looks good welcome to the money pit
I was telling my wife what I estimate we've paid in this hobby over the past near decade and she said "I don't want to know, we don't talk about that"
Isn't that a lot more work?
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I was telling my wife what I estimate we've paid in this hobby over the past near decade and she said "I don't want to know, we don't talk about that"
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I was telling my wife what I estimate we've paid in this hobby over the past near decade and she said "I don't want to know, we don't talk about that"
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sounds like you have thre green light to buy more stuff within reasonI'm finally almost getting better about this... occasionally I keep "thinking" about a new tank and then somehow talk myself out of it, thankfully, lol. I'm still really curious about those cylindrical jellyfish setups, but I'm glad I simply have no space to set one up. So right now we are down to just the two tanks... 4g and 130g systems at home, then my wife has a small one at her office now too lol
we are doing a "staycation" this weekend, travelling a bit north for some spa that her boss gave her a gift certificate to and she said "I thought we were gonna have a fish date after on the way home" lol. We will be so far north that we will pass about 7-8 potential fish stores on our drive back. I can see another tang in my near future, maybe two if I play my cards right lol.
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congratulations on your new fish
I found a local guy who can get me whole sale prices. $50 ea for a Tomini, Naso, and Scopas, but he has a $500 min order. I'm not looking to fill his minimum but if he gets me pricing in time before we splurge on the weekend I might try to get a couple and mix my order with a guy placing a larger order to hit the minimum... one of our baby clownfish disappeared when we added the huge wall of nems (did the nem eat her???) but my remaining clownfish, as lonely as he appears, has made a home in the biggest nem and really seems to like it so we're hoping to add 1 or 3 clownfish, a firefish, maybe a pearly jawfish. that would pretty much bring us back to where we were before the big tank crashed last Jan.congratulations on your new fish
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It will work out some how
Well we had hoped (I had hoped) to add a couple tangs to the tank this weekend but instead we ended up with four new clowns. The two storms the guy gave us for 50% off so buy one, get one. He had had them for a couple months (petco) but wouldn't split them and nobody apparently nobody wanted to spend that much. They folks there recognize me whenever I come in and today I said man that's a great deal.... Hard for me to justify though, if they were 50% off instead of 35% I'd probably have to jump on it ....
She goes ok wait I'll text him. Sure enough they gave me the homie hookup, my wife is super happy. Added the black and the common as well to bring our total tank clown count to 5.
THe storms were already pro-nem so I put all four clowns into a mushroom box I had, transfered that to the tank so they could gently swim out directly into the nem field, which seems to make them all pretty happy.
She goes ok wait I'll text him. Sure enough they gave me the homie hookup, my wife is super happy. Added the black and the common as well to bring our total tank clown count to 5.
THe storms were already pro-nem so I put all four clowns into a mushroom box I had, transfered that to the tank so they could gently swim out directly into the nem field, which seems to make them all pretty happy.
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Win for all then congratulations
so far so good! we originally had just 2 clowns in this new system and when I added a rock of 3 nems (which I believe is actually EIGHT!) the next day one of my two young clowns disappeared. I have no idea where she went, but my tank seems to do a good job of absolutely disappearing the body now if someone perishes. so then we had just this one young clown hosting on the nem field by himself.
when we added these 4, he and the large (I assume female) storm would face off with one another, mouth to mouth. The larger storm acted aggressive, but he/she would turn around and get right back at her. they chased each other a little bit the first few hours and now all 5 clowns seem to be very happy sharing the nems together.
This works out better cause the tangs I was considering were all very small and I didn't want to introduce a small baby scopas to my large existing tangs, I didn't think it would survive tbh.
not the best picture and I clearly need to do a little cleaning but I can finally grab a full tank shot without a bunch of glare on the glass. Its come a long ways since March, and I think we are happy with the rock work. my plan is to remove that nem in the middle and my wife wants to use the bare spots on the left side / rock for torches. otherwise everyone seems pretty happy.
only thing I can figure out is why my duncans and kenya trees that are thriving in my little 4g tank are not nearly as happy when I try to put them in the big tank, even though the big tank seems to be doing really well for everything else. zoas, frogspawn, hammers, obviously the nems and fish all seem do be fine, and the gsp I started on the back wall as doubled in size already.
only thing I can figure out is why my duncans and kenya trees that are thriving in my little 4g tank are not nearly as happy when I try to put them in the big tank, even though the big tank seems to be doing really well for everything else. zoas, frogspawn, hammers, obviously the nems and fish all seem do be fine, and the gsp I started on the back wall as doubled in size already.
