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

[cju84]

thank you, cj! i'm really happy about that pick. and another

chicago reefer? there are many of you!

 

We couldn't be further from a real reef being (or the ocean in general) in Chicago, so this seems to be the next best thing! Plus who wouldn't want a nano in their home?!

[cindyp]

We couldn't be further from a real reef being (or the ocean in general) in Chicago, so this seems to be the next best thing! Plus who wouldn't want a nano in their home?!

 

i couldn't agree more, cj!!

 

okay. i'm freaking out a little. i'm reading on the local

forum about coral placement, and now i'm scared i've

made my little tank into a warzone. i'm wondering if i

should move my fungia away from my frogspawn? everything

has looked so cute and friendly, but we've seen fotos

of what can happen.

 

total noob mistake.

[FlowerMama]

M it if and when you have to. Unless you know for sure you'll have an issue.

[cindyp]

picked up my first acan today! i also got

a red freebie acan from ASD, bought three small

cerith snails, and also picked up larry's reef

frenzy. i can't say that the corals took to the

reef frenzy (nor the sexy shrimps!) any more than

they did to the mysis shrimps though?

 

 

the acans opened and ate straight away. i hope

they do okay. for the online sale, another plug had

been advertised, but in person, i liked this one, and

will (the owner) gave it to me for same price, even though

it has a baby polyp.

 

they've always been great with their service!

 

after my panic last night, i separated the fungia and

the frogspawn as far as i could. hope everything does

okay. they all seem Happy Together so far.

[gena]

Love the new acan! I'm not sure if frogspawn would give a fungia trouble. I don't think so, but better safe than sorry .

[cindyp]

Love the new acan! I'm not sure if frogspawn would give a fungia trouble. I don't think so, but better safe than sorry .

 

 

thanks, gena! i spent a lot of time in the store

looking at the acans in technicolor. amazing. and

honestly, i was really drawn to the symphllia and

(dare i say!) the lobos they had for sale. but i simply

don't have the space!!

 

but i'm pretty happily and heavily stocked now.

fishies this weekend.

[kimberbee]

What a cute little acan!!

[ninjamyst]

rainbow acan....very nice =)

[cindyp]

What a cute little acan!!

 

 

rainbow acan....very nice =)

 

thanks! i hope it does okay.

 

it looks like my ultra flower nem is

doing a walk about. i'm hoping it'll

just stay on the rock it's on, but i have

a suspicion they might wander into the sand

bed too if they have a mind?

 

aiiiii

 

woke to my green mushrooms fallen off

the rock--but they are okay. i've yet to ever

glue anything down successfully or commit to

that! wonder if i should. have had no luck just

using the putty.

[Mike Savage]

Beautiful acan!

[cindyp]

Beautiful acan!

 

thanks, mike! he cost a pretty penny too.

but i'm so limited in space, i figured, if i'm

going to buy and put in tank, might as well

splurge and put in something i love.

[hey]

thanks, mike! he cost a pretty penny too.

but i'm so limited in space, i figured, if i'm

going to buy and put in tank, might as well

splurge and put in something i love.

 

plus they are a blast to feed, almost as much as scolys

[gena]

 

fishies this weekend.

Can't wait to see what you decide on .

[cindyp]

hello friends! lunch break and i've actually

written words today! i'm a fantasy novelist and

am under contract with a small press for two

books. the first is done (other than copyedits)

and releasing next fall. my sequel is due in februrary.

i think i have at least 30k more words to write, and

i've been dragging my feet, staring at my tank instead.

 

 

today, i finally wrote. so hoorah.

 

i'm glad i got a foto of my only black stomatella

snail. he was and probably remains the biggest one in

my 8g, and i had trasferred him over very carefully from

my 3g pico in a plastic spoon.

anyway, i was *very* amused to see that the hitchhiker

has some hitchhikers on him: spirorbid worms.

 

 

maybe i'm easily amused? ha!

 

and here's a foto of my freebie red acan from ASD.

though i think it skews more orange in my tank? the sexies

favorite nem is this one, though last night, i did see one of them

hosting the ultra nem. for whatever reason, they've decided that

this nem is more friendly? both nems are eating and doing very

well. and i think the ultra orange one has stopped wandering, for now.

 

 

okay, back to writing for me!!

[Drexellake]

Awesome Cindy. Now back to work!

[cindyp]

aw hell. i think i made the noobiest of all

noob mistakes. i took the fam with me to pick

out some fish. i had read, with the exception of

the mandarin goby, that blennies and gobies are

good for the nano.

 

well, i got a rainford goby which is supposedly

super hard to keep and feeds on live stuff and

hair algae (my 3g pico was overrun with amphipods

and hair algae, this 1 month 8g, not so much) and

THEN i got a red scooter blenny. which is NOT a blenny

and more like a mandarin goby in feeding difficulty.

 

i'm so screwed.

 

the LFS doesn't take returns either.

not sure about exchanges.

i do have some live copepods in the tank.

but not sure if enough for these two.

[FlowerMama]

You might want to see if you can do a trade w/ a local reef or have them buy them off you. Yeah, red scooters are mandarins. They call them blennies so people will buy them.

[ninjamyst]

i dont think the rainford goby should be too bad. i was going to get one a few months ago but my LFS didn't carry them. do you have frozen food?

 

as for the red scooter blenny, that will be a tough one. since you are adding two fish at the same time plus increased feeding for these picky eaters, make sure to keep a close eye on water params and not let nitrate / phosphate get out of hand.

[kimberbee]

aw hell. i think i made the noobiest of all

noob mistakes. i took the fam with me to pick

out some fish. i had read, with the exception of

the mandarin goby, that blennies and gobies are

good for the nano.

