Our Tbs - Page 12

patsan · 04/06/2006, 07:51 AM

I haven't gotten any emails saying people posted.

That picture is beautiful Peggy!!

Brian...I agree...lower the riser tube a little bit to get a drier skimmate.
Once you get it set to where you're happy, you won't have to touch it. It's so easy!

skippy2 · 04/06/2006, 08:08 AM

Thanks for the compliments. A week after I got him I got new bulbs. I am running reeflux 12k. I put them in last Thurs. and ran the bulbs for 4 hrs. The next day 1 of the ballasts quit working so I have been running only 1 light for a week

My new ballast should be here today though.

bkelley02 · 04/16/2006, 07:36 AM

What happened to this thread? 10 days and no posts or pics.

Happy Easter everyone.

patsan · 04/16/2006, 09:01 AM

HAPPY EASTER!!

lossman · 04/16/2006, 01:13 PM

My three year old granddaughter got hit by a drunk driver on Thursday evening while out walking with her daddy. Thank God she did not get seriously hurt! A bloody nose, scraped leg and various bumps and bruises. They live in Suffield, CT and it's so hard being this far from them at times like this! She was thrown 10 feet!! Her most serious concern was that Princess's aren't supposed to bruise and bleed!

On a happier note, we went to Aquatic Visions and picked up some zebra turbos and a Molly Miller blenny to help combat our brown and green hair algae outbreak. The turbos are doing a wonderful job so far, eating away at that brown stuff. The blenny is settling in nicely and has been picking at both the brown and green algae. It's a really pretty fish - chocolate brown with a maroon overtone and a tail with white stripes/spots. It took the guy at the store almost 1/2 hour to catch her as she was in their rock tank. He took almost half the rock out of the tank to get her. It was a riot to watch him....we had told him he could take his time trying to catch her and we would come back next weekend to get her but he was determined that no little fish was going to outsmart him! LOL

Hope everyone has a safe and happy Easter!!

patsan · 04/16/2006, 02:52 PM

Sorry to hear about your granddaughter Sally. Glad to hear she'll be okay!!

The fish sounds very interesting. Can't wait to get pictures of it!

bkelley02 · 04/16/2006, 04:07 PM

I hope your Granddaughter is ok. I'm surprised I didn't see anything about it on the news. I live about 20-25 minutes away from Suffield. I'm sure she'll be back to her Throne and other Royal duties in no time. Being a princess carries a lot of responsibility!

lossman · 04/16/2006, 04:16 PM

LOL, too true!!

She has already posed for her "blue blood proof" pictures.

I called my son and daughter-in-law friday late afternoon but they could not talk as they were on the news and had to show the Princess her very first "press conference". LOL

skippy2 · 04/16/2006, 05:27 PM

I am really sorry to hear about your little princess. The drunk was caught and arrested I hope.
I would love to see a pic of your new fish. Sounds quite interesting.

BrianPlankis · 04/17/2006, 09:33 AM

Hey all,

I got some new aquistions this weekend

First of all, I FINALLY put up gutter guard to protect against fish jumping. The back is now 90% covered. I will add a little more eggcrate or gutter guard this coming weekend to get it up to 95% with just room for wires going in and out.

My clownfish has a new buddy! The new "guy" went into the main tank and looked around pretty scared for a bit, then he saw the other clownfish and they instantly became buddies and haven't been apart since

I bought a 1" frag of orange Montipora digitata, I love the color and it had its polyps out 1/2 hour after being put in the main tank.

The seller of the digitata threw in two frags of a brown/green monticap for FREE

I hope it survives, my last monticap died after about 4 weeks. Of course my last one was in my QT tank for I think 3 weeks under bad light. Here is one of the frags:

Of course a small piece broke off of one of the cap frags and immediately RTN'd.

I hope now that my Ca and Alk levels are higher and stable this cap will pull through.

Normally I QT things, but since these frags are from one of the best local fraggers known to be pest free I just very carefully visually inspected them with a magnifying glass and acclimated them to the main tank. I also put the clownfish in the main tank as it comes from our local clownfish breeder that keeps things disease free.

