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Sigh. More football. Yawn.
The Mariners are playing the Yankees Saturday. Go M's!! We're on a 2 game winning streak! And only second-to-last in the AL standings (yes Baltimore sucks more than we do).
I <3 Ichiro. Will wear my jersey on Saturday.
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so is that a maxspect?
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Finally made it down to Garrett's, great guy, nice setup, and awesome stuff! I'm loving the frags we got there - very healthy. The baby sure loved playing in the sprinkler on his lawn, too.
Also thanks to Beth, Kim & their puppy for the ride down there!
Finally, a thanks to the Nano Reef for some illustrious black eggcrate and delicious baked goods!
PS, wait til y'all see what we got from Sarcastic Corals!
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What is this?
I have a plate coral factory going on here and I can tell you this is not a plate. If it is a "baby anemone" it is a mojano.We are so lucky to have an expert like you on hand.
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Sounds like Eric might have already addressed this with you, but for others out there wondering something similar - if you give it a nudge, does it retract into a skeleton? I posted a similar picture on NR awhile ago and everyone said VERY definitively that what I had was a majano and to nuke it. Eventually I found some previous thread about distinguishing between majano and small plate corals... lo and behold, mine was actually just a small plate coral that would retract into it's skeleton if agitated (a majano doesn't have a skeleton).
HTH
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That rainbow acan garden is siiiiick, ladies... it's got me craving skittles.
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Cool! Thanks so much for finding that; I didn't know the name. I have a rock with some:
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fun thread! these pics show some of my brightest:
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I did it! (clap) My 90G now has 4 neat holes in it, and I'm ready to start plumbing. It was easy!
Thanks to Grassi for loaning us the bits! This is fun stuff!
Gillian
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Note how tiny she is compared to the B & W clown. Cute, huh?
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Oh, she does cram herself into impossibly tight spots at night. Maybe she's scraped herself?
Here's a photo:
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I don't think that's it- I don't see anything that looks like any sort of pitting. It's more subtle than that. It's kind of a whitish faded patch, almost kind of fuzzy looking. Kendra's trying to take a picture right now, but she's zipping all over the tank with the clowns.
Gillian
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Our new baby tang has a small patch of something near her face. It's like a slightly faded patch on the part of her face that's black, over her eye. I'd snap a photo, but she swims too fast.
At first, I thought she had a couple of damaged scales- perhaps from when she was bagged up or transported to our tank. Over the last couple of days, I've watched the patch get bigger, so I think it's probably either a bacterial infection or a fungal infection of some sort.
She's eating well and seems very active. Aside from keeping a close eye on water parameters, what should we do for her? A google search suggested feeding less meaty food (she does love the mysis shrimp) and more nori, and adding garlic. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Gillian
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thanks for setting this up, kim! personally, i would suggest that the tickets be $10 for the first one, and $5 for each thereafter.
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wow is there a web site where you got the tank from
yep, check out picoaquariums.com!!
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hey randy, can i get the "no ID SPS cool looking" frag?
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Thanks, everyone! Here are some pics of the build. Alex, I'm eventually going to see if i can build something with an arm off of the back so that you can see the rimless better, but I don't think I'll suspend it.
Here is the sketch of what I had intended to do. The buckpucks have external potentiometers prewired to them that I didn't draw out, but that's how the lights dim:
First I drilled and tapped the heatsink for the mounting screws:
After cleaning the surfaces, I stuck the thermal adhesive pads on, and stuck the LED stars on those:
This is out of focus, so you might not notice that I didn't stick them on like I had planned! DOH! This would not be realized until later, after I wired it:
And then found that only half of both the blues and whites worked: (scratch)
Went back to my sketch and realized my error, rewired, and... (clap)
The good news is that my error gave me the opportunity to rewire everything, and I was much better at soldering by that point!! The bad news is that if I had taken the time to drill & tap for the LED stars, I could have changed their orientation more easily, but I used the adhesive pads... so they are ON there (for real). But it's not the biggest deal, just a little extra wire.
Updates on the tank cycle... colors were a little different in person, so trust me on the numbers! Also, I had added some fresh shrimp:
July 23:
Ammonia ~ 1.0
Nitrite ~ 0.25
Nitrate = 10-20
July 28:
Ammonia = 0-0.25
Nitrite = 0
Nitrate = 20+
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That looks like a pocketful of trouble!
I love puppies. You got yourselves a cute one. Play date???
Gillian
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Still have it! If it's not gone by Saturday, I'll have it in my car at the meeting for all you impulse shoppers...
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hey eric, we have your full moons! they are glued to a rock right now, but they might not have grown onto the rock yet so i can see if i can pop them off and get a frag for you. i fragged them once before for the share the love but they've grown some since then too. hope all is well with the baby!
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Share the love!
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tang! clownfish!
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That's about what our rock looked like when we "adopted" our first tank earlier this year. We did regular water changes with RO/DI water, added to the cleanup crew, and everything started looking much better within a couple of weeks. We are newbies, too, but if it were me, I wouldn't do anything drastic.
Gillian
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Congratulations! Two boys = a ton of fun and a fair amount of property damage, but it's worth it.
Gillian
Pico tank clip on light.
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Not sure if you already got something but you might try this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Finnex-Nano-Refugium-Aquarium-Light-Blue-LED-26-Watt-W-/200479921977?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=