Jack-the-reefer

Progress! 

It's pretty much all zoas and a few mushrooms. Most of which took from my other tanks. 

I'm almost thinking it's a baby sea hare. It's cruising around the half gallon tank grazing. It's not showing any interest in the corals. 

Does anyone know what this is? It's about 3/4" long. 

5 hours ago, badxgillen said:

If you will be at the meeting at Upscales this weekend I can grab you some moss.

I can stop by while I'm out servicing tanks. 

Thanks!

Hey Bert. 

I'd love a 20$ frag of the Fiji yellow leather. I can pick it up at the meeting on Sunday. 

Not sure if many of you keep freshwater tanks, but I'm looking for some Java moss. Does anyone close to Vancouver have some they  want to get rid of?

Thanks guys.

He definitely wasn't underfed. These fish will actually keep eating, whether they need it or not, if food is available. If they overeat too much, the food decomposes in their stomach faster than they can digest it. This results in a gas bubble that often kills them. 

I knew the shrimp was a gonner eventually, just thought he would wait a while. 

They don't deal with stress all that well. The are actually surprisingly delicate little fish considering they look like the kraken. 

I found grumbledore dead today. The little dummy tried to eat a fire shrimp that was bigger than him a few days ago. He threw the shrimp up yesterday, but I think it was too much stress for him. 

Bummer. 

It's all up and running! Now I just need to figure out what to use for a light. I was thinking a 6 bulb ATI power module, I'm afraid that's going to be overkill though. 

Getting closer! Just a little sanding and paint to get the stand finished. 

2 hours ago, albertareef said:

I love your micro projects!  Too bad the tidepool one didn't work out.

Thanks! The tidepool is going to get resurrected one of these days. 

I got the stand started yesterday. I still need to get some trim on it and clean it up before painting, but I'm getting there. 

It's in two pieces so I can just pull the front section off to get to the sump. 

I got it running today. I think I'm going to pull the drain out and make it bigger though. I have to have the pump cranked down to barely a trickle or else it's going to overflow. 

3 hours ago, lewisriverfisherman said:

Hey Jack any updates on this here little feller?

Thanks for asking! I always forget how terrible I am at updating threads. 

He's doing great though. He's been eating frozen consistently for about a month now. His name is grumbledore, and he's the most handsome guy in the house. 

Got it drilled, painted, and glued in the "bulkheads" over the past few days. I ended up using some random plumbing parts I found at home depot and modifying them to work for what I need. 

I'll see if it holds water tomorrow. Then I'll glue the rock wall in place. 

1 hour ago, viper55 said:

How bout this jack  just a little silicone to seal threads and your good 

 

That's actually probably what I'll end up with. I was kind of thinking of just using an aqua lifter pump anyway. 

26 minutes ago, TheClark said:

Hey look at this, 1/4" uniseal:

 

https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=89939

 

Oooo! That's a good idea!

I think the gem tang at cuttlefish would look really good in this. It'll probably be zoas and sexy shrimp. 

1 minute ago, TheClark said:

Hmmm. good point.  What size are you going to run?  maybe drill and silicone?  

I'm not totally sure yet. Maybe 1/4" - 1/2" max. 

I don't think they make bulkheads tiny enough for what I need. Anyone have any good ideas? 

I'm a little bored tonight after work, so this happened. 

The vase holds around 1/2 gallon. I'm seriously considering drilling a few holes  in this and putting a tiny sump on it. I don't want to have to worry about trying to hide a pump or heater in the display. The plan is to silicone the rock to the back wall. That way, I can just pick the while thing up and dump it out for a water change. 

That's all for now. 

Does anyone have a canister filter they want to sell for cheap? Doesn't need to be big or fancy, as long as it works. 

I have a few things that I need to get rid of since I'm too lazy to test and dose my tank. 

Kent tech m- 64oz bottle, basically full. 

Reef fusion alk- 34oz bottle, just over half full. 

Reef fusion ca- 17oz little, maybe 1/4 full. 

4" cloth filter sock  

Take all or one. I don't care. 

I'm in Vancouver. 

My turkey looked cold, so I made it a bacon blanket. 

Happy holidays everyone!

3 hours ago, spectra said:

So how is it going ?

So far so good! Took his first meal of frozen food off the tweezers last week. 

That sucks! 

Can you get your money back and still keep it? We can fix it, then you get a free rock.