Tulipgirl's Tank

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Welcome to r2r. Tank looks really good. Keep it up

 

[revsgirl]

Looking good! Thanks for sharing!


Chasing the Dream Giver, not the dream! Tonya

 

[tulipgirl]

Thanks!

 

[HVani]

Don't worry about touching the anemones :). I work at a LFS and I always handle anemones. They are pretty harmless. They may feel sticky but don't sting hard enough to hurt.

Also welcome :). I remember you from NR


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[tulipgirl]

hey!!! :) I feel afraid to touch them, ha ha! And yes.

 

[salmonshutters]

Welcome from Wisconsin!!!

 

[tulipgirl]

I'm in Wisconsin :)

 

[tulipgirl]

Well the person I was giving the one condy to, isn't going to be happy. It hasn't looked very good the past 2 days, wont open, and this morning it wasn't attached, was upside down, shedding white slimey crap, tentacles sucked in, brown crap on the bottom... I have it in a cup now for fear of it killing the tank when it dies. Must just not have been happy, or hermit irritated it enough, who knows. The other one is super happy, grabs the shrimp I give it, still is a bit transparent but i'll take time and feeding because I don't have MH or LED's, but he's always open, now if i can only keep the hermit away from him when i feed. I hate hermits... I loved them until they like to take off polyps of zoas I have, or take off the glued mushroom.. yeah.. *******s.

 

[tulipgirl]

Heres the more happy one. theres a hole in the middle of the rock its under, it was there but decided it wanted to go INSIDE instead :P

 

[neuwave]

Hey tulipgirl, I saw your other post about taking your tank was down. Glad it's still up and running. :)

 

[tulipgirl]

Thanks. Yes it's still here, conveniently I got a sizeable tax check, thank God for being way below the poverty line lol, so I bought new bulbs and a RODI unit, which helped alot.

 

[cdness]

Looking nice!

 

[tulipgirl]

Why thanks! I took a few more photos, will post later. Anyone know a cheap tool that has razor blade like blades that I can scrape the green crap off the glass with, without using a razor black & my arm.. I have a tool thats metal on the end but it's not sharp enough so doesn't get the green crap.

 

[cdness]

Well I have tried a few different scrapers both cheap and expensive. I always come back to this little handy tool:

Easy Blade Algae Scraper Replacement Blades (10 pack) - Bulk Reef Supply

It has good leverage, replaceable blades, and it was really cheap compared to the larger ones. Get two and put one on a mag float for hard to reach areas of the tank.

I have the kent scraper and to be honest I don't use it anymore. It is a pain in the read to get the right amount of leverage and angle to scrape right. It is build well, but it just doesn't work when you need to have your hands wedged between lights and the top of the tank... If I had an open top maybe it would have worked better.

 

[tulipgirl]

And it scrapes well? Thanks!!

 

[LVE]

Looks good

 

[tulipgirl]

My babies, Marjani on the top, Nameless who i call New Guy even though he's not new anymore, on the bottom. They're paired up, Marjani is about 11 months old or so, New guy is about 3 months younger than she is. Pic taken with my friends rebel

 

[tulipgirl]

The lone nem, i love the purple/pink inside. Took this after lights have been out for an hour.

I'm in love with this photo. Thank you cell phone camera. lol

 

[tulipgirl]

 

[tulipgirl]

I rescaped because im continually unhappy with my scape, ha ha! I cleaned the glass with a blade, cleaned the algae off the power heads, took like an hour to figure out the scape, had the fish and nem in a bucket so I could work easier while I was w/c-ing, took a while to get the male clown, he was a fast smart bugger. Boo wasn't even very hard to catch and shes like 1" long.. :neutral: Everything is lookin good now, I thought for sure everything would be mad, the mushroom is a wee bit angry but not too bad, put the nem back in the rock with the hole, which is on the top of the scape now as you see, so he can get more light and still can't reach others, glued down the coral sans plugs finally, hoping I like it.. :S I need a new filter, im sick of this one. I want a really good, but affordable one, here is a few photos during the change & before.