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6 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

I don’t see a banana

and I also don’t see a hammock 

lies...

That’s that morality bit... more beatings needed to restore it. 
 

Now if he meant moralE, yeah that may take some beatings too

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1 hour ago, Cannedfish said:

Comments will be responded to, but in the mean time the beatings will continue till moral improves here are some Sundae Fundae fotos:

 

Digi:

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Bird boi:

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ASD Rainbow:

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CB Zombies:

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Sunny Day Real Estate:

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CF Booger Sugar:

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Exquisite corals.  Kudos to your photography skills.

1 hour ago, Cannedfish said:

Comments will be responded to, but in the mean time the beatings will continue till moral improves here are some Sundae Fundae fotos:

 

Digi:

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Bird boi:

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ASD Rainbow:

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CB Zombies:

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Sunny Day Real Estate:

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CF Booger Sugar:

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Exquisite corals.  Kudos to your photography skills.

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On 12/6/2020 at 8:03 PM, pokerdobe said:

This is a great name. 10/10 win. 

Also a great time... 10/10 Boom boom party fun!

 

On 12/6/2020 at 8:14 PM, mitten_reef said:

I don’t see a banana

and I also don’t see a hammock 

lies...

I see my clickbait title worked! Wahahaha

 

On 12/6/2020 at 8:21 PM, ECLS Reefer said:

That’s that morality bit... more beatings needed to restore it. 
 

Now if he meant moralE, yeah that may take some beatings too

First off, we dun don't reed goud, down yonder in Loueessssiana. Second, depending on which neighborhood you visit here in NOLA, you might get (leather) banana hammocks and light beatings... spicy.

 

On 12/6/2020 at 9:03 PM, Subsea said:

Exquisite corals.  Kudos to your photography skills.

 

Thanks! Appreciate that! Slowly getting better...

 

 

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And with the budgie smugglers behind us! Photos for hump day!

 

This is the brightest yellow acro, I personally ever seen... This was taken without a gel filter, and is true to what you see in real life. Discovered by @mitten_reef, so if you want one bug him:

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AOI zoas, Aoi apparently means blue in Japanese. 

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Polyp!

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Big Shrimp out tippy tappin' and pissing everything off. (see if you can find the 3 fish in this photo)

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  • 2 weeks later...

Welp, it’s that time again. Yup, time to sit back and swallow another sweaty thumb of a month like it’s a warm Miller Lite. Between the travel restrictions, having already watched everything on every streaming service at least twice (including gossip girl (I’m not ashamed (I’m ashamed))), and the even more distressing fact that bars are shut down, this pandemic is starting feel like a reboot of Groundhog Day where they recast Bill Murray with a two day old soggy burrito. 

 

Luckily, and honestly surprisingly, the tank is somehow managing to squeak by slightly better than real life, it’s like being the hot girl’s fat friend, who other friend is slightly fatter. It’s not great, but it could be worse. Speaking of fat girls (segue alert!), it seems as though the female wasp, Pickles, is either knocked up, has intestinal blockage, or is on the fast track to having her own reality TV starting an obese... yet sassy body positive fish! I’ve messaged several “scorp” keepers (as they like to be known) and the consensus is to “ride it out.” Say what you will, but I knew I shouldn’t have trusted that dashboard confessional listening male waspfish... 

 

In a marked contrast to the previous several months there was a noticeable uptick in livestock purchases this last moon cycle. Like a turkey-stuffed-1996-Midwestern-mother-fighting tooth and gelled-nail for a Tickle-Me-Elmo the day after thanksgiving... I left my societal decorum at the Walmart sliding glass door this the last 30 days and swiped the credit card (not the gross way) on several new additions for the tank... Yes, I purchased a whole one and half new “corals.” I know, I know, some of you might, be like “that not really a lot…” Well, Columbus, I implore you to find the necessary real estate for anything in the tank. Blenwood’s aqua-castle is basically any of the double-wide trailer’s featured on the hit show “Horder’s” minus used diapers or cats. Uhh, just thinking about rooms full of old issues of Reader’s Digest and used milk containers gives me the chills…moving quickly on. So what did I buy? Jeeves, the bulleted list!

