Thanks. My eyes dont hurt so bad right now but they are still jacked up. It like I stared at teh sun for 5hours straight and the effects never wore off. Its hard to even see this screen. I had a buddy of mine make the sig for me but the link to the thread doesnt work. Hopefully he gets it straightened out. I like the way it looks.

hey how are you doing?

Not so good. Vision is still really bad...its like being in a whiteout on a really sunny day. My Male scooter died....the seahare burried itself in the sand right on top of him. I found him over a inch deap in his usual spot later the next day when i noticed him missing. Spinal tap in the morning. They got no idea whats wrong with me.

aww man that really sucks

i really hope things get better

hey hope you feel better! I wouldn't be able to handle a spinal tap, don't like needles in the first place, and in my back..no no.

Hopefully it isn't any kind of meningitis

Finally got a diagnosis. They diagnosed me with the same thing google told me it was a week earler. Bilateral optic neuritis. Yay....Steroid injections every day for the rest of the week. Vicodin like it was going out of style and hopefully this isnt a sign of the onset of MS.

Actualy its just like the one you have in your pictures in your post the store owner said he can get them to grab the most colourful for an extra $10 each

just wondering if the one in your avatar is photoshopped or has a dark blue pattern instead of the bright fluorescent blue?

I have a female that has dark blue shades under 8-t5's h.o on the blue side and was thinking of trading her in and paying a few extra buck's for a pair since I'll be getting a seond one soon

the lfs doesn't get many in to pick from but says he can make a call and a request from his whole saler that has large selection I just can't remember if he said he can get one with more blue or brighter blue


thanks

no I dont alter my pics. At most maybe I darkened it alittle. but those are his true colors. He has darkened up alittle as he gets fatter. He is more of a dark blue with green paterns.

I see my female is extremely dark blue I'll ask for the male first then switch the female if there is a difference

I still regret no purchasing the most beautifull female I ever seen. She had a all yellow face with a blue diamond on her nose and yellow fins. I really wish I would of bought her but I didnt want to seperate my spawning pair.

Damn steroids are making me extremly irritable with a very short fuse. I keep snapping for no damn reason.

Oh no its bilateral!!!!

Atleast you dont have multi directional instability...I worked with a kid this summer who had it....not a fun thing.

Oh and you should lift some weights

How do you have your fuge set up? any pics? I have the cf version of that tank and I would like to see your set up.

You can see in picture one the general set up. I have a small pump in the rear chambers tightly crammed underneath the media basket. The line on the right runs up to a manual ball valve, checkvalve then up to the fuge.
The inlet of the fuge is on the right. There is a 6" threaded nipple with a endcap threaded into the bulkhead. There are holes drilled into the bottom of the nipple directing the flow downward and through the baffles. it is obvious where the main fuge area. Then in the upper left is the return baffle with a small overflow box built around it. Water is gravity fed back down to the main tank via one of the rear chaimbers.



Hope this makes sense.

very nice. my LFS just got 3 beautiful mandarins, each about 3 inches long, 1 male and 2 females.

Lol @ some interesting fish behaivor. As I have noticed the past day or so my Green Mandarins have been ramping up for a spawn. This evening while my wife and I where watching a movie I looked over to my fry / quarantine tank and seen my exiled Spotted Mandarin and Female ocellaris "pairing" up. It was pretty comical to watch. The Male spotted keeps trying to cohearse the clown into rising with him. Both fish are in exile for being way too aggressive toward my other fish. Even my wife thought it was pretty funny.

Just collected a Mandarin spawn. Sucks because I wont get a rotifer culture until saturday.

I'm glad your feeling better honey buns.

yay got the kreisel rockin again!

Like clock work I collected another spawn at 9:40pm 8/28/09 This was a pretty nice one. Not as big as I was hopping but decent none the less. Im irritated because I was planning on trying to film it and they ended up doing it behind the rockwork. I didnt even knw until I saw my bangaii going nuts eating the eggs.

Collected what I would say is one of my largest spawns today at 9:39 on 8/29/09 This makes 4 days in a row.

pics!!! congrats!!

I tried to get a pic of all the eggs with my wifes point and shoot but it couldnt pick them up. I need to get my canon fixed.

that sucks... oh well. post pics when the camera is fixed

good luck!

8-30-09 9:43pm collected another mandarin spawn.

Just realized this is in the wrong spot. Could a admin move this to members tanks please?

PM lani with a link to your thread she will

I bet you 5 bucks I get another spawn tonight between 9:35-9:50 pm.

Damn it, Looks like I owe you 5 bucks for gettign cocky.

I had a dream last night that Mantis shrimp had taken over my tank. There we 8 of them and they where all vicious and trying to attack me while I was trying to save the fish..talk about stressfull.

I decided to ditch my traditional Kreisel design and go the BRT route. I couldnt find any decent designs anywhere so I had to use my imagination. Hopefully it works ok. I allready had one incident where the screen on the overflow clogged and cause it to overflow spilling a gallon or so on the floor. I had to drill a hole about 1" above the normal water level as a emergency overflow. I also moved my RO unit to the garage instead of under the sink. I still need to set up a holding tank for it but that will have to wait until friday when I can order a float valve. I have new filters in special thanks to one of the coolest peeps in the world and its slowly dripping into a bucket for now. Heres a few pics.





Once I get some water made I will ditch the bucket and use the plastic tub so I can get a aditional 10-20gal of volume.

More garage pics

Rotifer cultures.


RO

Looks awesome. I want captive bred Mandarins! ... Bad!! Anyways, how are you feeling? The stuff with your eye clear up?

I can see again thanks, My eyes still hurt but it will take a few months for the damage done to heal. I meet with my Neurologist next tuesday to go over my MRI results....hopefully the mass he had seen was just a lil tumor or something and can be hacked out.

Another Mandarin spawn today on 09/02/09. I took a few videos with my wifes canon powershot.

Eggs floating in plastic bottle waiting 3 days prior to release into BRT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX7zFx4vqsw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r49HLKxX5x4

Heres the container floating in the BRT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPfUMh4jj5E

I also had a Hermit crab larvae. I tossed them into a 2liter bottle with a airline...Its not worth setting up a kreisel and all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHlz-7VfWc

I put a heater in my rot culture to try and speed up reproduction. I set it to 75 and went to bed. I woke up this morning and it was 121 degrees. OOPS! I doubt it hurt anything concidering the culture never took off in the first place but still, Kind of funny.

Stopped by my LFS today to pick up a bluespot, they had one. I wasnt too impressed with it. Its colors where on the darkside. They said it was spoken for. They are ordering a few more that are scheduled to come in Wed. Ill pick one up then and maybe a few other things. They had a 10" deresa it was massive but bland brown colors. I ordered a typhoon III RO unit and im getting ready to order a microscope. Tomorrow im ordering a bunch of stuff from www.seahorsesource.com

Heres a few pointless youtubes of my junk

phyto cultures and rots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iow6GkuhlYs

Giant spagetti worm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n516K_H9SWI

I want!!! http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemD...&ddid=69294 Holy rediculous price tag though.

yeah they are so cool

They had a pair last week.

I dont think I could ever spend that much on a fish unless it was guaranteed immortal and pood gold. I would drop $100 on it probably though.

Just ordered the celestron microscope along with a 12pack of well slides and a 74pack of flat slides.

Anyone got a tang I can borrow for a photoshoot? I want to take some pics of it swimming with my Mandarins in my nano and stir up some #### over on RC.

LMAO

Just picked up a Male RSB and a flasher wrasse pics when I get home (driving)

Yay my microscope is here too! Heres a few crummy teaser shots.

Yay my newest addition finally came out of hiding.