Brian

patsan · 04/17/2006, 12:29 PM

Brain, glad to hear the new clown found a buddy right away. That has to make it so much easier.
Nice frags!!
I have to wait for warm weather to get my frags.
We're going to FL in a couple of weeks so when we get back the weather should be nicer up here. Can't wait for vacation and warm weather!!

bkelley02 · 04/17/2006, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by patsan

I have to wait for warm weather to get my frags.

And they're coming along nicely too I might add. Got rid of those pesky little bugs and things have started growing like crazy.

H2OLUVSME · 04/18/2006, 12:40 PM

hi every one. glad to see there are still active contributors to this thread.

its not looking like im going to be getting back into reefing anytime soon, but i wanted to touch base and check things out anyway.

Pat, i like your swallowtail pics. back in Feb you made a comment about wanted a male really bad. im pretty sure that if you put another female in with the one you have one would change over. that LFS i shop at has four females in a display. one of them has been changing over the past few weeks and is almost a male now.

every one else very nice pics/corals/fish/etc...

BrianPlankis · 04/18/2006, 12:44 PM

Hey Landon,

Nice to see you check in! Let us know when you get back into reefing

But keep commenting here so our "family" stays alive.

Speaking of pics, what about the people on here with new rock, any new pics?

Brian

H2OLUVSME · 04/18/2006, 12:59 PM

i was thinking people with new full tank pics could post 'em

skippy2 · 04/18/2006, 01:01 PM

Hi Landon. How you doing? Hopefully things have settled down for you.

drk70 · 04/18/2006, 01:47 PM

Well here is the latest full tank shot I have. This was at the end of last month and the pic isn't all that good.

krajacich · 04/18/2006, 02:04 PM

Sorry I haven't posted for a while....lots of traveling lately!

My tank is pretty much the same. I got my new lights but haven't gotten them on the tank yet since I was still working on the hood. I still need to do a few things on it (paint/stain) but hope to get that done this weekend.

I'll try to get a full tank shot tonight.

Landon- great to see you stop by

especially if you're able to motivate lots of people to post pics!

bkelley02 · 04/18/2006, 03:21 PM

Blurry pic from 10 minutes ago through dirty glass.

bkelley02 · 04/18/2006, 03:23 PM

WOW. I got a lot stuff crammed in there!

Doesn't look quite so bad in person. Lose the depth in the pic I guess. Yeesh!

krajacich · 04/18/2006, 04:54 PM

Here's a recent full tank shot of mine:

bobt2 · 04/21/2006, 10:06 AM

so where did everybody go? moving on i think.last year at this time i was asking a million questions about my new tbs 7 months ago i bought a second, bigger tbs package and yesterday i sold my first frags. where does the time go.

drk70 · 04/21/2006, 10:16 AM

I'm still here, just don't have as much time to post as I did in the past.

I was the same way about a year ago.

What did you sell? A couple weeks ago I got over $200 for xenia frags. Of course it was in store credit but it works for me. I spent $160 of it that day.

bobt2 · 04/21/2006, 10:37 AM

my first sale was xenia. i,m setting up a frag tank for leathers and other softys. my lsf will not even give me food!

drk70 · 04/21/2006, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bobt2
my first sale was xenia. i,m setting up a frag tank for leathers and other softys. my lsf will not even give me food!

I'm thinking of setting up a frag tank permanately.

You sold them to someone and not a store? My lfs is happy to take them. I actually think they sell them within a week or so because I have never seen any of my frags sitting in their tanks when I go back.

04/06/2006, 07:51 AM	#276
patsan Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 6,712	I haven't gotten any emails saying people posted. That picture is beautiful Peggy!! Brian...I agree...lower the riser tube a little bit to get a drier skimmate. Once you get it set to where you're happy, you won't have to touch it. It's so easy! __________________ Pat Current Tank Info: spectator

04/06/2006, 08:08 AM	#277
skippy2 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: S.W. Michigan Posts: 3,205	Thanks for the compliments. A week after I got him I got new bulbs. I am running reeflux 12k. I put them in last Thurs. and ran the bulbs for 4 hrs. The next day 1 of the ballasts quit working so I have been running only 1 light for a week My new ballast should be here today though. __________________ Peggy Current Tank Info: no tank

04/16/2006, 09:01 AM	#279
patsan Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 6,712	HAPPY EASTER!! __________________ Pat Current Tank Info: spectator

