Diary of my LiL 40 Gallon Breeder(Intense)

[wentreefgirl]

My condolenses(sp). Thats sort of like having a brand new anenome die from being sucked up into the power head. Been a long time since that happend but still kills me.

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Green Bird's Nest

Blue Milli

Red Spotted Disc

 

[tsquad]

Hi John, very sorry about your angel
Sure was a beauty...

May I ask why you have the SPS on the sandbed?

 

[InsaneClownFish]

:sad1:

My two lil angels.. {The pic is actually an optical illusion, as the Golden arrived almost twice the size of my Brazilian}

Best Pics so far...my Golden Pygmy is a bit camera shy, yet so far I'm greatly pleased as he's less timid than most and actually picking on mysis.

 

[tsquad]

Wow, what a great fish, I might get one in his honor. Beautiful fishy, he will be missed.

 

[Mariner]

Ahhh man!!! Sorry about your loss. If you don't mind me asking, how did it get the glue -- were you gluing frags in the tank or something? Are you going to replace it with another?
Mariner

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Thanks for the sympathies all.

Mariner, yes, I was glueing all the sps frags to rock. I removed the frag added the glue then placed. My girlfriend yelled at me because she saw some glue spin across the surface...I quickly got it out.

I was also putting the glue on a plastic fork and then adding it directly to the tank to try and reinforce the live rock rubble my clam is on.

I had jostled the clams' LR rubble that was wedged between two rocks while I was "planting" some sps. This was enough to completely throw off my rockwork- and no matter what I tried, I couldn't get them secure again; and after cursing at the rocks for quite some time I finally had the clam positioned again I was not about to "move" it...hence the glue/fork method....

I moved my clam a little while back to a spot higher up in front of the tank. This turned out to be THE perfect spot...the clam loved it.
The clam was perfectly secure until I "bumped" the rock. After this,
I had "battled" the rubble falling twice with the clam attached. One of the best things about Brazilian live rock is actually probably its biggest downfall...it's so light and porous it almost floats.


Lesson learned...don't be in such a rush...and shut off the flow completely.

It's really ashame because my angel was a model citizen...she even ignored my Maxima's mantle.

Tyler...thanks..

The SPS was on the bottom so it could acclimate from the dark shipping box to lights again. Mine was all cultured going from hallides to T5s so it wasn't such a big deal.

If they had been wild frags, they would have needed to stay at the bottom for a week to lesson the chance of RTNing.

I'll get more pics tonight of the "positioned" frags.

I'll also have more pics up in a few minutes.

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Pink Milli and Green Slimer

Pink Milli- more 'pink' in person

Green Slimer- under slightly different lighting...'more green' in person

Neon Green Poccilpora and Blue Green Tenuis{shows better color in bluer light}

Neon Green Poccilpora

Blue Green Tenuis

More of the Blue Milli

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Green Rics

 

[melev]

That is a GORGEOUS CLAM!

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Thanks Marc...I'll be posting a few more pics of my clam later tonight...

Right now I'm uploadin some more SPS pics...

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Montipora Mollis

Pink Ricordia

Another Shot of the Blue Green Tenuis

 

[melev]

I waited 3 hours for that?! Where's the clam!!!!

 

[InsaneClownFish]

LOL

Please be patient. My ISP dropped me 4 times already....grrr...

They're coming! Promise...

 

[melev]

I have been sitting here at this page non-stop ever since you promised. Now you expect me to wait even longer? Hah! I'll check back tomorrow.

 

[InsaneClownFish]

 

[InsaneClownFish]

And By Popular Demand:

 

[InsaneClownFish]

My Golden Pygmy Angel

mmm sps

mmmmm more sps!

 

[melev]

And By Popular Demand:

I knew I liked that clam.

 

[kroe]

Very nice frags and clam. Your camera does much better with the spectrum of T5s than mine does.

-Ken