FishFace NJ build

[fishface NJ]

Howdy!!! How is everyone? I was having R2R separation anxiety. I left for our condo in Cape Coral Florida on Tuesday night. My youngest gets moved into her dorm on Sunday. She will be a freshman. She was all hung-ho to attend college in FL until Wednesday morning and is having anxiety from being so far away from home (NJ). She’ll be in Tallahassee, FL which has no direct flights from Newark NJ, Kennedy airport, LaGuardia or Philly. Tallahassee is located in the northern west FL and takes 6 hours with connection(s) to Newark airport. Our FL condo is 8 hours drive southwest from the college. Hopefully her anxiety stops soon.

In other news…my boys back home in NJ told me my AluFab stand for my new 150g has arrived. I need to get the stand put together before the 3 boys leave for college. I need their muscles. I’ll have 3 days to put the stand together, and get them packed for college.

Fun times!!!!

 

[fishface NJ]

Started yesterday to slowly move some rock out of the 40b. I have about 90-100 lbs of live rock between the DT and the sump. I didn’t see any brittle worms while handling the rock yesterday…with gloves of course. This morning I woke to this sight. Brown areas are worms

 

[fishface NJ]

How do I get rid of the worms that are visible without wasting 25 gallons of new salt water? If I suck them out with a return pump will the impeller get clogged?

 

[Evil1]

Suck em out with a turkey baster. Frankly my tank has lots of them. Although ugly they are excellent CUC so I just cull every now and again to keep population down.

 

[redfishbluefish]

Do the old stocking trap thing.....I'm dating myself, pantyhose thing! Put some nice food in a pantyhose leg and hold the open end open using whatever....a cut piece of a soda or water bottle works. The bristle worm crawls into the opening, into the panty hose and now, because of it's bristles getting caught in the pantyhose, can't get out.

 

[Pntbll687]

How do I get rid of the worms that are visible without wasting 25 gallons of new salt water? If I suck them out with a return pump will the impeller get clogged?

You could get a siphon like the use on toilets. Something like this

Siphon Drum Pump S-17128 - Uline

Dispense mild corrosives, detergents, light oils and waxes. Empty a 55-gallon drum in 8 minutes. 4' discharge tube. Polyethylene construction. Suction tube reaches 34" below drum lid. Trim to fit any drum. Includes adapter to fit 2" drum openings. FDA compliant. ULINE offers over 43,000 boxes...

www.uline.com

 

[tharbin]

How do I get rid of the worms that are visible without wasting 25 gallons of new salt water? If I suck them out with a return pump will the impeller get clogged?

Maybe a little low tech but I've always just used long tweezers. If you check every few hours you get most of them, then the stocking trap works really well for get the rest of them.

 

[fishface NJ]

Maybe a little low tech but I've always just used long tweezers. If you check every few hours you get most of them, then the stocking trap works really well for get the rest of them.

there are around 3 hundred on the bottom doing the macarena

 

[tharbin]

there are around 3 hundred on the bottom doing the macarena

I'd say that is about average. I pulled at least that many out of a 40 breeder one day. You get into a rhythm and it is kind of satisfying. It doesn't take as long as it seems it would.

 

[Evil1]

Your gona need a bigger turkey baster!

 

[fishface NJ]

Thanks guys!

 

[tbrown]

+1 turkey baster, squirt through a net or something and you can reuse the water...

 

[fishface NJ]

Those little nasty buggers are gone from 10 lbs. of rock. I have about 80 more lbs. to take out of the DT and sump still. Hope to get that done by tomorrow. If not then it will have to wait until next week. Wednesday 5:00 AM I'm headed to Newark airport to Fort Myers airport. It's parents weekend already at my daughter's university. I feel like I was just there.

I just got notifications that @premiumaquatics delivery of my ATI T5 hanging kit has arrived.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thats a zoo full of them.... yikes

 

[vetteguy53081]

Utilize a large fine net and flush them

 

[fishface NJ]

We got to Cape Coral home on Wednesday. Yesterday we drove north 8 hours FSU. I got tackled by a student playing catch. I fractured my foot.

Today is frat parties before the game. The first frat has the largest house in the country.

 

[tbrown]

We got to Cape Coral home on Wednesday. Yesterday we drove north 8 hours FSU. I got tackled by a student playing catch. I fractured my foot.

Today is frat parties before the game. The first frat has the largest house in the country.

Sorry to hear about the foot! Are you in a boot or are they going to cast it?

 

[That Crusso Kid]

We got to Cape Coral home on Wednesday. Yesterday we drove north 8 hours FSU. I got tackled by a student playing catch. I fractured my foot.

Today is frat parties before the game. The first frat has the largest house in the country.

That’s a bummer about the foot. Sending healing vibes.

 

[fishface NJ]

Sorry to hear about the foot! Are you in a boot or are they going to cast it?

In a boot. They wanted to cast but I pleaded for the boot. I’ll have my Dr look at it when I get back to NJ

 

[tbrown]

In a boot. They wanted to cast but I pleaded for the boot. I’ll have my Dr look at it when I get back to NJ

Hopefully it's not too much pain. Those boots tend to help a lot.