04/16/2006, 01:13 PM	#280
lossman Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 2,341	My three year old granddaughter got hit by a drunk driver on Thursday evening while out walking with her daddy. Thank God she did not get seriously hurt! A bloody nose, scraped leg and various bumps and bruises. They live in Suffield, CT and it's so hard being this far from them at times like this! She was thrown 10 feet!! Her most serious concern was that Princess's aren't supposed to bruise and bleed! On a happier note, we went to Aquatic Visions and picked up some zebra turbos and a Molly Miller blenny to help combat our brown and green hair algae outbreak. The turbos are doing a wonderful job so far, eating away at that brown stuff. The blenny is settling in nicely and has been picking at both the brown and green algae. It's a really pretty fish - chocolate brown with a maroon overtone and a tail with white stripes/spots. It took the guy at the store almost 1/2 hour to catch her as she was in their rock tank. He took almost half the rock out of the tank to get her. It was a riot to watch him....we had told him he could take his time trying to catch her and we would come back next weekend to get her but he was determined that no little fish was going to outsmart him! LOL Hope everyone has a safe and happy Easter!! __________________ Research and learn BEFORE you act !!!, or you'll surely regret it. :) Current Tank Info: 150 gal TBS

04/16/2006, 02:52 PM	#281
patsan Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 6,712	Sorry to hear about your granddaughter Sally. Glad to hear she'll be okay!! The fish sounds very interesting. Can't wait to get pictures of it! __________________ Pat Current Tank Info: spectator

04/16/2006, 07:36 AM	#278
bkelley02 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,117	What happened to this thread? 10 days and no posts or pics. Happy Easter everyone.

04/16/2006, 04:07 PM	#282
bkelley02 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,117	I hope your Granddaughter is ok. I'm surprised I didn't see anything about it on the news. I live about 20-25 minutes away from Suffield. I'm sure she'll be back to her Throne and other Royal duties in no time. Being a princess carries a lot of responsibility!

04/16/2006, 04:16 PM	#283
lossman Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 2,341	LOL, too true!! She has already posed for her "blue blood proof" pictures. I called my son and daughter-in-law friday late afternoon but they could not talk as they were on the news and had to show the Princess her very first "press conference". LOL __________________ Research and learn BEFORE you act !!!, or you'll surely regret it. :) Current Tank Info: 150 gal TBS

04/16/2006, 05:27 PM	#284
skippy2 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: S.W. Michigan Posts: 3,205	I am really sorry to hear about your little princess. The drunk was caught and arrested I hope. I would love to see a pic of your new fish. Sounds quite interesting. __________________ Peggy Current Tank Info: no tank

04/17/2006, 09:33 AM	#285
BrianPlankis Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,956	Hey all, I got some new aquistions this weekend First of all, I FINALLY put up gutter guard to protect against fish jumping. The back is now 90% covered. I will add a little more eggcrate or gutter guard this coming weekend to get it up to 95% with just room for wires going in and out. My clownfish has a new buddy! The new "guy" went into the main tank and looked around pretty scared for a bit, then he saw the other clownfish and they instantly became buddies and haven't been apart since I bought a 1" frag of orange Montipora digitata, I love the color and it had its polyps out 1/2 hour after being put in the main tank. The seller of the digitata threw in two frags of a brown/green monticap for FREE I hope it survives, my last monticap died after about 4 weeks. Of course my last one was in my QT tank for I think 3 weeks under bad light. Here is one of the frags: Of course a small piece broke off of one of the cap frags and immediately RTN'd. I hope now that my Ca and Alk levels are higher and stable this cap will pull through. Normally I QT things, but since these frags are from one of the best local fraggers known to be pest free I just very carefully visually inspected them with a magnifying glass and acclimated them to the main tank. I also put the clownfish in the main tank as it comes from our local clownfish breeder that keeps things disease free. Brian __________________ Currently redesigning my 90 gallon tank system to support coral and invertebrate breeding. Click on my red house to see the thread with the progress. Current Tank Info: 75 Gallon Reef with 29 gal sump and 8 gal Clownfish species tank

