Turtle's Fairy Tale

[SashimiTurtle]

Those corals are beautiful, I love montis and acans but I don't have either. I'm going to possibly get some frags today so I'll post em' if I do!

Do you have a build thread so I can see them?

 

[Wuzzo]

I have a thread in nano tanks, let me get the link.

 

[Wuzzo]

Here is the link, https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/wuzzos-first-reef.466656/

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Here is the link, https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/wuzzos-first-reef.466656/

I'll check it out!

 

[Scurvy]

Figured out who has been kicking sand everywhere.... it's the meleagris leopard. Just saw it dive into the sand, kick crap everywhere, then swim off.

More than likely diving in for a snack.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Saw my brittle star for the first time since I added it to the tank. Good to know it's still alive.

Also something I've been working on, well planning. Today was the first day of working on it. I painted the back. It's Dark Walnut from Rust-oleum. Not a reef, but it's my thread I'll go off topic if I want. It'll be a freshwater tank, more specifically, an amazon blackwater aquarium. Low pH, low hardness, tannin stained water, driftwood, low light plants and amazon river fish. I'm planning on a few German ram cichlids, ember tetras and my emerald cory cats will move over as well. May add a few more emerald corys.

 

[Scurvy]

Cool, Ive always liked Bow Front tanks.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Cool, Ive always liked Bow Front tanks.

They make taking pictures of coral tricky... but for a freshwater tank, and only a Benjamin for the tank, stand, hood, filter and heater... I couldn't turn it down.

I'm not sure if I want to buy a bio wheel hob, or spend the extra money and get a canister filter and inline heater so everything is hidden in the stand. Either way, no carbon in a blackwater tank. The whole point is to have stained water.

 

[Scurvy]

Id go canister to keep a clean look but I know nothing really about fresh water.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Id go canister to keep a clean look but I know nothing really about fresh water.

I'm in the same boat. This is my first time getting serious about a freshwater tank other than just having a set up basically running itself... I've had several tanks, but I just threw fish and water in there and kinda let it go.

 

[Katrina71]

I'm hoping it was you with the winning ticket!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I'm hoping it was you with the winning ticket!

Unfortunately, you have to buy the ticket before they let you win. Altho, my chances of winning weren't that much worse than people who did. 1 in 300 million chance. ;Facepalm

 

[Katrina71]

I didn't buy one either.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I've been thinking since I rescaped the right side of the tank, and since I won that box of shapes rock...

I was going to save it for a future nano build, but I think I'll use it in the Fairy Tail. I added a bunch more room for some LPS on the right, I think I'll do the same on the left but add some, or all, of the new shapes rock.

That'll give me more hiding/sleeping places for more wrasse in the future while still keeping somewhat of an open scape. I'm getting an acclimation box for the future, not for Bonnie I won't be trying any new coral beauties. Not after she's 2-0 on the handling out severe beat downs to coral beauties. My brunneus is a bit territorial and took a few weeks before he let my mccoskers swim where he wanted. I have a few more fairies and maybe some flashers I want to add.

I'll probably work on that tomorrow after I get up from this night shift rotation. Soo... pictures tomorrow night, probably. ;Snaphappy

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Opened the box up before I left. Four nice sized rocks, two caves and two arches. Nothing is broken either! Yea, I think I'll use all of this, it's all way too big pieces for a IM Nuvo 10g.

Here is the large cave on the right, upside down. Pretty nice sized rocks.

 

[Katrina71]

I really like that piece.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I really like that piece.

From what I've seen, all of their "shapes" are very similar to each other. Caves, arches and rings. Another box should produce rocks of the same general shape. I think that smaller piece may be a ring. It's got a fairly large hole in the center.

I'm excited to play with them tomorrow and see what I can come up with. I need more space, I'm running out of room to put corals.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Oh, this is why I bought those no name acans from Jason Fox... feeders for days. He said they stay like that almost all day in his tank. Seems like they like my tank too.

 

[mta_morrow]

Oh, this is why I bought those no name acans from Jason Fox... feeders for days. He said they stay like that almost all day in his tank. Seems like they like my tank too.

That’s a nice snag for sure!

 

[Fudsey]

Oh, this is why I bought those no name acans from Jason Fox... feeders for days. He said they stay like that almost all day in his tank. Seems like they like my tank too.

NICE ! ! ! ! !