A Splash of Color - My SPS Peninsula Reef
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biggles
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I'm all good thanks guys 
Boxboy is allergic to physical work Marty but he can tell you the theory..... bit like most teens now days. My father taught me about electricity at an early age when he had me touch an electric cattle fence. After he picked me up and stopped laughing he said ' you won't do that again will you ' - thanks dad :thumbsup:
The 250W radium dawn coming up over the horizon as the fish wake up today.
Boxboy is allergic to physical work Marty but he can tell you the theory..... bit like most teens now days. My father taught me about electricity at an early age when he had me touch an electric cattle fence. After he picked me up and stopped laughing he said ' you won't do that again will you ' - thanks dad :thumbsup:
The 250W radium dawn coming up over the horizon as the fish wake up today.
martinphillip03
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I think I counted 5 anthias. Did you restock? By the way, your right, this tank is screaming for a purple tang and a pair of crosshatch triggers
Marty
Marty
Wrangy
Acrotrooper
They certainly are disgustingly beautiful! Haha Stylo Boy would have had to sell his tank for all five even at bulk price :lolspin: They were friggin stunning though, expensive potential carpet surfers though lol
The tank looks amazing though Andrew! I love it!! Ouch about the pliers though, that would have been a good surprise for you!
Haha and here I am, spent $200+ on my bellus angelfish who I love to absolute bits. You're right saying we're all a bit nuts :wildone: most that aren't in the hobby don't get it, lucky my partner gets it (or at least my obsession haha) so there's no need to hide spending:ekk1::worried:
Wrangy, I think all of us reefers are nuts as there's no way a sane person would spend so much on such a 'silly' hobby. I had someone come into the shop the other day and the conversation went something like this.
Shopper. "$15 for an anglefish!!!! (freshwater)"
Me. "Yes that's correct"
Shopper. "That's madness, why would anyone pay that much for a stupid fish?"
Me. "Because some people love the hobby and know that's how much those fish cost and they don't mind paying that for them"
Shopper. ".......wow really....their nuts then"
Me. "Well I'm one of those people and I don't just have a tropical tank, I have a reef tank as well. Most things cost 2-3 times more than freshwater too"
Shopper. Walks out stunned.
:lol:
martinphillip03
New member
Andrew, Have you considered streaming your tank on the internet? You and Kevin could become Internet heroes. Alas you won't be able to clean your tank naked anymore.
Marty
Marty
Fishy 1
The Reefer From Downunder
+1 to that (live streaming the tank that is, not seeing Biggles naked cleaning it though. Mind you he probably looks damn sexy doing it:lmao::facepalm: ).
tmantaylor18
Active member
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sahin
Ultimate Reefer
Rory, have you been sniffing acro slime? I warned you about listening to Kevin and his crazy ideas.
biggles
Premium Member
Thanks Rodney
The Randall's Anthias that went down into the sump was dead the next morning and stuck to the return pump grill so that was a major bummer. I have 2 Randall's and three Lyretails now but i need lots more Randall's. I don't like triggers but a purple tang is definitely going in the display Marty :thumbsup:
This is a prime example of why biggles has no show fish - no one will buy him one or five.............
Hi mate, you must be friends with Bryce because no other reefer has ever laid eyes on my tanks. You've been reefing for quite a while i see, how are things now you're using halides mate, what bulbs do you run if i may ask.
I can wear my boxers when cleaning Marty, it's only acro scaping that requires total nudity
Hmmmmmmmmm
I'm still trying to get my head around that post........
One of my lyretails, i intend having about 15 mixed anthias because i LUV EM !
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
One of my lyretails, i intend having about 15 mixed anthias because i LUV EM !
I'm getting 5 Lyretails in a few months. Going away on holiday soon for a few weeks, so I dont want to get them now.
As long as the daily feeding can be kept up, these Anthias are very pretty fish.
Electrobes
Montipora type guy
I currently have one male lyretail and 3 females... I bought the male in advance of the females by about ... I don't know, maybe 4 months or so? The hilarious part is that my male Lyretail is a great googily moogily huge one compared to the itty bitty females.
