Tank Journal Archive
It's really not that bad Creepy MattGreen,
You just have to sniff out the bargain's, be in the right place at the right time and take a chance. :)
It is very relaxing to look over there tho. Nice to see so much room and the fish swimming freely. Some of those little bugger's get some speed up to! quiet surprising really how fast they corner when they are in a mood.
You just have to sniff out the bargain's, be in the right place at the right time and take a chance. :)
It is very relaxing to look over there tho. Nice to see so much room and the fish swimming freely. Some of those little bugger's get some speed up to! quiet surprising really how fast they corner when they are in a mood.
Morning all,
Well looks like it's that time of the month, wondered why I have been feeling moody. Time for a wee update...
For those who came in late, We brought a COW! kept many amused on this forum and he is now known as "Moo" An impulse buy that should not have happened, but very glad it did. We have found out that in the wild they can grow up to 3Ft long, would have been nice to be informed of this, but we also should have asked.
Picked up two double barred rabbit fish at the same time from the local fish emporium down in Willietown. Don't they grow quick! A week or so later we also picked up two cleaner wrasse's, now there's a fish with personality! as soon as they hit the tank, off to work on the closest fish, scared the crap out of the blue tang :) "WTF!, this little bugger is trying to eat me" It took awhile for the other fish to get used to the cleaners. Now it is so cool to watch Moo just float there with a cleaner half way down his throat and another crawling into his gill's! It's cool how he just open's his mouth and gill's, almost like he is holding his breath, if that's possible? :confused: Have been trying to get a pic of this but always to slow or notice them doing it to late.
Picked up another Lobbo that had been at the emporium for awhile and starting to lose his appeal. He was just starting to recede back to skeleton in the pic below, you can just see it about nine o'clock on the left of pic.
Within a week or so he had settled in nicely and the repair job had not only started but was almost done. Got him at the right time me thinks Ethel.
Picked up a tank of E-bay (surprise, sur-bloody-prise!) that had a 5ft triple T5 come with it. Removed the two single 3ft T5's from above the sump and me being an inpatient bugger, found a couple of 100mm plastic coated down pipe wall bracket's in my magic box that would hold up the fixture until I could get something a bit prettier.
I reckon without being a brain surgeon, that this light will be a whole heap better for the life force's living in the sump. We have even had some morphs pop up on some of the rock in the sump.
Noticed a bit of salt creep from where the water from the DT returns to the sump. I have tried a filter sock, filter matting, pillow stuffing stuff and nothing seems able to control the splashing. Another tank I "found" on E-bay came with over two hundred blue bio-balls, so I dropped one or two handfuls in that section of the sump and what do you know, no more splash back! They serve no other purpose other then to stop the splash back, look the part in that bio-balls are common in many sump's.
Umm, what else is new, BRB, smoke and think time. . . . . . . .
OK I'm back, hope you two are still here?
The weekend we delivered a tank to Dynamic, we also had to pick another tank up I found on E-bay, (Umm, is there a pattern developing here you think?) The guy didn't turn up as he lives at another house. Thought it was a wasted trip, jumped on the mobile and looked at another for sale page to see if an IBC was still available in the same town. It was so we went around and meet "PappaSmurf" nice guy and he has a very nice tank. Drove away from there with the IBC we went for along with a handful of sump weed and another 18kg's of live rock!
Bugger me if I then wasn't offered a few more IBC's the very next week at half the price from a customer! just my bloody luck,
I've come to the conclusion that we have to much live rock, I've also come to the conclusion that having so much live rock is one reason why everything in the tank is still growing strong, I like to cover all the base's. :p
Oh yeah, I started our LED build also. You can find that here...... 10ft LED build That in it's self is turning out to be a mission also. It will get there, just a matter of time.
Well that's about it for this installment, so until next time... so long, and thanks for all the fish.
K & J
Well looks like it's that time of the month, wondered why I have been feeling moody. Time for a wee update...
For those who came in late, We brought a COW! kept many amused on this forum and he is now known as "Moo" An impulse buy that should not have happened, but very glad it did. We have found out that in the wild they can grow up to 3Ft long, would have been nice to be informed of this, but we also should have asked.
Picked up two double barred rabbit fish at the same time from the local fish emporium down in Willietown. Don't they grow quick! A week or so later we also picked up two cleaner wrasse's, now there's a fish with personality! as soon as they hit the tank, off to work on the closest fish, scared the crap out of the blue tang :) "WTF!, this little bugger is trying to eat me" It took awhile for the other fish to get used to the cleaners. Now it is so cool to watch Moo just float there with a cleaner half way down his throat and another crawling into his gill's! It's cool how he just open's his mouth and gill's, almost like he is holding his breath, if that's possible? :confused: Have been trying to get a pic of this but always to slow or notice them doing it to late.
