CrabbyCrabs

I know it's far but obsessions in Gresham has some monster snails usually.

I can pay a small consultation fee if anyone can setup a checklist, in order, that I can follow and go over a plan of action. And maybe help when that time comes. Planning on moving tanks mid July. That gives me roughly 2-3 weeks to set up new tanks and cycle them.

Best way to limit a cycle? Last time I moved there was none but it was a local move and I added biospira just in case. I do have a very large rbta I would like to not kill, along with everything else of course. I will put a few pieces of filter foam in back sump to collect more bacteria.

Ok. A few questions to clarify. I have a new reefer 350 and a used reefer 170 I can setup in the next 2 weeks at new location. Only problem is.... I will be gone for several days as I make trips back and forth. My current tanks are a max nano and nuvo 20. The max nano has a crack and don't expect it to live through the move, why I picked up a used 170. I do have a brand new 150 gallon trough. I have new sand I can add to both and toss old save a cup to help establish bacteria. So I fill new tanks with sand/water. What about rock? I do have new life rock that's been cycling and new life rock that's dry. I want to reuse my current rock as a lot of coral are growing on them. Advice? Do I set up the trough with the new or old water to float everything in? Or do I float in the new tanks? I will be using the same salt brand mixed to the same salinity so parameters should be close since I do 25% weekly water changes now. Do I cycle new tanks with Dr Tim's ammonia or? Do I just use new life rock temporarily until it's cycled then remove what I don't want when I put my old rock in? Any ideas on where to get safe heavy duty bags for transporting/acclimating my current rock? I have plenty for the fish and frags just not the big pieces of rock. Are any coolers safe that I can just partially fill with the old saltwater and put rocks directly in without bagging them? They always smell like plastic and worry about leaching chemicals. I have no friends that can help. Just my girlfriend and I moving. I will be buying an rodi. Since no saltwater stores where we are going. Thoughts on the best one. The city water is well, with no chloramine or chlorine added. Seems very hard according to the water report. Spectrapure won't return my calls. Was thinking of the 6 stage megamax cap unit.

I'm moving out of state. About an 8 or so hour drive away. Any tips on doing it without killing everything? Thinking of bagging everything separately, floating in preheated Coleman coolers or similar. Drain tank water into food safe buckets, same with a majority of sand. Have fresh rodi and saltwater ready at new location. Break down tanks. Bag live rocks in tank water and float in coolers. Thinking one cooler for livestock and one for tank sand and live rock. So 4 coolers total, 2 per tank, they are only 20 gallon tanks. Move. Set up tanks with half old water, add live rock/old sand, big bottle of biospira, fish, coral, etc and pray? Any advice would be appreciated.

Of the first gens, I like the 67. Wing windows and all. 69 RS/ss is nice with the hidden headlights, but those vacuum pods to make them function suck. My fav is the 70 1/2 RS with the split bumper, or the formula firebird, or.........come on powerball

That is so true. The shop I was from charged a minimum of 5k for paint. Most cars were in the 15k range and the high end restos, just body work/rust repair and paint we're as high as 30k. I could never afford that. Heck, even just the supplies to do the work without hard parts is in the thousands range. Sand paper has become expensive for the good stuff. The real good filler is not cheap. Let alone the labor.

Ha, come to my house. They are everywhere in the rhododendron forest I have. I get some pretty big ones. And my favorite, the brown recluse, at least that's what they look like.

Yep, when I left the shop I had just got done doing a resto on a 69 charger rt. Sold for just over 100k I believe. It was a full rotisserie, like most we did. Dana 60, 440, don't remember if a/c or not. Was a nice car when done. Arrow straight 😄 I really hate how Mopar dashes are put together. What a pain. Worked with a guy that rode an old European bike, can't remember what it was, kinda obscure. From the 60s I believe. Like a Nash but in bike form. Was really neat, and I'm not a bike guy but have a place in my heart for most older stuff as it had style and class vs what junk we have today. It's what gave us the technology we have today.

I haven't been in the shop since I left the shop many years ago. LoL. That's where passion was when I was 18. Drove a 70 Chevelle my senior year of high school. Traded the body off in 02 I think for my rust free 70 elky. Had a roller 355 w/5spd then traded that off for a mild 454 w/th400. The real funny part. I was friends with a Clark county deputy, his house was close by and on the way to go anywhere. My friend and I made the street out front look like a dragstrip. I'd hit big block posi into 3rd every time I drove by. Red line 1st, red line 2nd, hold for a bit, let off brake, stand on it to keep redline, then a quick shift to 3rd as I hold it sideways. Man, those were the good old days. Although a 454 with an 850 Holley dp we're not enjoyable with the gas, especially with 3.73 gears considering I was young making almost minimum wage.

