Jadette's 140g Rimless Build Thread
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trackhazard
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Happy New Year, Shirley!
eelk
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Hi Shirley- although I have never met you, I always enjoy reading your posts and seeing pictures of your awesome tank!! Quite impressive!
Question: If you you learned your writing "style" in solid state electronics classes, which classes did you take for your wonderful/witty sense of humor??
Statistics? Maybe chemistry?
(Whatever class, I think it should be a prerequisite for all of us)!
Good luck with the tank and thanks for being funny ( I mean that in a good way!) - much appreciated!!
Lee
Question: If you you learned your writing "style" in solid state electronics classes, which classes did you take for your wonderful/witty sense of humor??
Statistics? Maybe chemistry?
(Whatever class, I think it should be a prerequisite for all of us)!
Good luck with the tank and thanks for being funny ( I mean that in a good way!) - much appreciated!!
Lee
Green_Lionfish
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Wow, very nice Reef tank.
Question for you, I always have problem with anthias. They usually didn't eat much. What do you feed your anthias?
Question for you, I always have problem with anthias. They usually didn't eat much. What do you feed your anthias?
jadette
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Thanks for the compliments, Lee! But trust me. I sound a lot more witty in my posts than in person. Comments like "I heart velcro!" and "egads!" just sound ridiculous when spoken out loud.
I think, as a woman, I get away with murder with writing style. I can be silly and playful and it's considered "cute". If I were a man, I would be called a fruit boy. I can write aggressively, and it would be considered "empowered". As a man, I would be a jerk. If I get emotional, I would invoke sympathy. If I were a man, I would be called a woman. As a woman, I can't lose. If I were a man, I can't win. As a wife and a mother of two boys, I feel for you men. Really, I do. Okay, not really. I'm only half serious here.
Why thank you!
Thank you! More like, what DON'T I feed my anthias. Every evening, I throw in:
1) 2 cubes of mysis
2) 1 cube of spirulina brine shrimp
3) 1 tablespoon of nutramar ova
4) 1 tablespoon of capelin roe (from asian supermarkets)
all into a condiment bottle. Fill it up with RO water, shake it up, and then squirt the stuff into my tank every 15-30 minutes for the next 5-6 hours or so. Sounds like a lot of effort, but it's not. At least not for me. Fish go nuts for the stuff.
So I mentioned earlier that I had to reaquascape b/c I had to tear down the right side of my tank to take out the anemones. After breaking a lot of stuff and getting frustrated, I decided to go for the reef bommie look. Here's what a reef bommie looks like:
Basically a coral island out of no where with a bunch of random corals stuck to it that the currents brought over.
In other words, I got so sick of aquascaping that I threw all of my coral fragments into a big mound, stuck other random corals where I found some space, and then gave the bloody mess a fancy name. Bam. It's a reef bommie!
Here's the right side of my tank:
I moved all my "sting-y" corals to this side so they can duke it all out. May the stingy-est coral win. Which meant I had to move some of my SPS colonies and frags to the left side, which now looks like this:
Sorry for the crappy pic. I don't know. I really need to take photography lessons.
And here's the FTS shot:
Notice how there are no more corals on the sandbed! Oh glorious sandbed. I can now rake it to my hearts content and not accidentally bury stuff. Yay!
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trackhazard
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gveng
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Let's do it Brent, I'll help!
reef_of_flames
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New scape= AWESOME
Looks really cool like that!
Looks really cool like that!
Jadette's 140g Rimless Build Thread
That came out pretty good Shirley, those islands are a lot easier to make when you don't have a tank full of corals. Haha, envy my coral-less tank!!! I'm doing a 150 and was thinking about adding 3 bommies like the one you have there.
And yes, writing as a woman has got to have its perks. Maybe I should change my account name...
That came out pretty good Shirley, those islands are a lot easier to make when you don't have a tank full of corals. Haha, envy my coral-less tank!!! I'm doing a 150 and was thinking about adding 3 bommies like the one you have there.
And yes, writing as a woman has got to have its perks. Maybe I should change my account name...
jadette
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Thanks all! The new bommie set-up is growing on me. Best part is, I don't have to worry about corals being toppled over and dying b/c it landed on my war coral colony.
I believe the massive structure on the left is a tad too big though. Going to slowly reduce it. Going to start by giving the large squamosa to my hubby.
Armitron - I'm currently running 2x400W Radiums with about ~70x3W DIY Leds.
A couple of interesting things happening with the fish in my tank. First off, I had one of my purple queens turn male!
He's the one on top. In this photo, which I took 2 weeks ago, he still has remnants of his yellow stripe on him. It's completely gone now, and he's getting darker and darker in hue by the week.
Another interesting tidbit is, I bought a red sea regal angel 6 weeks ago. You would have never have guessed it by looking in my tank though. My swallowtail angel kept him hiding in the rocks 24/7. Everytime it would peek out, my swallowtail would chase it back in the rocks. I was afraid that it would eventually starve to death. I guess it was eating though, b/c I would see pieces of sponge floating all over my tank that I never saw before I got him. But what's the point of getting a beautiful fish that I never get to see?
So I finally gave in and purchased the aquamedic fish trap. Within 24 hours of receiving the trap, I caught the swallowtail and put him in the sump.
Within 2 hours of doing this, guess who is swimming out and about?
He's still looking as fat as the day I got him and eating like a champ too. Hoping my corals will survive. I've already noticed a few nips here and there. I guess if the nipping gets to an uncontrollable situation, my swallowtail is going back in the display.
I believe the massive structure on the left is a tad too big though. Going to slowly reduce it. Going to start by giving the large squamosa to my hubby.
Armitron - I'm currently running 2x400W Radiums with about ~70x3W DIY Leds.
A couple of interesting things happening with the fish in my tank. First off, I had one of my purple queens turn male!
He's the one on top. In this photo, which I took 2 weeks ago, he still has remnants of his yellow stripe on him. It's completely gone now, and he's getting darker and darker in hue by the week.
Another interesting tidbit is, I bought a red sea regal angel 6 weeks ago. You would have never have guessed it by looking in my tank though. My swallowtail angel kept him hiding in the rocks 24/7. Everytime it would peek out, my swallowtail would chase it back in the rocks. I was afraid that it would eventually starve to death. I guess it was eating though, b/c I would see pieces of sponge floating all over my tank that I never saw before I got him. But what's the point of getting a beautiful fish that I never get to see?
So I finally gave in and purchased the aquamedic fish trap. Within 24 hours of receiving the trap, I caught the swallowtail and put him in the sump.
Within 2 hours of doing this, guess who is swimming out and about?
He's still looking as fat as the day I got him and eating like a champ too. Hoping my corals will survive. I've already noticed a few nips here and there. I guess if the nipping gets to an uncontrollable situation, my swallowtail is going back in the display.
I just spent 2 hours reading your thread and it was definitely worth it. The school of anthias is by far my favorite. A few questions if you don't mind.
Where did you purchase the Randalls anthias?
Do you have a pic of the Capelin roe container? Not sure what to look for in the Asian supermarket.
Thanks and awesome job Shirley!!
Where did you purchase the Randalls anthias?
Do you have a pic of the Capelin roe container? Not sure what to look for in the Asian supermarket.
Thanks and awesome job Shirley!!
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