Red_Beard's 75 Tank Build

[Red_Beard]

All is calm on the baby front... for the next 10 minutes at least. We had our first well baby follow up yesterday and he is healthy as an ox! (other than the broken clavicle, which is healing nicely)
Loafing around the house, running the kids all over the place, running the wife's errands, and running low on sleep has been á l'ordre du jour :)
Anyhow. I have been staring at my tank an noticing it is need of some pruning! The fire engine stings and dominates that green monty, so it went full medieval and decided to implement some seige warfare tactics:

Needs a 'circumcision' to free up that base.

I refilled my salt water drum and have it mixing up, still need to dial it in to 1.026-27. I want to get some zoas from the zoa heap lined out in a proper zoa island (ive had an Aqua Rocks frag island soaking in the sump for a month or so now, should be ready to go! (For anyone in the market, the frag rack I got from them has been awesome, highly recommend!) Not sure how far i will get today, but lets find out!

 

[That Crusso Kid]

All is calm on the baby front... for the next 10 minutes at least. We had our first well baby follow up yesterday and he is healthy as an ox! (other than the broken clavicle, which is healing nicely)
Loafing around the house, running the kids all over the place, running the wife's errands, and running low on sleep has been á l'ordre du jour :)
Anyhow. I have been staring at my tank an noticing it is need of some pruning! The fire engine stings and dominates that green monty, so it went full medieval and decided to implement some seige warfare tactics:

Needs a 'circumcision' to free up that base.

I refilled my salt water drum and have it mixing up, still need to dial it in to 1.026-27. I want to get some zoas from the zoa heap lined out in a proper zoa island (ive had an Aqua Rocks frag island soaking in the sump for a month or so now, should be ready to go! (For anyone in the market, the frag rack I got from them has been awesome, highly recommend!) Not sure how far i will get today, but lets find out!

Happy to hear Finn is like his dad.

Zoa Island? Yes.

Look at you throwin' around French sayings and all trying to convince us your sophisticated.

 

[Red_Beard]

Lol, you know me, 'bout as fancy as a penguin with a monocle : )

I did get that plate trimmed up. I ended up tossing a ton of hammer skeleton too to make room for that zoa island, and pruned some of my sticks, but that's a far as i got in my tank.
I cleaned a bunch of gha off the walls and equipment in my daughter's tank and we ran to petco (the only lfs within 2 hours of here, which has a surprisingly good and healthy fish selection) to see if we could find a lawnmower blenny and some snails. No dice. We did however run into a nice gentleman and his wife looking at the saltwater fish. He and i got to talking and long story shorterish they popped over later and i gave them 2 of the nems I still had in that specimen container stuck to the glass. I still have 2, which I am going to see if I can give to the hospital. That and maybe one of those rocks covered in AOG zoas. The hospital tank was nice and clean, but pretty barren. One of the dudes i work with knows the guy in charge of maintaining it, I'm going to hit him up for his number.