Picked up another Lobbo that had been at the emporium for awhile and starting to lose his appeal. He was just starting to recede back to skeleton in the pic below, you can just see it about nine o'clock on the left of pic.
Within a week or so he had settled in nicely and the repair job had not only started but was almost done. Got him at the right time me thinks Ethel.
Picked up a tank of E-bay (surprise, sur-bloody-prise!) that had a 5ft triple T5 come with it. Removed the two single 3ft T5's from above the sump and me being an inpatient bugger, found a couple of 100mm plastic coated down pipe wall bracket's in my magic box that would hold up the fixture until I could get something a bit prettier.
I reckon without being a brain surgeon, that this light will be a whole heap better for the life force's living in the sump. We have even had some morphs pop up on some of the rock in the sump.
Noticed a bit of salt creep from where the water from the DT returns to the sump. I have tried a filter sock, filter matting, pillow stuffing stuff and nothing seems able to control the splashing. Another tank I "found" on E-bay came with over two hundred blue bio-balls, so I dropped one or two handfuls in that section of the sump and what do you know, no more splash back! They serve no other purpose other then to stop the splash back, look the part in that bio-balls are common in many sump's.
Umm, what else is new, BRB, smoke and think time. . . . . . . .
OK I'm back, hope you two are still here?
The weekend we delivered a tank to Dynamic, we also had to pick another tank up I found on E-bay, (Umm, is there a pattern developing here you think?) The guy didn't turn up as he lives at another house. Thought it was a wasted trip, jumped on the mobile and looked at another for sale page to see if an IBC was still available in the same town. It was so we went around and meet "PappaSmurf" nice guy and he has a very nice tank. Drove away from there with the IBC we went for along with a handful of sump weed and another 18kg's of live rock!
Bugger me if I then wasn't offered a few more IBC's the very next week at half the price from a customer! just my bloody luck,
I've come to the conclusion that we have to much live rock, I've also come to the conclusion that having so much live rock is one reason why everything in the tank is still growing strong, I like to cover all the base's. :p
Oh yeah, I started our LED build also. You can find that here...... 10ft LED build That in it's self is turning out to be a mission also. It will get there, just a matter of time.
Well that's about it for this installment, so until next time... so long, and thanks for all the fish.
K & J
Sweet. Thanks for the update dude.
Good to see you have a pulse bud, good for a laugh. I do wonder about folks sometimes!
Morning all,
Its been nearly a month so I guess it's about time I pour my heart & soul out along with some more dribble. :)
Where to start! no Idea, Ummm, bare with me cause a bit's happened since the last update & I may digress from here to there & back to the other once in awhile. We went shopping you could say, every time we went out we found something.
Picked up an Aqua Medic dosing pump off Elias. I only finished putting it in this evening. Made up Randy's 3 pot slop a few day's ago so had that ready to go. Haven't programed it yet as I have to work out a starting dose for the tank.
I have had Tunze PH/CO2 controller (7074/2) sitting in the garage for awhile, was going to go with the calcium reactor. Now we have the dosing pump, I have decided to set it up and just use the PH monitoring function. Again I only started putting this in this arvo/evening & have been jumping from job to job. I haven't got around to cleaning & calibrating the electrode yet. A job for another day me thinks. Also have to get a constant power supply for it also, I hate battery's.
Jen found a new fish or two :rolleyes
Yellow bar angel,not the greatest pic as this bastard likes to hide wgen anyone is close to the tank. I hate that, sell the bugger I say. ;)
Rainbow wrasse, this guy is always on the move, trying to get a photo is near impossible with the point & shot camera we have.
Lipstick Tang, blonde hair and the blue eyeshadow got her I think. :D
Dragon wrasse, these little buggers just love the sand dont they! I'm so glad I put egg crate down before the sand, dig all he wants & rocks wont fall. :eek Still trying to get a pic of this guy.
Orange shoulder Tang, Nice fish & like the blonde hussy, he settled in very easy & was out swimming almost straight away.
That's about it for the fish. Seemed to find a few coral's here and there, I'm hopeless with names so I will let you name them. ....
Ran out of pic space so continued below...............
Its been nearly a month so I guess it's about time I pour my heart & soul out along with some more dribble. :)
Where to start! no Idea, Ummm, bare with me cause a bit's happened since the last update & I may digress from here to there & back to the other once in awhile. We went shopping you could say, every time we went out we found something.
Picked up an Aqua Medic dosing pump off Elias. I only finished putting it in this evening. Made up Randy's 3 pot slop a few day's ago so had that ready to go. Haven't programed it yet as I have to work out a starting dose for the tank.
I have had Tunze PH/CO2 controller (7074/2) sitting in the garage for awhile, was going to go with the calcium reactor. Now we have the dosing pump, I have decided to set it up and just use the PH monitoring function. Again I only started putting this in this arvo/evening & have been jumping from job to job. I haven't got around to cleaning & calibrating the electrode yet. A job for another day me thinks. Also have to get a constant power supply for it also, I hate battery's.
