WV Reefer Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 13 minutes ago, DAP said: Glad everything made it through the outage. Tank looks great! Thank you. Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 On 7/9/2017 at 10:02 AM, WV Reefer said: Today we rest!! and..........We will now be implementing random generator checks throughout the year. You should start them up and run them once a month. I fire up Rasputin like that, let it run 15 mins, then shut it back down. 17 hours ago, Sancho said: Been close a couple times My dad threw a hammer at the one HOA asshole once. Pisser was, we were on a farm behind the neighborhood, he didn't like the new barn. That started a long feud that culminated with me stomping the head of the HOA's ass along with his son one night. Now that I have 40 acres of my own, every time they bitch about something, I bring in 100 chicken and 8 pigs. Sooner or later they'll learn to STFU and tend to their own knitting as M's grandma would say. Which reminds me, it's going to be up near 100 the end of the week, looks like it's time to spray the fields with liquid shit. 3 Quote Link to comment
jack1978 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 On 7/8/2017 at 10:20 PM, WV Reefer said: The bad is over. 24 hours without power but everything made it through. F Ya!! Nice new pics, btw! 1 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 7 minutes ago, jack1978 said: F Ya!! Nice new pics, btw! Thank you sir. 1 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 Just bought a couple of shrooms from BSA Corals. 2 Quote Link to comment
sam_the_reefer Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 27 minutes ago, WV Reefer said: Just bought a couple of shrooms from BSA Corals. Does that mean you're missing a kidney now? 2 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 4 minutes ago, xellos88 said: Does that mean you're missing a kidney now? Actually, smarty pants, it was a spleen. 5 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 I'm always paranoid that Scooter Rico doesn't have enough food. Even though he eats anything I give him, I know the pods and other fauna is what he really needs/wants. 4 Quote Link to comment
seabass Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Maybe you can try to culture your own pods. 1 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, seabass said: Maybe you can try to culture your own pods. Ive thought about this....... been researching time/space/money vs. just buying some on occasion to supplement. In no way has he stripped it clean or anything but I just wanted to make sure he has plenty to hunt. He certainly eats a variety of live creatures and anything frozen that I give him. I was bummed the first time I saw him eat a tiny brittle star. 1 Quote Link to comment
seabass Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 It might save you some money. Culturing plankton can be kind of fun. https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Anano-reef.com+culturing+pods&pc=MOZI&form=MOZTSB http://www.ipsf.com/podbreedingkit.html 1 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 7 minutes ago, seabass said: It might save you some money. Culturing plankton can be kind of fun. https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Anano-reef.com+culturing+pods&pc=MOZI&form=MOZTSB http://www.ipsf.com/podbreedingkit.html I love IPSF and this was exactly what I was thinking about. I will have extra room under my 75 Gallon and I thought about placing a small macro tank under there for the pods to live and grow. Then I could scoop them out on occasion to reseed the display so that he never gets too low. 2 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 I need to find that article about those pod condos. I made 3 of them and all I do is shake them over the tank when the lights are out, instant Scootie chow. The pods seem to really like that stuff and it grows a metric shittonne of pods. 1 Quote Link to comment
seabass Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Here's another article: http://www.liveaquaria.com/PIC/article.cfm?aid=302 2 Quote Link to comment
seabass Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 The Live Aquaria article is basically how I culture rotifers. I also culture phytoplankton for food. If you have any questions about this process, let me know. Here is a 53 micron sieve that is suitable to use: https://www.amazon.com/Sieves-22-44-Plankton-Sieve-Micron/dp/B01BX0WRSI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499980438&sr=8-1&keywords=plankton+sieve Phytoplankton: Rotifers: 5 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 5 hours ago, seabass said: The Live Aquaria article is basically how I culture rotifers. I also culture phytoplankton for food. If you have any questions about this process, let me know. Here is a 53 micron sieve that is suitable to use: https://www.amazon.com/Sieves-22-44-Plankton-Sieve-Micron/dp/B01BX0WRSI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499980438&sr=8-1&keywords=plankton+sieve Phytoplankton: Rotifers: Thank you for all the info! I will definitely pick your brain more on this later. I've got to get the other tank sorted out first to free up space. 8 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, StinkyBunny said: I love hermit faces! 1 Quote Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Yea, Yosemite Sam was a photogenic little shit. He'd come out to the end of one of the pieces of live rock when it was feeding time and M would hand him a piece of food with the tweezers. We had one of those HUGE orange legged Hawaiian hermits in our 240 back in the 80s, another character. 2 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 15, 2017 Author Share Posted July 15, 2017 2 minutes ago, StinkyBunny said: Yea, Yosemite Sam was a photogenic little shit. He'd come out to the end of one of the pieces of live rock when it was feeding time and M would hand him a piece of food with the tweezers. We had one of those HUGE orange legged Hawaiian hermits in our 240 back in the 80s, another character. I love them but they are such little shits sometimes. 1 Quote Link to comment
sprite Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Good looking tank wvreefer 1 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted July 15, 2017 Author Share Posted July 15, 2017 45 minutes ago, sprite said: Good looking tank wvreefer Thank you. Quote Link to comment
Sk8n Reefer Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 just found your thread- tanks looking nice, good job! I'll have to find ya on insta. The culture foods is interesting- might have to think about that 1 Quote Link to comment
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