fishfreak0114 Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 5 minutes ago, schgr.cube said: Cute cat, and great reef shots! Thanks Quote Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 6 hours ago, fishfreak0114 said: Thanks, I'm pretty excited that I noticed the babies. We we're just getting ready to leave when I yelled "I need a net! It's gonna be a while, I'm setting up a tank!" Neo is the best He curls up with me on the couch just about every night, and doesn't seem to mind when I use him as a table for my dinner plate Or perhaps he's just too lazy to move I'm already having a great time, I'm using my phone flashlight to read in the dark because I can't get enough of this fresh air! And I'm not worrying about the tank because things seem to be improving 1 Quote Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Great updates!!!! I love all the photos and your tank looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment
JoeMan02 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 9 hours ago, fishfreak0114 said: Thanks, I'm pretty excited that I noticed the babies. We we're just getting ready to leave when I yelled "I need a net! It's gonna be a while, I'm setting up a tank!" Neo is the best He curls up with me on the couch just about every night, and doesn't seem to mind when I use him as a table for my dinner plate Or perhaps he's just too lazy to move I'm already having a great time, I'm using my phone flashlight to read in the dark because I can't get enough of this fresh air! And I'm not worrying about the tank because things seem to be improving awesome pics! Whatcha reading? 1 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 5 hours ago, stellablue said: Great updates!!!! I love all the photos and your tank looks great! Thanks Stella! 2 hours ago, JoeMan02 said: awesome pics! Whatcha reading? Thanks I started "The 5th Wave" yesterday. It's very good so far. After that it'll be onto "The Lord of the Rings". 3 Quote Link to comment
JoeMan02 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 3 hours ago, fishfreak0114 said: Thanks Stella! Thanks I started "The 5th Wave" yesterday. It's very good so far. After that it'll be onto "The Lord of the Rings". Lord of the rings is the best!! 2 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 15 minutes ago, JoeMan02 said: Lord of the rings is the best!! I haven't read them before, but I'm looking forward to it! Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Kitty! Hope you get to have another 12 years with him! Yay for baby labs! And LOTR is one of my favorite books! 1 1 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 8, 2017 Author Share Posted August 8, 2017 5 hours ago, Lula_Mae said: Kitty! Hope you get to have another 12 years with him! Yay for baby labs! And LOTR is one of my favorite books! I just started it today, but I'm only a couple pages in. I spent forever picking away at the foreword or whatever it was that described the repeated misprints in the various editions in excruciatingly boring detail. But I felt like I couldn't skip it (yep, I'm one of those people ). 1 Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 1 hour ago, fishfreak0114 said: I just started it today, but I'm only a couple pages in. I spent forever picking away at the foreword or whatever it was that described the repeated misprints in the various editions in excruciatingly boring detail. But I felt like I couldn't skip it (yep, I'm one of those people ). I have the kindle version and the best part is that when I encounter a word I'm not sure about, I can highlight it and the built in dictionary tells me what it means. JRR had quite the expansive vocabulary! 2 Quote Link to comment
JoeMan02 Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 10 hours ago, Lula_Mae said: I have the kindle version and the best part is that when I encounter a word I'm not sure about, I can highlight it and the built in dictionary tells me what it means. JRR had quite the expansive vocabulary! Oh yeah, that man knew every word in the english language, and when he got bored with them he invented multiple entire languages just for the book!!! 2 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 Well I just got home. Looked in the tank with a flashlight. Everything is retracted because it's night, baby plates continuing to die I saw my radiant red Blasto on the sand was flipped, reached in to right it and wow the tank was warm! The heater was off, but the tank was 85 degrees. Not good. My best guess for the spike is that the sitter closed the maintance door. I chucked a bunch of stuff from the freezer in a ziplock and put it in the back, fingers crossed there's minimal damage. I really hope I can post up some pictures of nice happy coral tomorrow for the tanks 2.5 year birthday. I seriously can't believe it's been that long! I hope that things aren't so rocky for its 3 year b-day. 2 yrs was ich, 2.5 yrs alk and now temp spikes. Oi. 2 Quote Link to comment
TinyOcean Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Oh no! I hope your fast acting will have everything looking alright again. 1 Quote Link to comment
JoeMan02 Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 8 hours ago, fishfreak0114 said: Well I just got home. Looked in the tank with a flashlight. Everything is retracted because it's night, baby plates continuing to die I saw my radiant red Blasto on the sand was flipped, reached in to right it and wow the tank was warm! The heater was off, but the tank was 85 degrees. Not good. My best guess for the spike is that the sitter closed the maintance door. I chucked a bunch of stuff from the freezer in a ziplock and put it in the back, fingers crossed there's minimal damage. I really hope I can post up some pictures of nice happy coral tomorrow for the tanks 2.5 year birthday. I seriously can't believe it's been that long! I hope that things aren't so rocky for its 3 year b-day. 2 yrs was ich, 2.5 yrs alk and now temp spikes. Oi. Hang in there, hopefully they will bounce back. 1 Quote Link to comment
Thunder Goose Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Ouch. Hope everything is all right. I had a tank spike this summer and only lost a few things. Fingers crossed! (and wasn't it lucky that you stuck your hand in the tank to right that coral?) 1 Quote Link to comment