Jen found a new fish or two :rolleyes
Yellow bar angel,not the greatest pic as this bastard likes to hide wgen anyone is close to the tank. I hate that, sell the bugger I say. ;)
Rainbow wrasse, this guy is always on the move, trying to get a photo is near impossible with the point & shot camera we have.
Lipstick Tang, blonde hair and the blue eyeshadow got her I think. :D
Dragon wrasse, these little buggers just love the sand dont they! I'm so glad I put egg crate down before the sand, dig all he wants & rocks wont fall. :eek Still trying to get a pic of this guy.
Orange shoulder Tang, Nice fish & like the blonde hussy, he settled in very easy & was out swimming almost straight away.
That's about it for the fish. Seemed to find a few coral's here and there, I'm hopeless with names so I will let you name them. ....
Ran out of pic space so continued below...............
MagicJ - Moo is doing really well thanks! Hasn't started to change yet but I'm sure it will happen.
This is Moo & Rainbow doing an impersonation of 'vspec' in the stolen Wiggle's car :rolleyes "he went thata way!"
That's about it for now, LED update will have to be tomorrow. I have to get off this & go play the new re-released "Halo" with my boy. :D:cool:
HooRoo,
K&J :)
This is Moo & Rainbow doing an impersonation of 'vspec' in the stolen Wiggle's car :rolleyes "he went thata way!"
That's about it for now, LED update will have to be tomorrow. I have to get off this & go play the new re-released "Halo" with my boy. :D:cool:
HooRoo,
K&J :)
HooRaa indeed. Nice bud!
Just a quick update to finish the weekend. Picked up two new pumps and a controller from down Seaford way today. Impatient bugger I am, had to get them in and running today. :) Got the wires a bit tangled going in and didn't notice till I took the pic lol. All sorted now.
2x 6305's & 7096 controller.
2x 6305's & 7096 controller.
Thanks for the comments slin1977 :)
Your welcome down here anytime DavidS,
Well been a busy Sunday afternoon. Jen had the bright idea that we needed to re-scape the tank :p Personally I'm blaming MagicJ due to his latest FTS, that scape looks great.
So we tried to get all arty farty with the rock work while also trying hard not to crush anything in the tank. Ended up taking alot of the rock out, all the morphs & a few corals. Made a nice group shot in the foam box tho :)
Group shot while everyone was being held captive....
Anyway, onto the main aim of today,
The before pic...........
What we achieved today and only finished an hour ago......
As you can see, the dust is still settling. The water is not what one would call crystal clear at the moment. Might come back tomorrow & it should have cleared.We added a Powder Blue Tang yesterday & that broke the camel's back. We need, or should I say, the fish needed more & larger homes then was currently allocated to larger fish. Everyone was happy enough this morning but you could see the tension in the tank. So another reason Jen decided to start bitching & carrying on like a one legged man at a arse kicking contest where first prize was a slab! So there went my Sunday of playing Xbox right out the back door! The citizen's seem to like the new look. A new apartment for all and a couple that have moved in together. Will have to start working down the tank now when we can. Suggestions, comments & feed back always welcome. Stay with this look or back to the way it was????
Well off to see what's been happening in the forums today, HooRoo,
K&J
Well been a busy Sunday afternoon. Jen had the bright idea that we needed to re-scape the tank :p Personally I'm blaming MagicJ due to his latest FTS, that scape looks great.
So we tried to get all arty farty with the rock work while also trying hard not to crush anything in the tank. Ended up taking alot of the rock out, all the morphs & a few corals. Made a nice group shot in the foam box tho :)
Group shot while everyone was being held captive....
Anyway, onto the main aim of today,
The before pic...........
What we achieved today and only finished an hour ago......
As you can see, the dust is still settling. The water is not what one would call crystal clear at the moment. Might come back tomorrow & it should have cleared.We added a Powder Blue Tang yesterday & that broke the camel's back. We need, or should I say, the fish needed more & larger homes then was currently allocated to larger fish. Everyone was happy enough this morning but you could see the tension in the tank. So another reason Jen decided to start bitching & carrying on like a one legged man at a arse kicking contest where first prize was a slab! So there went my Sunday of playing Xbox right out the back door! The citizen's seem to like the new look. A new apartment for all and a couple that have moved in together. Will have to start working down the tank now when we can. Suggestions, comments & feed back always welcome. Stay with this look or back to the way it was????
Well off to see what's been happening in the forums today, HooRoo,
K&J
K & J, you have done a great job. Personally, I prefer the seperate rock structures rather than just one wall of rock. It makes things a lot harder when you already have corals attached to your rock but they will soon re-adapt. Look forward to seeing the left hand side ;)
BTW, where is the cow - he was front and centre in the before pic??
BTW, where is the cow - he was front and centre in the before pic??
