badbreads Biocube 14 softie type reef

[HankB]

As near as I can tell, you've got some awesome pix but they are taking forever to load. Maybe you'd be better off hosting them elsewhere or just picking the best to post. From a user standpoint, it sucks to see a bunch of half displayed pictures after 5 minutes of "still loading."

 

Oh crap. You haven't resized for the web. Coolcrop1.jpg is 1600x1172 and over 400 MB. You should probably resize to about 800 max in any dimension.

 

thanks,

hank

[badbread]

As near as I can tell, you've got some awesome pix but they are taking forever to load. Maybe you'd be better off hosting them elsewhere or just picking the best to post. From a user standpoint, it sucks to see a bunch of half displayed pictures after 5 minutes of "still loading."

 

Oh crap. You haven't resized for the web. Coolcrop1.jpg is 1600x1172 and over 400 MB. You should probably resize to about 800 max in any dimension.

 

thanks,

hank

 

Thanks Hank, I usually export from Picasa at 1600x1200. I have a super fast connection both at work and at home so I never noticed how long it was taking to load. I'll change it down to 800x600 from now on, should help save on my bandwidth with Godaddy as well.

[badbread]

Just changed all most of the pics on this page to 800x600, hope it makes a difference.

[HankB]

Just changed all most of the pics on this page to 800x600, hope it makes a difference.

 

I dunno. I just unblocked images from your site (badbread.net) and they're still coming down the pipe really slow. FWIW I have Comcast Cable Internet and it is normally pretty fast except for upload speed which is capped. (Speedtest.net shows us as about 10 mbps down and 1 mbps up, though that may be their burst rate.)

 

thanks,

hank

[badbread]

Acan colony:

 

 

 

 

[badbread]

Just got me a DicAPac digital camera bag to take some underwater shots.

 

here are a few of them, a lot of stuff I was never able to snap pics of outside of the water.

 

unidentified SPS frag

 

RPE's

 

$80 acan frag

 

Xmen knock-offs, randoms and atomic green zoa's

 

Blurry RPE shot

 

Was orange is now pink monti cap

 

GSP close up

 

Green bay packer zoa's

 

Bernard camera hogging on green monti cap

 

Purple rim dark green monti cap

 

Atomic green, radioactive green zoa's

 

Bernard chilling on the monti cap again

[Sexy Shrimp]

Cool pics - I may have to get myself on of those toys

[plainrt]

sweet pics.

[badbread]

List of corals and livestock as of today:

 

Named Zoas:

• Armor of God

• Orange Bam bams

• Tub's blues

• Eagle Eye's

• Green bay packers

• zoa's Morphing to Horizons

• Radioactive dragon eyes

• Red people eaters

• Twilight pinks

• Superman/X-men

 

unnamed zoa's

• yellow polyps (super fast spreading)

• small blue mouth middle zoa's

• flame polyps

• green clove polyps

• orange centered zoa's

 

SPS

• Green apple monti cap

• Purple rim monti cap

• Red monti cap

• Green monti cap w/blue polyps

 

LPS

• Kryptonite candy cane

• Christmas favia

• 75+ head indo acan colony purple, red stripes, blue

 

softies/shrooms

• Hairy mushrooms

• Purple mushrooms

• Fake superman mushrooms (more teal than blue)

• Big green tonga mushrooms

 

fish/inverts

• Rosalita the clown fish

• Bernard the cleaner shrimp

• Warden the 6-line wrasse

• Little F*cker the hitchhiking pistol shrimp

• Roosevelt the bi-color blenny

 

 

So I have plans to get a 28G JBJ HQI, should be getting it within a month. When that happens this tank is probably going to turn into a frag tank.

 

Thanks for looking!

[tenoverthenose]

Great looking tank and nice pics.

[badbread]

Few more pics:

 

 

 

 

[badbread]

Here is what the tanks looking like now as I wait for the 28 gallon to be ready.

 

 

 

[ddr_phish]

Oh cool, your upgrading to 28 gallon? Can't wait to see that! Your tank looks absolutely stunning and that acan looks like its frosted in snow, just beautiful

 

Is that a six-line wrasse? How do you like him?

[badbread]

Thanks for the compliments I can't wait to move into the new tank!!

 

Yes, that's a sixline and so far he's been great, very fun to watch. I have a clown, bi-color blenny and the 6 line. Sometimes they bully each other around but no single fish gets picked on and if they do they pick back.

[Khayman]

You have some very nice looking corals. What are the black or dark purple ones?

[badbread]

You have some very nice looking corals. What are the black or dark purple ones?

 

Thank you! Which black/purple ones?

[badbread]

Well, the tank is now 75% a frag tank, here are some new pics:

 

Some pics of some frags in the now frag tank:

 

Green cap with blue polyps, pink cap, idaho grape cap fusion!

 

Pink milli growing nicely:

 

Still have no ID on this guy:

 

ORA supernatural cap and blue/purple guy that got stung by the pink mille:

 

Random Zoa's growing out:

[badbread]

FTS now that its a frag tank:

 

Lots of frags in the tank after this past weekends meeting. Thank you all!!

 

Best picture I could get of the Purple Paly's from DBTC:

 

Super dark green, almost looks fake green Paly's:

 

Orange acan thanks to DBTC:

 

Close up on green monti cap:

[badbread]

Some updates, a few pics of some DBTC stuff growing out...

 

[badbread]

Did A-LOT of work tonight on the tank.

 

• Drilled a 3/4" "oh ######" bulkhead just to be that much more careful (I really don't want to have to use my renters insurance)
  
• Bought and installed a 3/4" PVC ball valve, 3/4" TFP to 3/4" barb connectors for the feed line instead of using the phos reactor one
  
   
  
• Added baffles and used weld on to weld them into place
  
• Bought a minijet 400 to use on the phos reactor and hooked it up (perfect flow BTW)
  
   
  
• Bought and installed a filter sock, had to cut it down to size but it's working very nicely and no more microbubbles!
  
   
  
• Bought these 2 things, used an old extension cord I had, cut a little piece out of the stock hood the tank came with and made this Fuge light. It actually covers up the phosphate reactor perfectly. I had to score and snap a piece of the stock acrylic cover for the light. The hottest part of the hood gets 135 degrees which is warm to the touch. That isn't to hot is it? If so, I have a little fan I think I could install in there.
  
  
  
   
  Hood off:
  
   
  Hood on:
  
   
  
• Installed the Tunze 9002 skimmer... It sits a bit below where it should, I need to shave about 1/8" from one of the top braces to make it fit perfectly. I'm hoping that doesn't mess up the bracing, I was just going to take a dremel to it. I planned the first baffle where it is so the skimmer magnet could mount onto it, and to my disbelief I actually did it right!