Weetabix7 Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Hoping your next update is a good one, hang in there!! 1 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 6 hours ago, TinyOcean said: Oh no! I hope your fast acting will have everything looking alright again. I sure hope so! I'm not sure how long it was like that, if it was from the maintance door being closed the temperature could have been up since Sunday. 4 hours ago, JoeMan02 said: Hang in there, hopefully they will bounce back. Thanks, I'm hoping since my corals are used to the tank running 80-82 that the spike will have minimal effect. 4 hours ago, Thunder Goose said: Ouch. Hope everything is all right. I had a tank spike this summer and only lost a few things. Fingers crossed! (and wasn't it lucky that you stuck your hand in the tank to right that coral?) I think the things most likely to be impacted are the plates. A couple looked really rough last night. I guess I won't be selling them, perhaps I'll end up giving half dead ones away for free. 2 hours ago, Weetabix7 said: Hoping your next update is a good one, hang in there!! Thanks, I'll make sure to find something good (hopefully lots of good things) to post pics of today Quote Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 How are the baby fish? That's really exciting. Sorry about all of your tank troubles. It's crazy how quickly things can go south. Hope to you get it back on track soon 1 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 32 minutes ago, Pjanssen said: How are the baby fish? That's really exciting. Sorry about all of your tank troubles. It's crazy how quickly things can go south. Hope to you get it back on track soon They're alive! They're so cute, I have a feeling that because they're my first I'm going to get attached and end up keeping them. I'm curious to see how quickly they grow. And thanks, it seems that just about everything did alright with the temp spike. There will definitely be some happy tank pictures later! I think I need to frag Frank. I'm pretty sure the reason the lower heads won't open is shading. Every head that gets adequate light is open and puffy. 2 Quote Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 1 hour ago, fishfreak0114 said: They're alive! They're so cute, I have a feeling that because they're my first I'm going to get attached and end up keeping them. I'm curious to see how quickly they grow. And thanks, it seems that just about everything did alright with the temp spike. There will definitely be some happy tank pictures later! I think I need to frag Frank. I'm pretty sure the reason the lower heads won't open is shading. Every head that gets adequate light is open and puffy. All good news. Sorry, which one is Frank? 1 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 35 minutes ago, Pjanssen said: All good news. Sorry, which one is Frank? The green hammer. My friends named him that, like, 2 years ago and it stuck lol. Quote Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 1 hour ago, fishfreak0114 said: The green hammer. My friends named him that, like, 2 years ago and it stuck lol. Ha. I can't keep my hammer from growing. Every year I sell off a bunch of it and it just keeps growing. I'm due to frag some off again. 3 1 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 10 minutes ago, Pjanssen said: Ha. I can't keep my hammer from growing. Every year I sell off a bunch of it and it just keeps growing. I'm due to frag some off again. Your tank looks great! And that hammer is huge! I wish I could let Frank grow forever without fragging to see how big he'd get, but the shading of lower branches is problematic. I'm kind of nervous to frag him, but I think it's time....maybe next week. Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 Time for a photo dump! Things are looking decent First off, an FTS with clean glass! P8090511 by orb1915, on Flickr Right side. I really need to put more coral on the sides of my tank. Because I usually view from the front, I've neglected the sides... Not to mention the sides are pretty much vertical because I was trying to cram all 30lbs of rock in to make a giant rock blob when I set it up P8090522 by orb1915, on Flickr left side P8090524 by orb1915, on Flickr Top down P8090573 by orb1915, on Flickr Zoas! P8090528 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090532 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090591 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090594 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090595 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090597 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090600 by orb1915, on Flickr IDK what this is, but it's on the zoa rock. P8090533 by orb1915, on Flickr My happiest blasto. Not once was this green one fazed. Most of the blastos are recovering and almost back to normal P8090535 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090552 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090539 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090542 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090544 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090551 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090554 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090570 by orb1915, on Flickr These two duncans are open and happy P8090556 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090557 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090566 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090568 by orb1915, on Flickr My view from the couch P8090581 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090583 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090588 by orb1915, on Flickr Happy, puffy dendro P8090601 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090603 by orb1915, on Flickr P8090614 by orb1915, on Flickr Joe P8090611 by orb1915, on Flickr One of my babies P8090617 by orb1915, on Flickr And may I note that while writing this post I left water draining from my cichlid tank into a bucket and forgot about it. Oops. I caught it pretty quick at least. 6 1 Quote Link to comment
Pjanssen Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 32 minutes ago, fishfreak0114 said: Your tank looks great! And that hammer is huge! I wish I could let Frank grow forever without fragging to see how big he'd get, but the shading of lower branches is problematic. I'm kind of nervous to frag him, but I think it's time....maybe next week. Thanks for the compliment. Fragging was a cinch. Stems break off pretty easily. But just be careful that you don't break off more than you want to. When it starts getting too big, it seems to get too heavy for itself and starts breaking. 1 Quote Link to comment
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