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Wave Without A Shore
It’s a work in progress but everything should work now
There is tank, and pix will follow…
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...
The invertebrates arrived…
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 'small'...
Overheated the shredder…
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 took, that show up in...
The most obnoxious weight loss plateau ever…192.
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. Jane and I...
Jane has pix…if you want to see the tank up and lighted.
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 trusting the lights to warm...
We have Tanks!
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 corals,...
Today's the day we start the tank in earnest…
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 from...
Today’s the day we start the tank in earnest…
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 from...
Jane gets two ears and a tail….or at least a piece of well-worn plumbing…
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 on---went...
We’ve idee’d the substance as likely silicone, having gotten there via a wiping rag…
...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 a 40 mph gale, I got all the...
We've idee'd the substance as likely silicone, having gotten there via a wiping rag…
...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 a 40 mph gale, I got all the...
The bulkheads are holding water…
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...
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