by CJ | May 8, 2013 | Journal
The chemistry is holding firm, the other live rock, from the breakdown of a tank in the midwest, arrived today, and we made the decision, once we had the rock arranged to our satisfaction, to put the rest of the corals over, and the four fish we have. The last in was...
by CJ | May 7, 2013 | Journal
WE have acquired scads of tiny snails, a brittle starfish, scazillions of crabs ranging from 1/8 inch to 1/2 inch, and they are crawling all over. There was also a fuzzy chiton and several limpets, larger variety, about 1/2 inch. And 2 of what was billed as a...
by CJ | May 6, 2013 | Journal
Time to clear a storage filebox for 2012 records…the victim was 2003, long overdue for sunsetting, and it’s always a memory trip when I do that. We were living over on Coeur d’Alene St, we had certain places we went, things we did…trips we...
by CJ | May 5, 2013 | Journal
I think when two people have shared nearly every meal for twenty-some years, you get similar plateaus, not the same weight, but the same era of what-you-weighed-when, and ergo—when you diet together, you’re going to have sticking-spots near the same time....
by CJ | May 3, 2013 | Journal
It’s beauteous. I’m very anxious to get fish and corals into it, but the water’s warming up to liveability. Chemistry for these tropic creatures doesn’t work at life friendly rates until you reach 62 and it started at 58. So We’re...
by CJ | May 2, 2013 | Journal
I spent the morning washing sand Jane put into the tank. We performed the major transplant…cut off the lines to the 54g and made them go to a 10 g tank under the stand, where a pump (borrowed from the skimmer) brings the water topside again. We extracted the...
by CJ | May 1, 2013 | Journal
The fish store will be open, and I hope to all getout they have the pump we want. We’re going to be building some rockwork, washing sand, installing sand, and adding some water. This requires removing corals from the 54g, putting them in a tub with excess water...
by CJ | May 1, 2013 | Journal
The fish store will be open, and I hope to all getout they have the pump we want. We’re going to be building some rockwork, washing sand, installing sand, and adding some water. This requires removing corals from the 54g, putting them in a tub with excess water...
by CJ | Apr 30, 2013 | Journal
Of course the flanged metal screws that would easily screw the suspension tape to the a/c vent to hold the pipe she’s putting in place of the crazed spiderweb of cords holding up hose that turned out to stretch twice its length when we turned the pump...
by CJ | Apr 29, 2013 | Journal
…at the factory. But we think we’ve got it handled. The new Easy Blade scraper works really well, which will enable us to clean all the front glass, beyond arm’s reach, even with coralline. And, after 2, count ’em, two trips to Lowe’s in...
by CJ | Apr 29, 2013 | Journal
…at the factory. But we think we’ve got it handled. The new Easy Blade scraper works really well, which will enable us to clean all the front glass, beyond arm’s reach, even with coralline. And, after 2, count ’em, two trips to Lowe’s in...
by CJ | Apr 29, 2013 | Journal
We screwed the bulkhead connectors in last night. Never try to put teflon tape on a bulkhead connector. It took an extra 30 upside down and backwards minutes to figure that out. Today we install the power strip for the lights. We moved the two tanks side by side. We...
