It Was Good Till It Was Bad
Today I dragged my husband and child down to Eastwood Aquarium after a weEk of the kid being stuck at home due to an intestinal parasite and my husband had a bad cold. I was just caring for everyone with a couple of scratchy throats.
I wanted to buy some SPS from the shop and chose a couple of lovely sculptural pieces with amazing colour and polyp extension.
Coming home required a quick trip to Bunnings to grab some Aqua Knead-It. I needed to clean the aquarium and also get the corals in. It took longer than expected because the damn things were so heavy. I ended up pulling my scape apart to try to get it to work. I was upside down in the tank to my underarms. My hair was going in the water (as close as I could get without snorkeling).
I got the millepora fixed and was trying to do the blue Acro but the putty was giving me issues. The coral kept falling over. My husband was making dinner and watching football on his phone and generally not helping. He was hurrying me up and at one point I was trying to get the last of my rapidly hardening putty to stick to a rock to hold the coral...
And I dropped the whole coral on the floor from a couple of metres up. The damn coral cost me quite a lot. It was going to be a big space filler for the depth of the aquarium... And I dropped it. I couldn't cry because I was so damn upset. I tried gluing it back together, but none of my glues would work. I had no more putty.
In the end, I somehow stuck all the little tips to tiles and some other inch long bits. The couple of longer branch like bits have been pretty manhandled, but I somehow threw the shit pile of rocks around to hold things in for now. I ended up spending something like 5hrs doing this and I am so disappointed with myself. The tank was so dirty and messy by the end. I just hope something lives. I half expect the coral to die because it was out of the tank for so long, and I feel like I just can't do this. I don't even have great photos. Sam and Sunny had photographed the corals so I saved their pics. I wish I had bought smaller pieces. There are others I should have got, less fancy and showy, green. I just shouldn't dare buy amazing coral, I am not good enough to keep it.
Sam and Sunny's photos
This was last thing before bed. 1% light. I am starting to get my 3rd sore throat this week and a blocked nose. It's finally getting me.
I wanted to buy some SPS from the shop and chose a couple of lovely sculptural pieces with amazing colour and polyp extension.
Coming home required a quick trip to Bunnings to grab some Aqua Knead-It. I needed to clean the aquarium and also get the corals in. It took longer than expected because the damn things were so heavy. I ended up pulling my scape apart to try to get it to work. I was upside down in the tank to my underarms. My hair was going in the water (as close as I could get without snorkeling).
I got the millepora fixed and was trying to do the blue Acro but the putty was giving me issues. The coral kept falling over. My husband was making dinner and watching football on his phone and generally not helping. He was hurrying me up and at one point I was trying to get the last of my rapidly hardening putty to stick to a rock to hold the coral...
And I dropped the whole coral on the floor from a couple of metres up. The damn coral cost me quite a lot. It was going to be a big space filler for the depth of the aquarium... And I dropped it. I couldn't cry because I was so damn upset. I tried gluing it back together, but none of my glues would work. I had no more putty.
In the end, I somehow stuck all the little tips to tiles and some other inch long bits. The couple of longer branch like bits have been pretty manhandled, but I somehow threw the shit pile of rocks around to hold things in for now. I ended up spending something like 5hrs doing this and I am so disappointed with myself. The tank was so dirty and messy by the end. I just hope something lives. I half expect the coral to die because it was out of the tank for so long, and I feel like I just can't do this. I don't even have great photos. Sam and Sunny had photographed the corals so I saved their pics. I wish I had bought smaller pieces. There are others I should have got, less fancy and showy, green. I just shouldn't dare buy amazing coral, I am not good enough to keep it.
Sam and Sunny's photos
This was last thing before bed. 1% light. I am starting to get my 3rd sore throat this week and a blocked nose. It's finally getting me.