 

1)      An elusive yet red on red tenius (LRO Hearttrob)

2)      Like any good modern day Hollywood studio, I decided that new ideas were passé, and decided to just make another Avenger’s movie reboot a previous questionable idea. That’s right! I am bringing 2017 back, and would like to introduce Randy Clam II: The Electric Boogaloo The Streets Tokyo Drift Die Harder err… I bought a clam. Tiny Maxima Clams are finicky, and I don’t have super high hopes, but I love how the look, and they add a bunch of character to the tank, and most importantly it was the right price so c'est la vie! No regerts.  

 

 I know some of you smarties are like “but Blen, that’s two purchases? Several poorly formed sentences ago you said you bought one and a half new things? What gives?” To this I respond, “bourbon is one hell of a drug, and the Thunderdome don’t take no prisoners...” Also I lied, and also added an interesting maricultured acro. “Ha-cha! Math will always be fake news in Louisiana!” 

 

Lastly, I reorganized the zoa garden. The blondies are starting to get unruly, and I wanted to prevent “nicer” zoas (CB White Zombies and AIO’s) from being overgrown. I still unsold on the Buttkissers, and may trade them out if I can find anything worthwhile….err…GMK’s.

 

……………………….

 

Enough with the bad writing! Progress photos!

 

DECEMBER 2020

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NOVEMBER 2020

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OCTOBER 2020

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SEPTEMBER 2020

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CLAM JAM 2020

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15 minutes ago, Tired said:

Everything looks great. Are you worried about that echinata doing any murders, though? That stuff's nasty if it gets mad. 

Oh no, I'm not worried at all about the echinata's murder ability. It's proven to be very, very good and "knifing corals in the back under the cold cover of darkness" or even taking them for a visit "to the museum of stairs." It has really excelled at it in fact. The list includes:

  1. Rock Flower anemone
  2. Walking dendro
  3. monti digi
  4. fathead dendro
  5. balanophylia
  6. ultron favia
  7. lepto
  8. birdnest (more times than I can count)
  9. cyphastrea (the current battle)
  10. Small Lobo
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On 12/18/2020 at 3:25 PM, TatorTaco said:

Dang, your enchinata is kind of a dick.  

 

Love the photos.  'Grats on the clam!

Yeah, the enchinata is a huge dick. Also, having spent the last two hours thinking about it... "Congratulations on the clam" is a statement that hasn't been said enough to me during my life. That being said I should've thrown a "Clam Shower" in celebration. It's like a baby shower without the next 18 years of responsibility. 

 

And with that... Photos!

 

Not the best pic... but look at that belly!!

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Hearttrob slowly coloring up!

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Zoa garden slowly filling in:

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This thing doesn't skip a beat, it is ALWAYS bright pink. Whereas, other pink milles (I'm looking at you RMF Diablo) will green or brown out if there are parameter swings... this thing... doesn't care... and better yet, it's pink in all spectrums of light... 9.5/10

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1 hour ago, Christopher Marks said:

Head Explode Reaction GIF by moodman

You shouldn’t stop here- his addictions are addicting and no one can match his black voodoo magic

Speaking of, you need to find a teeny weeny ceramic voodoo doll to put in there to grow montis or something on.

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On 12/22/2020 at 3:24 PM, ECLS Reefer said:

You shouldn’t stop here- his addictions are addicting and no one can match his black voodoo magic

Speaking of, you need to find a teeny weeny ceramic voodoo doll to put in there to grow montis or something on.

Between the monthly goat sacrifice, chalk pentagrams, and chicken poop blood, I've kinda maxed out my allotted weekly voodoo limit for the tank. I'm afraid if I do even a toe nail or sage burning amount more, something... bad... might happen. There's no need to raise Blenwood I from the grave.

 

BTW you were 100% correct about the Loawa 60mm... crazy sharp. 

 

On 12/22/2020 at 3:50 PM, Elizabeth94 said:

Absolutely beautiful. Packed in with color. 

