gnatster Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 Welp.... The Reef Cleaners order is way to much stuff. I'm having to feed this group a few times a day. Doing every other day water changes too. Went to a local reef club meeting today. Was given to the bright idea of selling or trading some locally. Posted on the local club site to come and get some. The meeting was at Reef Systems Coral Farms, not more than 20 min from home. Pretty cool place. I can see going out there fairly often to look around and maybe pick something up, it's a fun little drive. While there I picked up a few Ricorodia and Zoa's. Not a lot by any means want to test the waters so to speak. Once they all open fully I'll break out the camera. Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Have you thought about maybe seeing if a lfs with take them and possible give you a small store credit ? I know when I had to move ( out of state ) that's where I took majority of my livestock and they offered cash and or store credit,cash was of course a lot lower than what they gave me in store credit. Link to comment
gnatster Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 A pics of the Zoa's recently added. They were not labeled with any of the common names I see when looking around. Link to comment
gnatster Posted April 6, 2014 Author Share Posted April 6, 2014 Picked up a Porcelain Crab and Red Head Goby today. The Goby is hard to photograph, I'll get him though. Link to comment
gnatster Posted April 10, 2014 Author Share Posted April 10, 2014 Dang, looks like I brought in an aptasia. Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Get a seasoning needle and inject his behind with some peroxide !!! Your Zoa's look amazing though man !! How's te tank doing ? Link to comment
gnatster Posted April 10, 2014 Author Share Posted April 10, 2014 Tank is doing very well thanks. Going real slow here to give time for everything to settle in nicely. The one pictured is the small one. I found a larger one deep in a crevice of a rock first, then I went hunting and found that one in the Zoa's. The other bigger one had to come from that Zoa rock I figure. If there are two there are bound to me more that I can't see or or just to small yet. I've ordered 4 Berghia for delivery tomorrow. The place has some good looking Rasta Zoa's too so they are coming as well. The one thing I have yet to do is figure out how to take a full tank shot and not have artifacts from the the LED frequency. Link to comment
gnatster Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 Finally was able to get a decent shot of the Red Head Goby. Link to comment
DaveFason Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Shot you an email. Hit me up! Tank is looking great. -Dave Link to comment
gnatster Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 A lot has happened since I last wrote. Went on vacation in the Smokey Mountains for a week or so. Came home, next had a heart attack. Spent a week in the hospital getting stabilized enough for a triple bypass. Now finally back home recuperating from all this fun. Tank is going on 4 weeks with no water change. Egads. I know it needs one bad cause I'm sure my friends I'm sure are over feeding Stay tuned for updates, not real soon though. Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Oh damn man,you've had a rough few weeks then. Hopefully you're healing well. Just take it easy man,that sh*ts nothing to mess with. Keep us updated man !!! Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I work near where Gnatster lives, so I dropped by his place after work today to do some tank maintenance for him. Considering what Gnatster and the tank have gone through in the past month, both were looking better than I expected. Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I work near where Gnatster lives, so I dropped by his place after work today to do some tank maintenance for him. Considering what Gnatster and the tank have gone through in the past month, both were looking better than I expected. Now that's awesome to hear. It's nice to see what type of good/tight community we have here at NR. Granted,we do have some not so nice people,but it's people like Mirya that make me glad to be a part of this forum !!! How's he doing btw,I hope good ? Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 He's doing as well as you can after a triple bypass. Tired, and I'm sure his chest still hurts! The tank had yellowed water and some green slime algae, but no GHA or other nasty nuisance algae. Once I cleaned the glass and changed the water, it was glowing. It took me less than 30 min to mix up the saltwater, siphon out the old water, pump in the new water, and clean the glass. Gnatster's brother was over cooking him dinner and was surprised at how quick the tank maintenance was. Gnatster told him there are advantages to having a pico aquarium! Link to comment
Reefkid88 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 He's doing as well as you can after a triple bypass. Tired, and I'm sure his chest still hurts! The tank had yellowed water and some green slime algae, but no GHA or other nasty nuisance algae. Once I cleaned the glass and changed the water, it was glowing. It took me less than 30 min to mix up the saltwater, siphon out the old water, pump in the new water, and clean the glass. Gnatster's brother was over cooking him dinner and was surprised at how quick the tank maintenance was. Gnatster told him there are advantages to having a pico aquarium! That's good man. I'm glad to hear that,my uncle actually just went thru the same procedure,had to go back to the hospital because he some how busted open his incension for his heart surgery. I'm glad to hear Gnatster is taking it easy,and hopefully has super speedy recovery and stays healthy. It's always a long process. I'm also glad to hear the tank wasn't in too bad of shape though,that's always good. Link to comment
gabe3eb Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Hope you are feeling better Gnatster. Love the tank and looking forward to updates when you get around to it . I wish I could give a "Super Like" or reddit Gold or something to Mirya. Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Awe, just trying to help out a fellow reefer! It's neat to actually have someone from an online forum live nearby. Link to comment
Mirya Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 I don't want to derail Gnatster's thread... so I'll start off with something for Gnatster. I got something for your tank. Crazy Memorial Day live sale and I couldn't help myself! I figure it'll be a little while before you can head over to Phishy or Reef Systems anyways. I leave town for a business trip next week Tuesday, when would be good for me to drop by before then? I can also do another water change for you then. For the semi-derailment, I want to say thank you to the donor of my Premium Membership. As I told Chris, it left me speechless. I figure who wouldn't go help out another reefer with something as simple as a water change, I don't think I did anything special. But anyways, in thanks to the nifty person who donated my membership, I made you cookies: Link to comment
badfish816 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 great build. sorry to hear about the heart problems. one thing that is bugging my OCD is the light looks crooked in the pics. is this an optical illusion of is one side lower than the other? cant wait for some more updates once you are feeling better. after everything i have read on nanobox, i am definitely picking up a nanotide for my picotope once setup again. awesome work Dave. Link to comment
gnatster Posted June 6, 2014 Author Share Posted June 6, 2014 badfish. You are correct, I thought the angle was just in the pictures. But I kept looking at the light and at other horizontal surfaces. The right side wire was 1/4" shorter than the left. I've fixed that now. Not a whole lot to report, I've not really been up for tank care right now. It needs another water change, it will be soon. Before all this health fun I had placed an order with Dave of NanoBox fame for one of his new tanks a light and top off container. I had to put it all on hold, I'm happy to report that I'm feeling good enough to get that ball rolling again. I'll be doing a planted tank Last week out of the blue Mirya called me and said she had a bit of fun at an online sale over the Memorial Day weekend. She proceeded to bring over and place some zoa's and ricordia's. I'm sorta flabbergasted how great everyone has been in helping me out. Being a very independent person I've been having some difficulty with accepting all the assistance. I am grateful for it and hope to be able to return the kindness in spades. Link to comment
Mirya Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Good to hear from you Gnatster! I'm back in town now from my business trip, so I'll likely call you tomorrow about seeing to that water change. Link to comment
JR! Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 wish i was closer so i could stop and hang out for a bit. how you feeling man? Link to comment
gnatster Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 wish i was closer so i could stop and hang out for a bit. how you feeling man? Thanks for asking. Some days good, some days I hurt a lot. Have some complications with a slow healing wound that is slowing me down a good bit. Be at least another 2 weeks before I can drive. Arrghh. Link to comment
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