You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

[Slocke]

Wiltshire and Birmingham and I doubt I’ll be able to get to any LFSs. I want to obviously but getting around England is a pain. Especially as I can hardly drive stick and have never driven on the left.

 

[Slocke]

Picture day!

Sometimes its fun to mess with a photos settings:

 

[i cant think]

Wiltshire and Birmingham and I doubt I’ll be able to get to any LFSs. I want to obviously but getting around England is a pain. Especially as I can hardly drive stick and have never driven on the left.

Birmingham has a couple nice LFSs if you get to any, I hate going to places in Europe… We’re so used to driving on the left then cross the Chanel to most countries driving on the right.

 

[Slocke]

Birmingham has a couple nice LFSs if you get to any, I hate going to places in Europe… We’re so used to driving on the left then cross the Chanel to most countries driving on the right.

Well if I find a way to get out I'll ask you! At this moment I'm relying on family to drive me around.

It's funny. Alex and Ryan talked about how over here we happily drive hundreds of miles but over there its too much hassle. It's kind of true but also you have too many tiny windy roads with no visibility. Also far too many tractors just blocking roads and hardly moving.

 

[i cant think]

Well if I find a way to get out I'll ask you! At this moment I'm relying on family to drive me around.

It's funny. Alex and Ryan talked about how over here we happily drive hundreds of miles but over there its too much hassle. It's kind of true but also you have too many tiny windy roads with no visibility. Also far too many tractors just blocking roads and hardly moving.

Just you wait… those tiny windy roads are apparently ‘Trailer safe’ and if you go down a few you’ll know how ridiculous that is!

 

[Petcrazyson]

Picture day!

Your exquisitus is getting chunky!

I could’ve made a nice joke right there :thinking-face:……

 

[Slocke]

Your exquisitus is getting chunky!

I could’ve made a nice joke right there :thinking-face:……

I’ll take that as a compliment! All my fish are chunky! I’ll resist making any wrasse jokes.

 

[Slocke]

Went to the LFS with a big bucket of chaeto came back with enough fish food to last a few months but more importantly I traded the chaeto and 30$ for a beautiful yellowtail tamarin, Anampses meleagrides!

I know I shouldn't of with me leaving for two weeks this weekend but after the dissapointment of the blue spots and with a healthy YTT at that price.

 

[Slocke]

Heres that tilefish @i cant think !

 

[Slocke]

It was freaking out in the bag so I just floated it. Looks really healthy though!

 

[Slocke]

Well that didn't go to plan...
The cleaner wrasse suddenly went crazy. Luckily it chased the tamarin into the top corner and I managed to easily scoop the tamarin up. But it was a really violent few attacks. Anyways the tamarin is doing alright no obvious injuries and is now in the sump which has so many pods it probably feels like it’s in paradise. I’ve already seen it eat a few.
I was planning to move the cleaner wrasse over to the other tank anyway but this will move up my plans. Should have used the acclimation box...

 

[bnord]

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
-Steven Wright
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My 110 gallon 60"x18"x24" mixed reef tank with a 45 gallon refugium.
Thread restart for this tank that was started in January 2022 with a used tank and rocks. It was an ugly mess that I've slowly been saving. My goal has been to experience as much as I can to find my niche in this hobby.

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The utility corner:

Current Stock:

Fish:

• Frostbite & domino clownfish, Amphiprion ocellaris​
• Benggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni ​
• Red firefish, Nemateleotris magnifica​
• Common foxface, Siganus vulpinus​
• Royal gramma, Gramma loreto​
• Midas blenny, Ecsenius midas​
• 2 Mandarins, Synchiropus splendidus​
• (one eyed) Orange spot goby, Amblyeleotris guttata​
• Red Sea leopard wrasse, Macropharyngodon marisrubri​
• Radiant wrasse, Halichoeres iridis​
• Blue streak cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus​
• Pink streaked wrasse, Pseudocheilinops ataenia​
• Lunate fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus lunatus​
• Exquisite fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus exquisitus​
• Blue-barred ribbon goby, Oxymetopon cyanoctenosum
• Timor wrasse, Halichoeres timorensis

Inverts:

• Skunk cleaner shrimp
• Fire cleaner shrimp
• 5 Peppermint shrimp (3 in refugium)
• Tiger pistol shrimp
• Porcelain crab
• 2 Tuxedo urchin
• Shortspine urchin
• Banded serpent starfish
• Brittle starfish
• Sand sifting starfish
• Red and pink rock flower anemone
• Zebra rock flower anemone
• Green rock flower anemone
• Brown and pink rock flower anemone
• Fighting conch
• Various nassarius snail species
• Mexican turbos
• Trochus snails
• Astrea turbos
• Margarita snails
• Various trochus snail species
• Bumble bee snails
• Various hermit crabs