One look at the male and the females turned, looked at me, and proclaimed "You are out of your skimmate mind."
One look at the male and the females turned, looked at me, and proclaimed "You are out of your skimmate mind."
Yeah I have been friends with Bryce for a while, I have helped him out as much as I can with his venture into this hobby. Yep been a reefer for around 9 years and have to admit since going with halides I have had amazing success. I ran t5 for a year or two but never liked them, then went led for 5 years and did well for the first 3-4 years then had unexplained rtn. But halides are the ducks nuts as far as I'm concerned lol.
I am currently testing 2 x 250w phoenix 12k globes I got off a fellow reefer on my 4ft system and am loving them. I am currently setting up a 1700x660x560 tank and will be using the 2 250w halides along with leds to run this new sps heavy tank.
I live in Pyalong and Bryce mentioned you live not far from us so if you ever want to drop round for a chat/beer I would welcome any advice you could give me in regards to my new build.
:beer:
biggles
Premium Member
I'm getting 5 Lyretails in a few months. Going away on holiday soon for a few weeks, so I dont want to get them now.
As long as the daily feeding can be kept up, these Anthias are very pretty fish.
Hi mate, mine have been getting about 7-8 a day so their little tummies stay full
Who's looking after the reef while you're off bludging ?
I looked those up, never tried cardinals but a swarm of those would look awesome i bet
Lol, i have three and one is clearly dominant but still looks like the other two. The runty one hangs out with the royal gramma who chases the other pair away if they come looking for trouble near his cave.
I like the sound of your new display, very similar dimensions to my tank. :thumbsup:
I took this off Wiki - ' Pyalong was connected by railway in 1890. The line was closed in 1968 '
It's pretty clear that at some point the rest of Aus decided they wanted nothing more to do with you Pyalongites mate.........
Kevin and i are always here if you'd like to drop in and talk acros - i can talk acros for bloody hours.........
Been doing more work on the third island and added more sand. The sand bed looks like Lawrence of Arabia should be riding a camel across it........:rolleye1:
biggles
Premium Member
Acroman's Acro Cave Update:
Acroman sat down to the acro lappy this morning ready to take a sip of his double black eye opener and found this on the screen.
Recalling the previous nights conversation with Kevin about his intention to become Stylo Boy's arch nemesis - Kaos Koala, it was obvious that something was up.
Upon turning the lights on Acroman discovered that Kaos Koala had indeed struck the first blow in what is sure to become a long and nasty battle with young Stylo Boy.
It appears that Kaos Koala has super glued all your frags to a frag rack Stylo Boy.......... the good news is he didn't mess with any of my acros :thumbsup:
Acroman sat down to the acro lappy this morning ready to take a sip of his double black eye opener and found this on the screen.
Recalling the previous nights conversation with Kevin about his intention to become Stylo Boy's arch nemesis - Kaos Koala, it was obvious that something was up.
Upon turning the lights on Acroman discovered that Kaos Koala had indeed struck the first blow in what is sure to become a long and nasty battle with young Stylo Boy.
It appears that Kaos Koala has super glued all your frags to a frag rack Stylo Boy.......... the good news is he didn't mess with any of my acros :thumbsup:
Wrangy
Acrotrooper
Acroman's Acro Cave Update:
Acroman sat down to the acro lappy this morning ready to take a sip of his double black eye opener and found this on the screen.
Recalling the previous nights conversation with Kevin about his intention to become Stylo Boy's arch nemesis - Kaos Koala, it was obvious that something was up.
Upon turning the lights on Acroman discovered that Kaos Koala had indeed struck the first blow in what is sure to become a long and nasty battle with young Stylo Boy.
It appears that Kaos Koala has super glued all your frags to a frag rack Stylo Boy.......... the good news is he didn't mess with any of my acros :thumbsup:
bahahahaha excellent! He must be wise enough to know not to mess with Acroman but rather try his luck with me, curse Kaos Koala!
They are some mind blowing frags so I don't mind the odd battle with Kaos Koala then if that's what's needed for those beauties! :fun2::hammer: especially if they continue to settle into my tank like your first box from the Acro Ute did!
