kgoldy Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share Posted November 8, 2011 Christmas present for the family? Just want to make sure with all these hurricanes, earthquakes and freak snowstorms, everyone still has nice comfortable air conditioning. Talked to my brother... we're going to buy a home backup generator with automatic transfer switch for the house. Combined Xmas present to each other and mom. My reef is about to be weather proof! Link to comment
GregBox Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Talked to my brother... we're going to buy a home backup generator with automatic transfer switch for the house. Combined Xmas present to each other and mom. My reef is about to be weather proof! Nice, word to the wise, if you can swing it and have room for the holding tank, go propane. They are able to last much longer and propane is more readily available in a natural disaster than gasoline. Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 Nice, word to the wise, if you can swing it and have room for the holding tank, go propane. They are able to last much longer and propane is more readily available in a natural disaster than gasoline. These things plumb into the natural gas line. Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 BRS shipment arrived today. I have enough packing peanuts to stuff a standard kitchen garbage bag. Pics of cat (Casey) in Cone of Shame as promised. 10 lbs of BRS rubble. Tin can for scale. So... that should last me forever. And the verdict is out on EcoTech Elements Glue: WIN. Def beats any glue or epoxy stick I've used. Reattached some renegade frags today... Set time is more like 30 seconds than the advertised 10, but it works pretty fantastically. Highly recommend it. Edit: 22November2011 Ecotech coral glue is total crap. Weeks after setting my frags with the stuff, they randomly fall off the rocks. Obviously still don't have my G10 back... And I've had no time for messing around to take pics anyway. Soon we're going to play "Name That Frag!!" since I can seriously identify maybe.... two frags I got from the recent trade. So- get your thinking hats on, (or D, just keep creeping on here now and then) so we can get these things named. Also- going to try my hand at paly fragging soon. I've got some real aggressive growers that need to be seriously trimmed back. I tried murdering one paly polyp today with Aiptasia-X. Wanna see how that goes... Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 why is she in a cone? Edit, I mean why is she in a cone of shame. It's just a cone to help her heal right? Candy, we totally have to team up on peer pressuring Kat to get her to go for a micro froggy for her pico. Instant Wal-Mart contest win! ...I hate that auto-correct capitalizes walmart .... Stop it! Don't let wartskin hear this. Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 why is she in a cone? She had a lump. Last cat died of cancer (which was horrible to watch), so we're being careful. Ashley goes in Friday to get a little growth removed too... Poor puppy is going in for surgery on the day I'm obligated to be stumbling around the streets of the city extremely intoxicated, so she's gunna be a sad little lonely dog missing her dad with her cone of shame... Edit- Warty! Where are you? Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 New trade coming tonight... Maxi mini and some cinnamon (some word that equates to: gigantic) palys... for my 30B that's been sitting around for a year collecting dust. I think I already have these paly's that are coming my way for the last trade, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to have another frag to bring to the swap in hopes of picking up something new. Link to comment
Deleted User 6 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 (or D, just keep creeping on here now and then) GET OUT OF MY HEAD WOMAN Link to comment
Deleted User 6 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 where are the frags? Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Cinnamon Grandis Paly? Link to comment
paneubert Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Lazer Cat is not pleased...... Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 where are the frags? Oh ####. I forgot they were acclimating (read: sitting in bags)... The idiots at the Republican debates have numbed my poor brain... Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 Cinnamon Grandis Paly? Yeah, those. The kid who brought em said they looked different from the ones I have... But being that the new ones are all pissed off, I can't compare until tomorrow. I think they're too big and ugly, so I might just trade em both off at the swap. Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 how does that frag swap work, exactly? you bring pictures of stuff to show what it looks like when its not pissed off? Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 how does that frag swap work, exactly? you bring pictures of stuff to show what it looks like when its not pissed off? That's exactly what I was thinking about a few minutes ago... I'm just going to bring my touchpad to show pics of anything I bring. It automatically syncs with photobucket, so I can show off everything. Link to comment
metrokat Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I'm bringing the android. Are you wearing the "I'm with n00b" shirt? Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 new paly still doesn't look happy... Nem looks good though. haven't seen my tank in the daytime in quite some time. Damn work has been insane... And I think my coral beauty managed to kill the flame angel. stupid CB. Probably won't know for sure until next week, as I won't get to see the tank during the day for a while. Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 Trying new Hannah checkers and Red Sea test kit... Plus Salifert Magnesium test kit... Results are about what I expected. One more test to complete and I'll post full results. G10 is still at Canon getting repaired. Here's some ####ty cell pics to hold you over. In other reef news- I put together a cabinet I had laying around still in the box... So I finally have a place to put all supplements, tools, food, etc. Tank area should look a whole lot more presentable soon. Edit- Hey, what's that bright white thing in there? Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 So the results are in. .23 ppm Phos 153 ppm CaCO3 (Alk) 526 ppm Calcium .03 Iodine .0 Iron (not detectable level) 270 ppm Potassium 1260 ppm Magnesium Looks like I may need a serious water change after all. Link to comment
iball1804 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Do it. Eventually your tank will run out of nutrients. It's just the smart thing to do! Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 But... I'm... so... lazy.... Beginning TLF SeaElements dosing (holding off on TLF Iron and Iodine, which I have, for the meantime). Starting very light, will increase to recommended reef dosage over the next three weeks. Full range test once per weekend to watch how things go. If after 5 or 6 weeks things aren't in balance, I will admit defeat and do a water change. Link to comment
iball1804 Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Ha just one gallon changes at a time! The only way to go Link to comment
kgoldy Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 Changing .1743% of my system volume at a time wouldn't change a thing... Haha. Link to comment
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