My reduce, reuse, and recycle build
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Went to Aquamart today! Picked out a few beauties, and decided to update the thread.
The maxijet 900 puts out a LOT of flow, and it was pushing the sand around, so I had to move the flat base piece up to the front to deflect that a bit. So it's a bit cloudy because I was moving things around. I moved the halimeda from one 'coast' to the other, and placed a tiki god rock with green star polyp hair (they're not open because everything in there is kinda ticked off at the moment) toward the back. I may wind up downsizing that return pump if I see that it's too much flow. My main thing is that I don't want a 2nd pump mucking up the view.
Full tank shot.
Side view.
I picked up a pair of blue lined pipefish. They were really tough to get a good pic of, because they're cruising the tank constantly.
Lookit what hitch hiked its way into my tank! I saw two of them. Hopefully these lil guys will reproduce a bunch...
... because today I got a harlequin shrimp! One of the biggest I've seen.
The maxijet 900 puts out a LOT of flow, and it was pushing the sand around, so I had to move the flat base piece up to the front to deflect that a bit. So it's a bit cloudy because I was moving things around. I moved the halimeda from one 'coast' to the other, and placed a tiki god rock with green star polyp hair (they're not open because everything in there is kinda ticked off at the moment) toward the back. I may wind up downsizing that return pump if I see that it's too much flow. My main thing is that I don't want a 2nd pump mucking up the view.
Full tank shot.
Side view.
I picked up a pair of blue lined pipefish. They were really tough to get a good pic of, because they're cruising the tank constantly.
Lookit what hitch hiked its way into my tank! I saw two of them. Hopefully these lil guys will reproduce a bunch...
... because today I got a harlequin shrimp! One of the biggest I've seen.
Thanks! So do I- which is kinda shocking, since I'm a 'go big or go home' kinda girl most of the time.
This past weekend I picked up a wood cabinet for $25, which I plan on using as a stand for it. I'll be sanding that down and staining it tomorrow. Then I'll seal the heck out of the top of it. I'm worried about ruining the bookcase that it's sitting on at the moment.
This past weekend I picked up a wood cabinet for $25, which I plan on using as a stand for it. I'll be sanding that down and staining it tomorrow. Then I'll seal the heck out of the top of it. I'm worried about ruining the bookcase that it's sitting on at the moment.
That'd be cool, Jerry! I'd happily take any of those lil stars you round up. And now you've got me wondering where I can get 2 single-polyp blastos... and how to keep them from propagating... hmmm. I'm thinking that I'm going to have to keep trimming the green star polyps, which is fine by me, because part of my mission with this tank is to DBTC as much as possible out of it.
Got the cabinet sanded today...
and then I stained it for fun.
I'm going to decide tomorrow if I want to give it another couple of coats to darken it up, or if I'll just urethane it and call it good.
And I picked up a rose bubble tip nem from Aquatic Art for it today, so I moved Steal from QT into his new home. Lights are out at the moment, but I'll get a pic tomorrow when they're on.
On another note, the tiny little pipefish that I raced all over town to find Tigger pods for... they eat frozen mysis shrimp. I kid you not.
and then I stained it for fun.
I'm going to decide tomorrow if I want to give it another couple of coats to darken it up, or if I'll just urethane it and call it good.
And I picked up a rose bubble tip nem from Aquatic Art for it today, so I moved Steal from QT into his new home. Lights are out at the moment, but I'll get a pic tomorrow when they're on.
On another note, the tiny little pipefish that I raced all over town to find Tigger pods for... they eat frozen mysis shrimp. I kid you not.
