hello my name is mpty. im uh well im a grrrl. im basically doing reefs cuz there was this dude who got me into it and so hez gone now but i like fell in love. so its been about a year and ive just got over a green hair algae problem. i hate that stuff. i like couldn't sleep becuz of it. almost gave up. anyways, thats over with. i got a refugium going and that pretty much solved everything baby! mangroves, spaghettti macro, more live rock, more live sand, an overflow box. seriously!
i had no idea there was like so much to know about water! anyways, i dunno much about chemistry and stuff but here's what i got goin:
1. green torch coral - crazy green and long tentacles
2. fake clown (nemo guy) - i call him shakes the clown!
3. bubble coral - kinda pink lookin, opens and closes at night
4. serpent starfish - seriously sinister! only comes out when i feed
5. japanese powder tang - charlie brown (hahaha, some old cartoon dude? i dunno, my friend named em)
6. mushrooms (green stripey ones and purple ones)
7. this crazy red stuff that looks like some weirdo macro algae, it grows like crazy and its so firey! i dunno what it is but its pretty. it just grew outta nowhere once my water got better
8. devil hand leather or some other tree lookin leather (it was on sale and dyin and i totally saved it!
9. yellow feather duster - so pretty
10. two green crhomis - larry and curly, moe died.
11. skunk shrimp
12. lotsa different snails
13. some hermits but i moved most of em to the fuge
14. power compact lights - bah, oh well, stupid cute lfs guy
15. a buncha koralias (4 of em) and one spinnin maxi jet
16 open brain green (kinda gross but cool)
17. some green zoos at least i think they're zoos. i dunno. like all the pics you guys post the polyps are like mats or like carpets. plus their like petals or whatever have like bubbles on the tips. but mine grow tall and the petals dont have bubbles. they're more like little hairs. they're bright green in the centre, especially like when actinics are on. anyways, i dunno what they are but they're like poppin outta nowhere yo!
so now my tanks pretty much a year old and doin rad. i dunno. some regrets:
1. well, wish i started a fuge like earlier, way earlier.
2. wish i didn't use tap water at first. i though that prime stuff would do but it didn't -> green hair and ugly cyano
3. wish i didn't go with hermits and went wit snails instead. you can get so many cool snails that do different things (clean sand/rock) and crabs didn't do half da work da snails did, plus sometimes you get like psycho crab and dude mashes everything up!
4. wish i wasn't tricked by that cute lookin lfs dude who sold me coralife aqualight delux (sounds cool huh) becuz it was stupid power compacts. i didn't realize this til like a month later cuz he told me that was all i needed and like deluxe sounds like its good. now i wish i had T5 lights and it only woulda been like a hundred 50 bucks more! baaaah. anyways. yeaa.
5. wish i didn't jump the gun and buy all this **** that just like died cuz i was stupid an didn't wait. seriously. you gotta be patient is what people keep tellin me.
6. wish i didnt buy that stupid coralife super skimmer (micro bubble machine, i hate it)
oh yeah, and so my number one question is:
1. i don't get the checkin your params thing so much. like i do it, but they've never ever really told me anything. seriously. from the beginning all my conditions have always been perfect! but i know it aint true just by lookin at whats looking healthy and you know, noticing things.
seriously. it aint my test kit either. i took my water to two different stores and i paid for it to get tested. always fine.
so im like readin all this crap and stuff on the net and someone writes this funny article right? and its about how cyano and green hair algae eat up the extra junk in yer trunk! so yer water conditions become perfect lookin cuz all that cyano and algae is eating all the crap in yer water anyways.
anyways, basically thanks for the invite and all. i was like so bored so i wrote all this crap that nobodys gonna read anyways so whatever. thanks for askin! anyone startin up, get T5s or better! dont use tap water! and read first before buying! oh to the good old dayz when all i had to worry about was aiptasia...
xoxo mpty
i had no idea there was like so much to know about water! anyways, i dunno much about chemistry and stuff but here's what i got goin:
1. green torch coral - crazy green and long tentacles
2. fake clown (nemo guy) - i call him shakes the clown!
3. bubble coral - kinda pink lookin, opens and closes at night
4. serpent starfish - seriously sinister! only comes out when i feed
5. japanese powder tang - charlie brown (hahaha, some old cartoon dude? i dunno, my friend named em)
6. mushrooms (green stripey ones and purple ones)
7. this crazy red stuff that looks like some weirdo macro algae, it grows like crazy and its so firey! i dunno what it is but its pretty. it just grew outta nowhere once my water got better
8. devil hand leather or some other tree lookin leather (it was on sale and dyin and i totally saved it!
9. yellow feather duster - so pretty
10. two green crhomis - larry and curly, moe died.
11. skunk shrimp
12. lotsa different snails
13. some hermits but i moved most of em to the fuge
14. power compact lights - bah, oh well, stupid cute lfs guy
15. a buncha koralias (4 of em) and one spinnin maxi jet
16 open brain green (kinda gross but cool)
17. some green zoos at least i think they're zoos. i dunno. like all the pics you guys post the polyps are like mats or like carpets. plus their like petals or whatever have like bubbles on the tips. but mine grow tall and the petals dont have bubbles. they're more like little hairs. they're bright green in the centre, especially like when actinics are on. anyways, i dunno what they are but they're like poppin outta nowhere yo!
so now my tanks pretty much a year old and doin rad. i dunno. some regrets:
1. well, wish i started a fuge like earlier, way earlier.
2. wish i didn't use tap water at first. i though that prime stuff would do but it didn't -> green hair and ugly cyano
3. wish i didn't go with hermits and went wit snails instead. you can get so many cool snails that do different things (clean sand/rock) and crabs didn't do half da work da snails did, plus sometimes you get like psycho crab and dude mashes everything up!
4. wish i wasn't tricked by that cute lookin lfs dude who sold me coralife aqualight delux (sounds cool huh) becuz it was stupid power compacts. i didn't realize this til like a month later cuz he told me that was all i needed and like deluxe sounds like its good. now i wish i had T5 lights and it only woulda been like a hundred 50 bucks more! baaaah. anyways. yeaa.
5. wish i didn't jump the gun and buy all this **** that just like died cuz i was stupid an didn't wait. seriously. you gotta be patient is what people keep tellin me.
6. wish i didnt buy that stupid coralife super skimmer (micro bubble machine, i hate it)
oh yeah, and so my number one question is:
1. i don't get the checkin your params thing so much. like i do it, but they've never ever really told me anything. seriously. from the beginning all my conditions have always been perfect! but i know it aint true just by lookin at whats looking healthy and you know, noticing things.
seriously. it aint my test kit either. i took my water to two different stores and i paid for it to get tested. always fine.
so im like readin all this crap and stuff on the net and someone writes this funny article right? and its about how cyano and green hair algae eat up the extra junk in yer trunk! so yer water conditions become perfect lookin cuz all that cyano and algae is eating all the crap in yer water anyways.
anyways, basically thanks for the invite and all. i was like so bored so i wrote all this crap that nobodys gonna read anyways so whatever. thanks for askin! anyone startin up, get T5s or better! dont use tap water! and read first before buying! oh to the good old dayz when all i had to worry about was aiptasia...
xoxo mpty
