Braille 90 build

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1.5 gallon

 

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Got the best price on a red hornet zoa colony this weekend $12.99 a for 23 polyp rock. We bought some other pieces too but I think they are all going in the 75 gallon.

Slippery Rock Corals

Jul. 12, 2014 at 2:46pm 84° F $204.50​ 10 Items Receipt #YBKW Salt (Reef Crystals - 200g) $45.00 Filter Bags & Media (Phosban/Carbon per cup) × 2 ($4.99 ea.) $9.98 2 Coral 24.99 (One) × 5 ($24.99 ea.) pavona, acan, brain, duncan, purple Medusa chalice $124.95 a Frag Deals (Free Frag) acan $0.00 a Frag Deals (Regular Frag) red hornet zoanthids $12.99 Subtotal $192.92 PA Sales Tax (6%) $11.58 Total $204.50

 

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my red hornets... theyre waiting in the frag tank til I finish their new home :becky:

 

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Welcome to the contest!

 

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So real quick background on our family... My son was born blind, so we have been learning braille.
One day I was staring at my zoa tank and looking for "braille letters", kind of like when you stare up at clouds and find shapes and stuff...lol.
So that gave me the idea to (attempt to) frag single polyps and glue them together to create braille cells...

these are the braille cells for "reef"
fingers crossed!

I also added some ricordea mushrooms which are nice and bumpy lol:nerd:

 

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fragged a few zoas from my zoa tank... "e"

is done in green bay packers and "f"

is done in green crossetts (i think thats what they are). it was a little tricky and they got glued on a little sidways....but they are opening

 

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Decided to add the acans we bought a few weeks ago... the receipt is in my second post... one was 24.99 the other was a free frag... not sure if it counts as free or if I need to use ***... either way they make a nice addition to the over all tank :nod:
Ill have to sit down and do the math....

 

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ok... quick run down of the tank...
Its a 1.5gal betta tank....its been on the shelf for a LONNGG time (haven't done freshwater in a while). We're using a HOB filter for flow and mangroves. Sand and rock came from my 75gallon so they were already cycled.

2x Greenbay packer zoas- $10each (TBA)
3x Green zoas-$5ea (TBA)
Acan1 $24.99
Acan2 (free frag) (TBA)
Fiji toadstool (TBA)
Monti digi- (TBA)
Red hornet zoas $24.99
Mangrove $15
Ricordea Florida x 3 $20each
Ricordea yuma x 2 $30ea

 

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2x Greenbay packer zoas- $10each (TBA)
3x Green zoas-$5ea (TBA)
Acan1 $24.99
Acan2 (free frag) (TBA)
Fiji toadstool (TBA)
Monti digi- (TBA)
Red hornet zoas $24.99
Mangrove $15
Ricordea Florida x 3 $20each
Ricordea yuma x 2 $30ea

Received an email on FMV and am now editing my livestock costs:

2x Greenbay packer zoas- $3ea total= $6
3x Green zoas-$2ea total= $6
Acan1 $24.99 total= rounding up^ $25
Acan2 (free frag) three heads $5ea = $15
Fiji toadstool $20
Monti digi- $30
Red hornet zoas $24.99= round up^ $25
Mangrove $15 $15
Ricordea Florida x 3 $20each $60
Ricordea yuma x 2 $30ea $60
TOTAL LIVESTOCK SO FAR= $262:becky:

 

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LOL soooo... miss read my email... my Acan2 was free with purchase and I DO HAVE the receipt to prove that, sooo Acan2 = $0 making my total so far $247 :wink:

 

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so three little kenya trees popped up... two 1/2 inch ones right on top of my rock and the 1 inch one is hiding in the back... not sure yet if Im going to keep them or not, depends on what the FMV is... if its not much they can stay.

Also added my "r"

used clementine zoas (i think that's their name).


And lastly we had a bunch of blue/purple mushrooms in our zoa tank... they're covering one of the rocks... so we removed some of the tiny baby ones and stuck them in an old coral skeleton along with a tiny ricordea yuma... waiting to hear back on the FMV on the new additions...

 

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My son was in the hospital so the tank was neglected this past week... have to do a water change and what not... pressed for time though.. poor kiddo is in some pain, just trying to keep him as happy as possible.

 

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obviously that's the priority so sorry to hear about the pain and need for the hospital. A special prayer for your son will go out today

 

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Well my son is home and as well as can be expected after surgery... poor kid is a real trooper.

My little pico tank had quite the salinity spike though and my monti digi is done for every thing else seems to be doing okay now... Also my husband bought a small eagle eye colony at petco back on the 5th... he wanted to frag it so its in his frag tank and he s giving me the larger piece ... receipt is below...$12.99

 

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2x Greenbay packer zoas- $3ea total= $6
3x Green zoas-$2ea total= $6
Acan1 $24.99 total= rounding up^ $25
Acan2 (free frag) three heads $FREE $0
Fiji toadstool $20
Monti digi- $30 died during salinity spike
Red hornet zoas $24.99= round up^ $25
Mangrove $15 (only one in the display the rest are in the HOB filter
Ricordea Florida x 3 $20each $60
Ricordea yuma x 2 $30ea $60
baby yuma 1/2inch $20
Clementine zoas x4 $20 each $80
3 tiny kenya trees $20
5 baby blue mushrooms (1/2 inch) $25
Eagle eye zoa colony $13
2x Spring time zoas (TBA) estimating $5 ea ... $10
Blasto merletti 3 heads $5/head... $15
Chaeto... TBA... $0 ???
Total so far...
$430...


Bought a cheap Chinese LED light to replace the HOT5s its not too shabby...
I also did two 50% water changes this past week and added some more mangroves to the HOB filter...
My Monti digi started to die when we were at the hospital and it was too late to save it so I stuck some chaeto on it and glued my free Acan to it...
then I acclimated the eagle eyes that we fragged from petco. and the blasto ( I stole it from my 75 gallon... our urchin knocked it off weeks ago and I never glued it back on so... now its in the little tank )
I think Im done... with a grand total of $430...

 

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going to cut back the chaeto and do a 50% water change later today ( Ive been doing really small ones every other day, just a cup or two). Ill post pics later... although nothing has changed since last time...

 

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Quick night shot...really blued