It was a dark/forest green cuda. Probably about 15 years ago. At the time it was a record breaker for a cuda at Barrett. I've done a lot of Camaros, Corvettes, chargers that have gone to those auctions. I was the resto guy in the shop, that's all I did for the most part. I did not do the paint. I did a lot of the rest though, lots and lots of rust repair. I was the one that had to block sand all restos 2-3 times. They were arrow straight coming out of that shop, I made sure of that. Iwas really good at fabbing window channels with the shrinker/stretcher and break. Lots of floor pans, quarters, wheel houses, etc... Having to weld doors/fenders etc... for the perfect gaps. Miss the work and cars, besides the dust/fumes/pay. I personally have a project 70 elky and my dad's 72 Chevelle after he passed. Some day I'll have a shop so I can get back to it on the side. It's nice to go relax in the shop, break out the welder, and start burning metal.

That's good to know since I've got a bucket I've had for about a year now.

It got docked for the paint being to nice without enough overspray like from the factory, go figure...

There's no other slow car like a Mopar? LoL.... Done a few cuda restos over the years. Most famous was a numbers correct 70 hemi that sold at Barrett Jackson for around a half million 😁

Yep, spent almost 10 years doing high end restorations. Mostly Mopar since those guys have the big $$$ and a lot of Camaros and Chevelle's. A lot of fiberglass repair work on vettes. Couple one off cars like a 70 superbird convertible. I'm a Chevy guy myself but have love for all classics. Chevy's are just designed better for the disassembly/assembly with a better suspension design, no stupid torsion bars.

I have two. One was given to me as 2 heads as a tester coral for my tank. It's now 5+ heads with a dozen baby heads starting

This is great. I have a question for anyone who uses reef crystals. Have you ever had bad batches? How often? Ever have issues keeping crabs, specifically emerald? I was told my emeralds die potentially because of low iodine, how true could this be. I hand feed them every day and they seem to live but I also switched to salinity awhile back. Before I couldn't keep them even when feeding them. They turn pale then die.

I think I'm going to keep it. Hopefully it lives through the move to Idaho. I picked up a reefer 170 so if this nano makes it through the move I'm going to leave the clowns and rbta in it and nothing else. And if they have babies again I'm going to try to keep a few to put in the other tank, minus the nem.

You definitely beat me. Mine has grown quite a bit and put on a bunch of small branches but nothing like that. I was just asking since I'm moving and some stuff will more than likely die in the process.

I support it for the most part, maybe go a step further and allow them to use the emergency lane? Especially in the summer heat, they don't have a/c. I'm surprised more don't get heat stroke.

Not sure that's a good thing with how crappy portlanders are at driving. I can see a few more deaths with lane splitting which will cause the morons in control of the state to further reduce speed limits and add more road diets. The people in charge of Portland want no cars, that is their ultimate goal.

This is one of many reasons I am leaving the state after 37 years.

Solar is not sustainable so called green energy based solely on the fact it is extremely toxic to manufacture and recycle. It also requires massive amounts of your so called carbon emissions to produce, everything has to be mined and trucked which requires massive amounts of diesel. If you really think we are number 2 in pollution, you are completely ignoring India. Like china, India has basically zero emissions controls. But go ahead, ship more manufacturing offshore to those countries in the name of saving our environment, which actually has the opposite effect, due to their non existent pollution controls. The ONLY real solution to environmental pollution, and one nobody wants to talk about, is population. The growing populationat its current rate, is not sustainable without killing the environment. PERIOD! Anybody that disagrees is completely lost. Another fact that people are lost on is co2, if co2 gets below about 250ppm, plant life pretty much stops growing, then everything dies. Millions of years ago the average temp and co2 concentration was much higher than now, and there were lush green forests, it was well over 2000ppm and the average earth temp was in the low 100's Harmful to humans, yes, but not plants. Also, 1 volcano erupting puts more co2, methane, particulate into the air than humans have in 100 years. I do agree we pollute too much(garbage patch in Pacific). Part of that is to be blamed on the so called tree huggers of the 70's and 80's that killed the logging industry in favor of so called plastic bags and shipping packages as they were recyclable, now look where we are at, going back to paper but it's not made here. It's made in China or Canada and once again shipped, by diesel, to the US. Remember, there are zero pollution controls on freight ships, anything crossing the ocean by boat is a huge source of pollution. When it comes to the great barrier reef, maybe a 100% ban on human activities within 100 miles will help, not sure. Maybe only allow scientist to study it. Same with all reefs, ban taking of fish, coral, rocks, period. Maybe it won't stop the decline but it definitely won't hurt. Without answering to the elephant in the room, population, then it's really not going to get better other than slowing the destruction. But that requires the whole earth to get involved, not just the U.S. and Germany.

Is that a nem in first pic?

At the minimum I'd get a brs unit. I'm going for a spectrapure 6 stage plus extra pre filters in my hydrologic 2 stage unit. I will be on unknown quality water and eventually spring/well. The brs units are not much more than the aquaticlife.