Thanks! It's finally starting to round into form!

 

On 12/23/2020 at 6:17 AM, debbeach13 said:

Love the fatty fish and those corals are stunning.

It feels like it's a troubling sign that I'm kinda afraid the fish is going to pop....

 

On 12/23/2020 at 8:44 AM, Pjanssen said:

As always:wub:  

Always appreciate the love!

 

 

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Time for a small photo dump... my third favorite type of dump. 

 

Peeking through the Primes (HD)....

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Digi from above (this thing is growing like a weed):

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FTS of the Blen House of Horrors:

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Some Holiday treats (Laowa 60mm macro lens and a beefier ball head for the tripod (for doing overhead boom shots)): 

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Laowa super macro goodness, still have a lot of learning to do with this lens (fullllllly manual), but it is crazy sharp and the magnification is crazy:

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Utterly close:

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8 minutes ago, Cannedfish said:

Between the monthly goat sacrifice, chalk pentagrams, and chicken poop blood, I've kinda maxed out my allotted weekly voodoo limit for the tank. I'm afraid if I do even a toe nail or sage burning amount more, something... bad... might happen. There's no need to raise Blenwood I from the grave.

 

BTW you were 100% correct about the Loawa 60mm... crazy sharp. 

 

Thanks! It's finally starting to round into form!

 

It feels like it's a troubling sign that I'm kinda afraid the fish is going to pop....

 

Always appreciate the love!

 

 

............

 

Time for a small photo dump... my third favorite type of dump. 

 

Peeking through the Primes (HD)....

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Digi from above (this thing is growing like a weed):

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FTS of the Blen House of Horrors:

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Some Holiday treats (Laowa 60mm macro lens and a beefier ball head for the tripod (for doing overhead boom shots)): 

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Laowa super macro goodness, still have a lot of learning to do with this lens (fullllllly manual), but it is crazy sharp and the magnification is crazy:

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Utterly close:

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Yes it does a great job but the rotation is pretty stiff when focusing. I misread the picture you sent me- I thought you’d gone all the way and gotten the 25mm for some reason. That 60mm I do use free hand for most stuff, but especially on the Evo and Challenge tanks because there’s no room to sit a tripod or the focus rail. So it can be done but the focusing is harder than usual because of how hard it is to crank the lens to where you want it. 
 

We will all be waiting to see what magic you turn out with that thing. 

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51 minutes ago, Cannedfish said:

Between the monthly goat sacrifice, chalk pentagrams, and chicken poop blood, I've kinda maxed out my allotted weekly voodoo limit for the tank. I'm afraid if I do even a toe nail or sage burning amount more, something... bad... might happen. There's no need to raise Blenwood I from the grave.

 

BTW you were 100% correct about the Loawa 60mm... crazy sharp. 

 

Thanks! It's finally starting to round into form!

 

It feels like it's a troubling sign that I'm kinda afraid the fish is going to pop....

 

Always appreciate the love!

 

 

............

 

Time for a small photo dump... my third favorite type of dump. 

 

Peeking through the Primes (HD)....

ATR_1581.thumb.jpeg.de3db51e3fd237fd7207fff0cee1474c.jpeg

 

Digi from above (this thing is growing like a weed):

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FTS of the Blen House of Horrors:

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Some Holiday treats (Laowa 60mm macro lens and a beefier ball head for the tripod (for doing overhead boom shots)): 

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Laowa super macro goodness, still have a lot of learning to do with this lens (fullllllly manual), but it is crazy sharp and the magnification is crazy:

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Utterly close:

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It is amazing that even with such a small tank I can still never find all of the fish. Your tank is a masterpiece 🤩

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44 minutes ago, Cannedfish said:

A few more slow day in the duck blind photos...

 

Trachy troll:

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Clam jam:

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CF Booger Sugar:

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Not worth the hypes:

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Does that mean you don’t like the white zombies?? Send me your cast offs and I’ll take them. I luv the ground covering stuff. I’m still hoping for a xeniasplosion

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