cindy's cadlights 8g: on writing deadlines! :O

[kimberbee]

Crazy colors!!

[teenyreef]

Wow!! It's looking really nice, especially under the blue lights. How's your yuma doing? Has he opened up yet?

[charnelhouse]

So many adventures Cindy! The tank looks amazing and I'm really happy to see your YCG is thriving.

[MrNanoReef]

glowing tank at dusk under my nanobox mini tide light.

 

 

and here's the newest ricordea...

 

Love the colors. Who needs Christmas lights when you have eyes candies

[cindyp]

So many adventures Cindy! The tank looks amazing and I'm really happy to see your YCG is thriving.

 

thank you so much! i was worried about my ycg after

my blenny mysteriously and unexpectedly sudden deathed.

it was touch and go for me. if i had lost the ycg, i think i would

have called it quits on fish for a while.

 

Wow!! It's looking really nice, especially under the blue lights. How's your yuma doing? Has he opened up yet?

 

the yuma never opened or recovered. it started

spitting all its guts out, i think. i moved it to a more

sheltered spot, but there'd be a cloud of ooze around

it every day. i still tried to feed it. but i realized it was melting.

it did this after a major water change after the blenny died.

 

i've read that they are harder than floridas, but who knows

what happened. i'm not sure i'll try another any time soon.

 

Love the colors. Who needs Christmas lights when you have eyes candies

 

#truth

 

thanks!

[ninjamyst]

i thought yumas were more difficult than florida rics??

[cindyp]

i thought yumas were more difficult than florida rics??

 

they are! that's what i read. mine was happy for

at least two weeks. then the blenny death, water

change, closing up, etc.

 

some have had no problems with yumas at all.

i've had no issues with my floridas. in fact, i've had

no problems with mushrooms in general, until the yuma.

it was such a pretty one too.

[teenyreef]

Rats, I was hoping maybe he'd made a miracle recovery The floridas are beautiful, though.

[cindyp]

Rats, I was hoping maybe he'd made a miracle recovery The floridas are beautiful, though.

 

i'm hoping my "red" mouthed one is a florida.

i think so. but it's polyps (or whatever) are much

smaller (like pin sized) compared to the giant ones

on my other peach florida ric.

[cindyp]

YOU GUYS! i'm so excited!

merry chrismtas to me! i went to another

LCS to pick up some food and was so happy

to see they had a selection of feather dusters

for sale. the guy gave me a DEAL (i dunno if

it was, but i'll take it), and i picked up this five

inch beauty. she is a deep purple with yellow.

 

 

CONVO with non-hobbyist hub:

 

ME: MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME! I BOUGHT A FEATHER DUSTER!

 

HUB: oh, that's nice.

 

ME: *shows him feather duster in plastic bag*

 

HUB: oh. i thought you got a REAL feather duster.

 

ME: WTH would i be HAPPY about a REAL feather duster?

 

HUB: to dust?

 

ME: ...

 

HUB: ...

 

[gena]

GORGEOUS!!!!! I love the confused hubs LOL. Mine knows now when I say feather duster I don't mean for cleaning .

 

Merry Christmas to you .

[cindyp]

GORGEOUS!!!!! I love the confused hubs LOL. Mine knows now when I say feather duster I don't mean for cleaning .

 

Merry Christmas to you .

 

he also suggested i cut off the sweeping

stingers on my hammer.

aiiii

 

merry christmas to you too, GENA!!

[hey]

thats an awesome duster, and I am now jealous as dusters are really quite annoying to find around here or even online in a wysiwyg setting.

[cindyp]

thats an awesome duster, and I am now jealous as dusters are really quite annoying to find around here or even online in a wysiwyg setting.

 

thank you hey! i really wanted one for a while

too, but never looked. and never seen at LCS

tbh. and there they were. they had at least a half

dozen. there was a really pretty red and white one

(also about 5 inches long) but it was a hard tube one--

which i thought might need calcium doses. so i stuck

with a softie. this one is pretty, but its side view is

monstrous, like from ALIENS. haha

 

when i was placing it in the tank, i'd sometimes

scare it and it'd scrunch up and shrink. it is strong!

[Cameron6796]

How's the goby appetite I hear they can be delicate in that aspect

[cindyp]

How's the goby appetite I hear they can be delicate in that aspect

 

i didn't have much trouble with the ycg at all!

he was a bit timid at first, but then began to eat like

a piggy. he'll take pellets (not with as much enthusiasm)

but definitely eats frozen pods and frozen reef frenzy, and

loves both.