 

well, i got a rainford goby which is supposedly

super hard to keep and feeds on live stuff and

hair algae (my 3g pico was overrun with amphipods

and hair algae, this 1 month 8g, not so much) and

THEN i got a red scooter blenny. which is NOT a blenny

and more like a mandarin goby in feeding difficulty.

 

i'm so screwed.

 

the LFS doesn't take returns either.

not sure about exchanges.

i do have some live copepods in the tank.

but not sure if enough for these two.

I have no suggestions for you, sorry. Maybe you will be lucky and both will be good eaters. I wish you luck!

 

I was thinking about a rainsford goby, so let me know how he does!

[owenj]

Love the new acans! Maybe pop over to the mandarin thread & get some tips on how they wean them over to frozen foods? I've heard mixed things on rainfordi gobies--uniquecorals sells them supposedly already eating frozen. Definitely follow ninja's advice about keeping an eagle eye on water params with the increased feedings you'll need.

 

Side note--so cool you're a fantasy author! That's the genre I enjoy writing the most too, but nothing published yet.

[cindyp]

You might want to see if you can do a trade w/ a local reef or have them buy them off you. Yeah, red scooters are mandarins. They call them blennies so people will buy them.

 

hi! i think i've tried to look for your name

in profile but no luck. anyway, i love your new

avatar! and fah! i felt so awful for my noob mistake.

thankfully, i was able to exchange the red scooter

blenny for a green clown goby!

 

*waves to GENA*

 

hoorah! and i got a thing of live copepods too

for my rainford goby. will move some of the chaeto

from the back to put in the back corner for the

copepods.

 

whew!

 

near disaster averted!

 

i dont think the rainford goby should be too bad. i was going to get one a few months ago but my LFS didn't carry them. do you have frozen food?

 

as for the red scooter blenny, that will be a tough one. since you are adding two fish at the same time plus increased feeding for these picky eaters, make sure to keep a close eye on water params and not let nitrate / phosphate get out of hand.

 

yeah. thankfully they took the exchange.

the LFS guy didn't seem to think they were

super challenging, but i suspect he's got a few

years of tank and reefing experience on me. ha!

more than few!

 

yes, i have more optimism for the rainford goby.

i hope it does okay!

 

I have no suggestions for you, sorry. Maybe you will be lucky and both will be good eaters. I wish you luck!

 

I was thinking about a rainsford goby, so let me know how he does!

 

thanks kimberbee. will let you know on the rainford. it's

very pretty and was very active when i had the lights on.

now the light is off, it's hiding beneath a rock.

 

total noob mistake today. aiiiii

 

Love the new acans! Maybe pop over to the mandarin thread & get some tips on how they wean them over to frozen foods? I've heard mixed things on rainfordi gobies--uniquecorals sells them supposedly already eating frozen. Definitely follow ninja's advice about keeping an eagle eye on water params with the increased feedings you'll need.

 

Side note--so cool you're a fantasy author! That's the genre I enjoy writing the most too, but nothing published yet.

 

thanks! i love the acans too, they're a great

addition. i seem to love LPS and mushrooms the most.

also my flower nems. ha!

 

and yes, i test and also do weekly water changes.

will keep an eye on it.

 

you write fantasy too? shorts or novels?

fantasy is definitely my favorite genre.

but i read pretty broadly.

[owenj]

thanks! i love the acans too, they're a great

 

addition. i seem to love LPS and mushrooms the most.

also my flower nems. ha!

 

and yes, i test and also do weekly water changes.

will keep an eye on it.

 

you write fantasy too? shorts or novels?

fantasy is definitely my favorite genre.

but i read pretty broadly.

I love the color combos you can get in acans. Plus it's pretty cool to see their feeding response. LPS are my first loves, never been huge into SPS but I'm still pretty new to the reef scene.

 

I guess you could say I write both, but am closer to having something "publishable" (as in, ready to trudge down the road of rejection I'm sure it'll build character) as a short story. Medieval fantasy is my comfort zone. It's also what I like to read best, but I try to read broadly too.

[cindyp]

I guess you could say I write both, but am closer to having something "publishable" (as in, ready to trudge down the road of rejection I'm sure it'll build character) as a short story. Medieval fantasy is my comfort zone. It's also what I like to read best, but I try to read broadly too.

 

novels are definitely a journey. i'm not

a fast writer compared to my author friends,

1k a day is good for me. good luck on querying

soon! i got 121 literary agent rejections and dozens

of editor rejections too.

 

everyone did, including Rowling.

 

i fell in love with fantasy reading western

stuff too! but my published novels are

chinese inspired fantasies.

[gena]

My guilty pleasure is reading Nora Roberts . I love her murder/stalker infused with sex/romance, stories . That's what I would write if I ever were to sit down and write a book. I enjoy fluff .

 

I'm sooooo glad they let you trade in the scooter for the GCG. You won't be sorry. They are darling little fish.

[cindyp]

My guilty pleasure is reading Nora Roberts . I love her murder/stalker infused with sex/romance, stories . That's what I would write if I ever were to sit down and write a book. I enjoy fluff .I'm sooooo glad they let you trade in the scooter for the GCG. You won't be sorry. They are darling little fish.

i've not read roberts but to me reading is

reading and is great! =D i started out as

a fantasy writer then sold as YA. both can get

snobbed at--but i love reading & almost

everything!

 

and you should have seen my oh sh1t face

when i read up on scooter. haha!

the green clown is so cute. but currently

wedged under rock by the other goby.