[new fish and coral!]Pookie and Babymunch's First SW (old school pico contest)

[lkoechle]

Sup, guys?  I'm back.  I will update my other tanks soon.

 

In a funny twist, I was ordering more CUC for my 100 Days contest tank, and I ordered some Thin Stripe Hermits.  On the page they were described as medium.  and I'm thinking "If blues are small, then medium will be fine."  I ordered three.  They come in, and these guys are golf ball sized or larger.  So, yeah, def not puttinng them in my unglued aquascape 14 gallon. xD

 

I sold two of them that day and kept a 3rd because I wanted to do this contest.  I gave the hermit to my kids who promptly named him the super cool name "Zipadee-Quickadee" (note to self, do not let a toddler and preschooler name anything).  He is living in a bucket in the laundry room until tomorrow.  W00t w00t!

 

My kids' nicknames are Pookie (my 5 year old) and BabyMunch (3 year old).  Hence the thread title.  lol This is their tank.  I'm going to let them help with water changes, top offs, feeding etc.  They will be allowed to choose their own corals from my 14 gallon to put in with "Zipadee-Quickadee". I'm also being very daring with tank placement in having it in a cubby that is eye level for the 3 year old.

 

I picked up the equipment from Petco yesterday.

 

Equipment

2.5g Janky Tank

50 watt Aqueon heater

Aqueon HOB filter

Exoterra Day & Night LED fixture (from my gecko tank package, but its a vivarium so it has a light upgrade)

Reef-Cleaners Florida Reef Rock from ages ago

Black sand from my shrimp jar I never actually put shrimp in

 

Livestock

1x Thin Line Hermit

Majano anemone

zoas

pulsing xenia

ricordea yuma  

 

So we'll see if the light is enough.  I'm not sure.  Either way, no big deal since the corals in there need to be fragged anyways.  Until my African Cichlid tank is set up,  I can also throw on my refugium grow light as well.

 

Photos tomorrow!

[This guy is extra salty]

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[MetaTank]

Woot! Good to see another contest thread! Looking forward to Pookie and Babymunch's first tank!

[JBM]

Having 4 kids (yes you read that right) i promise the wont do anything too stupid*.

Good luck

[vlangel]

Pookie and Babymunch, ha ha!  We had Eggs McNathan and Matty McNoodle!  Ours grew up more or less unscathed even though their parents gave them such dorky nicknames.

[MetaTank]

I call my little girl Munkie, but I think it's just easier to say than saying "Mackenzi" every time...lol

[kimberbee]

My husband calls me Pookie! 

 

Our little guy has become Nugget... which I've somehow turned into Nugg-a-wug-et... so, we'll see how that goes... 

[Wingy]

One of mine had the nick name tomato butt.  

[Friendly]

our childhood nicknames were tame compared to these! i was BG for BigGuy, my sister was Varmint n my lil brudder was simply Bud.

[SeaFurn]

My daughter was Dixie Doodle Apple Strudel!

[JBM]

Only the oldest and youngest have nicknames yo-han (john) and lou (lucy)

[MetaTank]

I call her Munkie, her mom calls her Zee, my mom calls her LuLu and I have no ides what her grandparents on her moms side call her...lol... Gonna be one confused little girl

 

 

[lkoechle]

LET IT BEGIN! Off to the LFS!

[lkoechle]

 Got my drink, got my pocky.  Time to update.

 

 

So this morning we took Zipadee-Quickadee out of laundry room confinement to the "fish room" (which is a misnomer, because actually my porch has the most fish in the patio pond followed by the two tanks in the living room.  but the largest single tank is in there hence "fish room")

 

 

And I started putting on the background for the tank that I painted last night.  Everyone wanted to help of course.  Tanks in my house is a team sport.  There's no "i" in reef tanks!

 

 

 

 

There is a special surprise touch that's still curing.  It will be added this evening.  So don't spoil the surprise @kimberbee!  

 

Then Pookie aquascaped.

 

 

and gave Zipadee some light. 

 

 

Then @Christopher Marks  FINALLY woke up and posted the stuff about snacks right as I was loading up to go to my LFS.  So I sprang back into the house, threw in my Pocky, took a photo, and went to the LFS.

 

 

We let Pookie choose his own coral from the softie frags (Babymunch had a terrible case of being 3 today)

 

 

He chose an Eagle Eye/Radioactive Dragon combo frag for $15.  Everything else is coming from my 14g.

We got home and Pookie started filling her up!

 

Putting the star of the show in

 

We acclimated coral

 

Zipadee-Quickadee got in on re-enacting the mural

 

 

 

 

Busy day.  Now to update the other threads and add this tank to my sig!

 

[MetaTank]

Looking great so far! Really loving the Crabzilla!!!

[kimberbee]

I really love your background!!

[Christopher Marks]

How fun to get the whole family involved! This is the cutest situation. ☺️

 

Looking forward to seeing this one progress!

[vlangel]

46 minutes ago, Christopher Marks said:

How fun to get the whole family involved! This is the cutest situation. ☺️

 

Looking forward to seeing this one progress!

I agree 100%!  Its awesome to see the whole family involved.

[lkoechle]

Final touch.  crab does not like tow truck. Must smash!

[Tamberav]

lol I love it!!! So fun!

[asting]

Awesome background. Somehow the xenia doesn't like the crab rolling all over it haha.

[lkoechle]

2 hours ago, asting said:

Awesome background. Somehow the xenia doesn't like the crab rolling all over it haha.

the xenia doesn't have any feelings now. I woke up this morning and it turns out that zipadee quickadee enjoys eating xenia. not a spec to be found

[Tamberav]

Hopefully its just Xenia he has a taste for since it sounds like the zoa's are still there. 

[lkoechle]

3 hours ago, Tamberav said:

Hopefully its just Xenia he has a taste for since it sounds like the zoa's are still there. 

Thats what I am hoping. Mushroom survived last night and kenya frags are there too. my bet is kenya frags are next.

[MetaTank]

It's kinda fitting, he is crabzilla after all...lol...

 

And I happen to like the name zipadee quickadee