 

i think i got lucky with him. he's very cute.

 

are you considering?

[frankdr]

selection of feather dusters

for sale....... and i picked up this five

inch beauty. she is a deep purple with yellow.

 

Very nice. I'd thought about adding one myself - but I'm out of real estate in my tanks..

[cindyp]

merry merry reefers!

 

thank you for being so welcoming to me

and helping me and sympathizing and cheering

me on throughout these months.

 

here is my alien feather duster worm saying

happy christmas and my yellow clown goby too!

(my gsp have been angry for three days now since

i gave it another scrubbing off of the blasted invasive

sponge that lives in it.)

 

[gena]

 

he also suggested i cut off the sweeping

stingers on my hammer.

aiiii

 

merry christmas to you too, GENA!!

LOL...gotta love them .

 

More pictures of the new feather duster!!!! It's so cool!

[cindyp]

Very nice. I'd thought about adding one myself - but I'm out of real estate in my tanks..

 

i am having same issue. there is no good place

to put my feather duster. i lay it on the rocks and

it keeps drifting around. and i put it on sand, but

it is near the sexies so they jump on it and scare the

duster. wah! will have to look at tank and decide.

but i do love it! it has now drifted behind all the rocks and

lying in the sand for now.

 

LOL...gotta love them .

 

More pictures of the new feather duster!!!! It's so cool!

 

it keeps moving around! need to find a good place

for him in my teeny tank. hope i do. i like it a lot and

hope it does okay. i am dosing with phyto feast concentrate

for him.

[gena]

 

i am having same issue. there is no good place

to put my feather duster. i lay it on the rocks and

it keeps drifting around. and i put it on sand, but

it is near the sexies so they jump on it and scare the

duster. wah! will have to look at tank and decide.

but i do love it! it has now drifted behind all the rocks and

lying in the sand for now.

 

 

 

it keeps moving around! need to find a good place

for him in my teeny tank. hope i do. i like it a lot and

hope it does okay. i am dosing with phyto feast concentrate

for him.

It should do fine, especially if you are dosing phyto . My husband asked me the other day why I don't have a feather duster in this tank LOL. He remembers my first reef had two. And they didn't survive because back then I was clueless. I didn't dose anything for them.

 

I'm sure you'll find a good spot for it.

[owenj]

Love the new duster! I was at the LFS today getting a new tank and saw they had dendros! I didn't give in though since I'm about to do some tank moves.

[teenyreef]

I love feather dusters! I had a couple when I had my first saltwater tank back in the early 90's. It was a FOWC (Fish Only with Cyano) tank, but I did have some feather dusters, and they were the most beautiful thing in the tank. Yours is way prettier than the ones I had though

[cindyp]

It should do fine, especially if you are dosing phyto . My husband asked me the other day why I don't have a feather duster in this tank LOL. He remembers my first reef had two. And they didn't survive because back then I was clueless. I didn't dose anything for them.

 

I'm sure you'll find a good spot for it.

 

thanks, gena! i've shifted and did a nice cleaning

and WC today, so hopefully it settles and is happy.

i also got oyster feast for the acans, and it is weird!

anyone else use?

 

i stopped by ASD today and mentioned to one of the

guys about GBG and he was like, we had some. WHAT.

i'd only been gone for less than a week. so i gave the

owner a stern talking too, and he blamed his employee

who bought fish.

 

hopefully it won't happen again!

i looked at some other fish but none caught my

eye. so shall wait more. the ycg seems to be doing well.

it is a good eater and will eat off my tweezer!

 

I love feather dusters! I had a couple when I had my first saltwater tank back in the early 90's. It was a FOWC (Fish Only with Cyano) tank, but I did have some feather dusters, and they were the most beautiful thing in the tank. Yours is way prettier than the ones I had though

 

fish only with cyano? haha! is that a thing?

i thought cynao was bad? or okay in a fishie tank?

 

they had some other yellow dusters and a white.

but this one is definitely a pretty one. i hope it does

okay and settles where i put him today. thanks, teeny!

 

Love the new duster! I was at the LFS today getting a new tank and saw they had dendros! I didn't give in though since I'm about to do some tank moves.

 

oh jaime, you know you wanna...

[cindyp]

my balano coral is magnifique tonight!

as she usually is at night.