Soft coral:

• Green star polyp
• Koji Wada Pink Nephthea
• Green toadstool leather
• Grandis palythoas
• Zoanthids:
  • Pandora
  • Fruit loops
  • Jungle juice
  • Pixie dust
  • Tangerine dreams
  • Star Foxx
  • Blooduskers
  • Green and red?
• Orange ricordea florida
• Green pipe organ
• Pink clove polyps
• Hairy green mushroom

LPS:

• Green duncan Coral
• Red Blastomussa
• Red micromussa
• Green elegance
• Purple/green (branching) frogspawn
• Gold (wall) hammer
• Red and green leptastrea
• Gold galaxea
• Yellow bernardpora
• Pink and yellow goniopora
• Green goniopora
• Blue branching alveopora

SPS:

• Green stylophora
• Purple stylophora
• Freak hair (encrusting) pavona
• Blue (encrusting) pavona
• purple (ridged) pavona
• Red (branching) montipora
• Jack-o-lantern Leptoseris

Other Equipment:

Lights:

• Fluval marine 48"
• 2 AI prime 16s
• Fluval planted 36" (refugium)

Filtration

• Tunze 9012 skimmer
• Tidal 110 HOB
• Fluval FX6 (return pump and filter)

Other:

• Jebao SCP-70 wave maker
• 2x Aquamai KPS
• AQUATOP Heater and controller
• Fluval heater
• Prism ATO

he also said, "its a small world, but I still wouldn't want to paint it"

 

[bnord]

Well that didn't go to plan...
The cleaner wrasse suddenly went crazy. Luckily it chased the tamarin into the top corner and I managed to easily scoop the tamarin up. But it was a really violent few attacks. Anyways the tamarin is doing alright no obvious injuries and is now in the sump which has so many pods it probably feels like it’s in paradise. I’ve already seen it eat a few.
I was planning to move the cleaner wrasse over to the other tank anyway but this will move up my plans. Should have used the acclimation box...

I have heard of cleaner wrasse attacks before but I'm 2/2 in model fish - wonder what triggers go off on a fish that should, by design, want to get along with other fish - never hear of neon gobies going rogue

 

[Slocke]

I have heard of cleaner wrasse attacks before but I'm 2/2 in model fish - wonder what triggers go off on a fish that should, by design, want to get along with other fish - never hear of neon gobies going rogue

Yeah no idea. They are about the same size and shape so maybe that? But the cleaner harasses every new fish while it gives it its health inspection but nothing like this. You can see in the video that everything started alright. It was only like an hour later that things got violent.

 

[Slocke]

I don’t know if you saw this yesterday: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/w...-about-this-smh-stop-using-io-salt-rn.974977/

Anyways I tested it myself and though I didn’t find any ammonia I did find something far more concerning in instant ocean salt:

 

[Petcrazyson]

I don’t know if you saw this yesterday: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/w...-about-this-smh-stop-using-io-salt-rn.974977/

Anyways I tested it myself and though I didn’t find any ammonia I did find something far more concerning in instant ocean salt:

That looks like it took you too long to edit…….

 

[tbrown]

I don’t know if you saw this yesterday: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/w...-about-this-smh-stop-using-io-salt-rn.974977/

Anyways I tested it myself and though I didn’t find any ammonia I did find something far more concerning in instant ocean salt:

They look pretty!

 

[Mschmidt]

I don’t know if you saw this yesterday: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/w...-about-this-smh-stop-using-io-salt-rn.974977/

Anyways I tested it myself and though I didn’t find any ammonia I did find something far more concerning in instant ocean salt:

saw the thread, started reading and found it tedious so I stopped.

I need to check my IO though for anything fishy.

 

[Slocke]

saw the thread, started reading and found it tedious so I stopped.

I need to check my IO though for anything fishy.

Originally it had the emergency tag and it was him just shouting about how IO salt has 2.0 ammonia and everyone using it was killing their fish or some nonsense. Apparently this is his second thread on the subject. Seeing as its the most popular salt in the hobby most people took it as a weird joke. Thus my joke (though I did actually test it just for fun and of course got no ammonia).

 

[Slocke]

That looks like it took you too long to edit…….

Like two minutes. Probably longer then the joke was worth...