Turtle's Fairy Tale

[SashimiTurtle]

Time for a Turtle road trip to Pensacola, FL?

A pintail is on my fish list, and $100 is tempting, but I'm pretty sure it would probably be cheaper to buy the $300 supermale from LADD... 14-16mpg on the interstate and diesel is around $3.00 a gallon at the truck stops. I got it for $2.86 in town today(pump stopped me at $75 right before the tank was all the way full) but that's the cheapest I've seen around. I have no idea what fuel costs on the way, it's never cheaper tho.

It's like how I get coral shipped over night from Charleston, two hours away. $25 for FedEx or $40 in my truck plus four hours of drive time. That's four hours I can sit on the couch in my pjs.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Chaeto!!!

Oh, and Smiley... yep, coraline grows under a 9w LED. Slowly, but it grows.

This setup is so simple its almost fool proof. Just have to remember to manually top off. Its my quarantine tank, when I have fish that need to be quarantined. Its really dirty right now, loose chaeto and a little sand, rock dust and detritus on the bottom. The filtration is a cheap suction cup in tank power filter with just a mechanical filter with carbon thats about 3 months old or so, and a sponge filter. Chaeto does all the work, really. I feed a pinch of pellet food a day. Honestly I was just hoping to keep the chaeto from dying too fast, instead its growing super dense and dark green.

The coral beauty... so beautiful I wish I could keep it, but it nips sps. Good bye polyp extension, and most likely will more than just nip on montipora. I really wish this one turned out to be reef safe. Pictures do it no justice, when she hits the light the blue is the prettiest cobalt you've ever seen and the edges of her fins are trimmed in a slighty lighter blue.

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[najer]

Nice, I would gently tease the cheato apart a bit, make it 25 - 50% bigger, let the water and light in a bit more. ;)

 

[Brew12]

Just catching up after a weeks vacation with no internet access. Everything is looking great! I was worried I would come back to find another disaster.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

a weeks vacation with no internet access.

A whole week with no internet? :eek: How did you survive?

 

[Brew12]

A whole week with no internet? :eek: How did you survive?

Very well, thank you! ;)

 

[hwntunda]

Hahaha, hopefully he doesn't come for an extended visit. I feel he has left from my residence tho. Got all kinds of warm fuzzies about the tank right now. I was iffy for the first week, but we're golden now. Almost at week number two being set up and everything is still level. The monti and two stylos are happy as can be, great color and crazy PE.

Only thing I NEED now is a replacement fuge light before I start growing algae in the wrong places. I'm thinking of the Kessil H80. I still have the H380, but without a dimmer switch it's just way to powerful for my refugium size. It needs to be spread over an area the size of my whole sump...

Not interested in the chaetomax? I get good growth from it without breaking the bank. It mounts similar to the eshopps but higher with a nice even spread. Unless that’s too much twinning...lol

 

[Scurvy]

A week without internet/phone sounds like heaven to me! Welcome back Brew!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Not interested in the chaetomax? I get good growth from it without breaking the bank. It mounts similar to the eshopps but higher with a nice even spread. Unless that’s too much twinning...lol

Ball already rolling on the H80... I was going to get that light for the little nano I had, but I sold the tank.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

No filter, no phone adjustment, super smurf photos... but my SPS is happy!

 

[Scurvy]

Hip hip hooray!

 

[Scurvy]

Not interested in the chaetomax?

Is that the newer IM light? I had the older all white one which did well too.

 

[hwntunda]

Is that the newer IM light? I had the older all white one which did well too.

This the version I’m using, and a pic in a trigger 20, water level is 8” but when I turn return off, it’s about 2” above the water and could still raise about 1/2”

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai...ahUKEwiLwaPYi6LcAhVHsFQKHbUVC10Qwg8IKQ&adurl=

 

[najer]

Ok, where are the turtles, I got a new camera today, we are back in the spam game! ;)

DSC_0005 by sshipuk, on Flickr

 

[Sipec]

Glad to see everything looking good.
Are you still looking for a name for the shrimp? Cause Bowser might work

 

[Sipec]

Or rancor

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Ok, where are the turtles, I got a new camera today, we are back in the spam game! ;)

DSC_0005 by sshipuk, on Flickr

Night shift... but we're on our week break now.

Hey @najer, got PE?

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[Scurvy]

Yummy!

 

[Fudsey]

How's the trachy??

:p:p

 

[siggy]

How's the trachy??

:p:p

dang