There's something fishy about this build...

[Nate Chalk]

You could be, but you choose not to hang out with us.

That's true. I sorta fell of the deep end. My bad. You could say I planked.

 

[Fish Styx]

That's true. I sorta fell of the deep end. My bad. You could say I planked.

Welcome back, Heathen.

 

[Fish Styx]

You could say I planked.

Also

 

[Nate Chalk]

Also

Ty .

 

[Slocke]

@tbrown I highly doubt you randomly got your mom on Wikipedia.

 

[Stang67]

Where's your entry @Fish Styx ?
If you need inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Done.

 

[Fish Styx]

Ahem...

Post in thread '$1,000 in PRIZES!!! ESHOPPS Mariner of the Month: May Edition – Enter Now! ' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/1...-edition-–-enter-now-🌊🏆.1106655/post-13517878

The deed is done.

 

[Anna K]

Ahem...

Post in thread '$1,000 in PRIZES!!! ESHOPPS Mariner of the Month: May Edition – Enter Now! ' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/1-000-in-prizes-eshopps-mariner-of-the-month-may-edition-–-enter-now-.1106655/post-13517878

The deed is done.

Who did your neon sign or is that something I'm gonna have to go hunt in your thread?

 

[Fish Styx]

Who did your neon sign or is that something I'm gonna have to go hunt in your thread?

I had them made by an Amazon seller.

 

[Red_Beard]

Ahem...

Post in thread '$1,000 in PRIZES!!! ESHOPPS Mariner of the Month: May Edition – Enter Now! ' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/1-000-in-prizes-eshopps-mariner-of-the-month-may-edition-–-enter-now-.1106655/post-13517878

The deed is done.

You lost me towards the middle, but you really pulled me back in at the end! Good to put a face to the voice in my head that reads your posts!

 

[Slocke]

The people that I would like to nominate have already been nominated, or are already entered. While I would hate to run against them, I suppose I will accept my nomination and toss my hat into the ring.

Let this serve as my official entry.

I suppose now you'll be wanting to see my ugly mug, eh? Here - this is the face behind all of the shenanigans, and that of my better half, The Dainty Dictator:

Let's see: what else? Oh, yeah- my tank. My system's name is Fish Styx's Fishy Stick Tank. Here you go:

I like Tangs and Acros, in that order; and orange. I really like orange. If you'd like to check it out, here is a link to my build journal, The House of Orange. No relationship with The Netherlands. Well, maybe my love for Amsterdam, but that is a story for another day. I digress...

Here's that link I mentioned. Bring an appetite for chaos and make yourself at home with the #Heathens :

Thread 'The House of Orange' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/the-house-of-orange.965979/

I also have some (poorly managed) social media if you wanted to follow along for some pretty pics, videos, and additional reef-related shenanigans.

You can find me on IG and YT as @Fishstyx_reef.

https://youtube.com/@fishstyx_reef?si=TCXFu40OlKNA49ir
To answer this month's question we must look at what my greatest inspiration is, not who; and that would undoubtedly have to be The Brexbach.

"But, Uncle Fish Styx, what is The Brexbach?"

Fear not, nephew, I'ma learns 'ya real good:

Wikipedia tells us that The Brexbach is a river, just under 22 km long, and an orographically left-handed tributary of the Saynbach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Brexbach is formed by the uniting of the Hinterster Bach and Vorderster Bach in the Grenzhausen municipal forest east of Hohr-Grenzhausen. Many consider the Hinterster Bach simply as the name for the upper reaches of The Brexbach.

From the confluence of its two headstreams by some fish ponds, the Brexbach initially runs along the upper edge of the municipality of Höhr-Grenzhausen. In the upper Brexbach valley there was once a mustard mill (Senfmühle), which burned down in 1914 - a memorial stone marks the spot - and other mills: the Farbmühle, Niesmühle and the Kühnsmühle, none of which are used as mills any longer.

The Brexbach next reaches the village of Grenzau (a district of Höhr-Grenzhausen) and flows through it below Grenzau Castle. Grenzau station is the terminus for the Brexbach Valley Railway, a line that closed passenger services in 1989 and goods trains in 1994, but which partly reopened in 2009 as a heritage railway.

Parallel to the historical railway bed runs the 16-kilometre-long (9.9 mi) Brexbach Gorge Way (Brexbachschluchtweg including the Wäller-Tour and Saynsteig paths), a very varied and, in places, challenging, hiking trail along steep and thickly wooded hillsides. It reaches the Brexbach Valley Pathfinder Camp (Pfadfindercamp Brexbachtal) in a meadow bottom; for three kilometres there are camping places, some with refuge huts, and a camp chapel.

The lower reaches of the Brexbach run past the former Abbey of Sayn, flow through the village of Sayn below Sayn Castle immediately next to the old defensive wall, before emptying into the Saynbach in the park of Schloss Sayn. The Saynbach discharges into the Rhine in the area of Bendorf harbour.

I find that the humble Brexbach's journey through the German countryside is a lot like ours as aquarists. We have our ups and downs, our trials and tribulations, and at times our journey can be quite tumultuous. Yet, if you persevere, you will bear witness to so many beautiful things along the way. It is, after all, the journey that matters the most; not the destination.

Namaste

Fixed!
Let's see how long it takes to find my fix

 

[Fish Styx]

You lost me towards the middle, but you really pulled me back in at the end! Good to put a face to the voice in my head that reads your posts!

What, you don't like this image?

 

[Fish Styx]

Fixed!
Let's see how long it takes to find my fix

You edited a version that was mid edit. Go see if it is still there.

 

[Red_Beard]

What, you don't like this image?

That image does fit the voice , but with it, your posts always read like a gritty crime novel, where we are joing our jaded protagonist, an over worked/coffeed/stressed under appreciated/slept detective as he is walking up to the latest crime scene and with a deep smoky voice and in a slightly brooklyn accent demands - "What do we got, lu?"

In one sentance, no final punctuation too.

 

[Fish Styx]

That image does fit the voice , but with it, your posts always read like a gritty crime novel, where we are joing our jaded protagonist, an over worked/coffeed/stressed under appreciated/slept detective as he is walking up to the latest crime scene and with a deep smoky voice and in a slightly brooklyn accent demands - "What do we got, lu?"

In one sentance, no final punctuation too.

This pleases us.

 

[Slocke]

You edited a version that was mid edit. Go see if it is still there.

It’s still there

 

[Fish Styx]

It’s still there

Did you correct a misspelled German word?

 

[Slocke]

Did you correct a misspelled German word?

I edited an image

 

[Fish Styx]

I edited an image

You reversed them

 

[Slocke]

You reversed them

I give up