So, you better be on your way over to m'akoys place by now, mirite??

someone said BEER??u got to have a kig if me and dave come over,lol.
i have some pearlberry frag laying around,if you're up for it!

inorite? i would if I didn't have to get up early and commute out to Iselin, NJ tomorrow

hell yeah pearlberry! when are you free next week? this week i won't be getting back to the city until late every night.

alright, for real yo, i'm going to bed. the alarm is going off early tomorrow and i'm going to hate life.

next week i'll be working 8-4.whenever your free to come check the tank.frag is not going anywhere.

Makoy, I'll pm you next week. I can usually get off at 4 or 5 ans be at your place in no time.

Too late ... my frag ... sucka!

Noooooooo

So you on your Iphone? I really want one ... only thing is I break all of my cell phones ... lol ... Maybe a Christmas gift ... hmmmmmm ... since the tank is so gosh darn full ... (I can't believe I just said gosh darn and I am from NYC ... what the hell is wrong with me? lol)

Afraid Weets was gonna whack you with the ban stick................oh wait! Weets isn't a mod, you're safe!!!

LoL ... wooohooo ... I live to see another day on N-R

lul...NJ sucks.

Yes it does ... no offense ...

LOL, ya went to ISELIN for chrisssakes!!

Don't be hatin', ya know ya love it here.

haha! feel the burn, richie!!!!

Hey R, think they want to hear that description of Jersey I shared with you last week?

Yes, I still do.

I need to be more careful on the beach.

you need to tell me where you live, so i can come & buy your pump

Sure, the NY gang would get a kick out of that too.

im sure i would!

something stinky about that state slightly west of ny.

got my new nimble nano! that makes 2 i own now

thats cuz the winds flow east to west


YAY!!!

cool toys right?

NYC does smell like da funk sometimes, for sure.

and yeah, they're cool toys

nah, that is from joisey.


I love mine. Lost count how many I have. Couple nimble nanos and a couple supers methinks.

How is greta??

She's doing just fine

I have two supers. My only complaint is that they sink when they come undone (which happens often because I'm too careless and I hit rocks). I know it defeats the purpose of it being small if it floats though. So who knows.

Yup. That they do. I keep a small cleaning brush near each tank, ya know the ones with the twisted metal core?
Well, just a dunk and the nimble quickly attaches for the ride back out.

Great to hear Greta has settled into her new home. Hopefully she will have siblings soon.

Sooner than you might think

nom nom nom


NOM


FTS


fuzzy rocks


some hitchhiker halimeda

Happy, hungry nem.

Nice shots D !

Did you get that pink fuzzy algae in your contest tank?

Someone help with this mystery:

Recent test results:

Sal: 1.025
Alk: 8
Calc: 480
Mg: 1380
pH: 8.3
PO4: 0
Nitrate: 0
Temp: 79-80 pretty steady

Why are my monti caps browning out? The above results have been pretty consistent over the past couple weeks.

I just added 7.5ml alk and i'm adding 30ml Mg over the next few hours to try to get those levels up to 9 and 1400.

I don't get it.

Hmm, that is weird.
I'm not sure.
Has the flow changed?

Nope. The acros and milli are doing alright - starting to encrust the rocks. That one acro is even growing tissue over where it bleached from before.

I thought monti caps were supposed to be beginner sps, lol.

I was going to come up with something clever ... but the air in CT just wiped it right out of me ... at home ... with no tank in CT ... how ... interesting ... ALTHOUGH ... I should give RC March's ToTM winner Reefbum a call and go check out his tank!!! Oh ... that's something to do ... I can actually hear my thoughts it's so damn quiet ... shoot me!

CT, lol. Get yo ass back down here.

oh, and one Monti is low in the tank and the other is at the top. Both are not gaining color.

moar pix

Everything looks grrrrrrrrrrreat!!!
Especially like this shot;

that one was alright...it needs some bigger SPS, lol. Gotta get those guys to grow more.

Sorry buddy, just saw this now. Firefox must be having troubles lately......

any who-

Yes I did get that fuzz. Really just seemed to die off and or be cleared by the CUC. Never got out of hand tho.

Sorry I cannot help with the monti as they are just another so called "easy" coral that simply will not grow for me. Add them to Zoas and Xenia.

Yeah but the scape is what really impressed me.

Thanks - yeah, the rock wall turned out really well. I just hope it's not leaching anything into my tank that will kill stuff.

How is your Ph, always interested in that with these types of DIY things.

it's been steady at 8.3 for the past 3 or so weeks.

i guess...that's the closest I can figure with the API test kit.

D,
Don't know if this helps, but my green monti cap browned when I moved it to the new 40 and the T5HO lighting (it was under PCs). It is just now starting to regain it's green color and start to grow again after ~2 months. I think that if you are not seeing any tissue recession I would just let it be and see what happens. HTH.

BTW, like the new pimpin' avatar.

-Prof

did you soak the rock wall for a week or so before adding it to the tank? this is a common practice from what i understand.

Okay, so I was a little slow on this one.
Sorry, it's been one of those weeks.
To make up for it, I'm actually gonna give you TWO fun Jersey descriptions.
Both are quotes from Janet Evanovich, who I've been reading non-stop this week.
She's such a trip.

"Fancy pants wimps in L.A. rated their pollution and curtailed activity. In Jersey we just call it air and get on with life. If you're born in Jersey, you know how to rise to a challenge. Bring on the Mob. Bring on bad air. Bring on taxes and obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and macaroni at every meal. Nothing defeats us in Jersey. "

"At mid-morning the Garden State was heating up. Pavement was steaming under a cloudless sky, petrochemical plants were spewing to the north, and cars were emitting hydrocarbons statewide. By mid-afternoon I'd feel the toxic stew catch in the back of my throat, and I'd know it was truly summer in Jersey. For me, the stew is part of the Jersey experience. The stew has attitude. And it enhances the pull of Point Pleasant. How can you completely appreciate the Jersey shore if the air is safe to breathe in the interior parts of the state?"

Hope you got at least a little smirkle out of that.

lol...i smirkled.

Prof - thanks. that's the plan right now.

asting - it didn't soak for a week, but the tank went about 4 months before I put anything in it. I was doing water changes and all. when I moved apartments, i pretty much did a 100% water change, so i doubt anything that would have initially leached is still in the tank.

3,000!!!!!

And in honor of my awesome post count, a new coral!

BibleSue pavona (yeah, it just got put in the tank so there's no polyp extension yet):