04/17/2006, 12:29 PM	#286
patsan Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 6,712	Brain, glad to hear the new clown found a buddy right away. That has to make it so much easier. Nice frags!! I have to wait for warm weather to get my frags. We're going to FL in a couple of weeks so when we get back the weather should be nicer up here. Can't wait for vacation and warm weather!! __________________ Pat Current Tank Info: spectator

04/18/2006, 12:40 PM	#288
H2OLUVSME Premium Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: MYRTLE BEACH, SC Posts: 5,048	hi every one. glad to see there are still active contributors to this thread. its not looking like im going to be getting back into reefing anytime soon, but i wanted to touch base and check things out anyway. Pat, i like your swallowtail pics. back in Feb you made a comment about wanted a male really bad. im pretty sure that if you put another female in with the one you have one would change over. that LFS i shop at has four females in a display. one of them has been changing over the past few weeks and is almost a male now. every one else very nice pics/corals/fish/etc... __________________ Landon

04/18/2006, 12:44 PM	#289
BrianPlankis Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,956	Hey Landon, Nice to see you check in! Let us know when you get back into reefing But keep commenting here so our "family" stays alive. Speaking of pics, what about the people on here with new rock, any new pics? Brian __________________ Currently redesigning my 90 gallon tank system to support coral and invertebrate breeding. Click on my red house to see the thread with the progress. Current Tank Info: 75 Gallon Reef with 29 gal sump and 8 gal Clownfish species tank

04/18/2006, 12:59 PM	#290
H2OLUVSME Premium Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: MYRTLE BEACH, SC Posts: 5,048	i was thinking people with new full tank pics could post 'em __________________ Landon

04/18/2006, 01:01 PM	#291
skippy2 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: S.W. Michigan Posts: 3,205	Hi Landon. How you doing? Hopefully things have settled down for you. __________________ Peggy Current Tank Info: no tank

04/18/2006, 01:47 PM	#292
drk70 Premium Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Westminster, MD. Posts: 1,640	Full Tank Shot Well here is the latest full tank shot I have. This was at the end of last month and the pic isn't all that good. __________________ Dennis Current Tank Info: 70g RR, DIY Stand & Canopy, 29g Sump, Mag 9.5 return, Aqua C EV-180 w/ Mag 7, 6-39W T-5 Retro Kit, 70g TBS package

04/18/2006, 02:04 PM	#293
krajacich Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Montana Posts: 984	Sorry I haven't posted for a while....lots of traveling lately! My tank is pretty much the same. I got my new lights but haven't gotten them on the tank yet since I was still working on the hood. I still need to do a few things on it (paint/stain) but hope to get that done this weekend. I'll try to get a full tank shot tonight. Landon- great to see you stop by especially if you're able to motivate lots of people to post pics! __________________ Danielle Current Tank Info: 72g bow reef tank with TBS package

04/18/2006, 03:21 PM	#294
bkelley02 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,117	Blurry pic from 10 minutes ago through dirty glass.

04/18/2006, 03:23 PM	#295
bkelley02 Premium Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,117	WOW. I got a lot stuff crammed in there! Doesn't look quite so bad in person. Lose the depth in the pic I guess. Yeesh!

04/18/2006, 04:54 PM	#296
krajacich Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Montana Posts: 984	Here's a recent full tank shot of mine: __________________ Danielle Current Tank Info: 72g bow reef tank with TBS package

04/21/2006, 10:06 AM	#297
bobt2 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: long island NY Posts: 1,835	so where did everybody go? moving on i think.last year at this time i was asking a million questions about my new tbs 7 months ago i bought a second, bigger tbs package and yesterday i sold my first frags. where does the time go.

04/21/2006, 10:16 AM	#298
drk70 Premium Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Westminster, MD. Posts: 1,640	I'm still here, just don't have as much time to post as I did in the past. I was the same way about a year ago. What did you sell? A couple weeks ago I got over $200 for xenia frags. Of course it was in store credit but it works for me. I spent $160 of it that day. __________________ Dennis Current Tank Info: 70g RR, DIY Stand & Canopy, 29g Sump, Mag 9.5 return, Aqua C EV-180 w/ Mag 7, 6-39W T-5 Retro Kit, 70g TBS package

04/21/2006, 10:37 AM	#299
bobt2 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: long island NY Posts: 1,835	my first sale was xenia. i,m setting up a frag tank for leathers and other softys. my lsf will not even give me food!