jstrutt Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 lol well I only have 1 cat! I used to have 19 horses though. NINETEEN....................... I had 2 Arabians that drove me nuts....................sold them to the corner Asian Buffet King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOTV8 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Can I get a crab situation update??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie44 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Can I get a crab situation update??? My only question is will the crab and shrimp be ready for the BBQ in Feb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted September 26, 2009 Author Share Posted September 26, 2009 My only question is will the crab and shrimp be ready for the BBQ in Feb? The crab and shrimp may be ready, but I'm not going to invite them to the BBQ, I don't trust any of you guys! Update: I added some new critters on Tuesday, and a bitchn' new fish! I even have pictures!!! But this week has been hectic and upsetting so I haven't gotten around to editing and posting them. I will work on it though. Update part dos: I picked up some more live rock today and re-aquascaped tonight, It's a dust storm and I've still got about 15 gallons of water to make before it's running again tonight.... Picks of the new look coming soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loud Pedal Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hey Dwayne, they make filters that attach to the intake of the those power heads. In fact, there may have been one in that stuff I gave ya. They do a great job of polishing the water quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 Yeah I got them Dave, I put a new one on last night to help control the dust storm after moving the sand around so I could rearrange the rock! I swear guys, pictures are coming soon, it's just been one hell of a week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 Well the camera didn't get all the pictures, I was able to pull a few out that are worth seeing... I found a crab molt from the sally light foot, it's just a shell they shed to grow! Here she is cleaning whatever she can find on one of the pencil urchins. My new fish, it's a Gold Rim Tang and it's about 2.5 inch's long so far, should get to about 5 inch's. You can see the peppermint shrimp in there condo behind her. An Emerald Green crab, there's 3 of them and they are about the size of a half dollar. One of the new rocks I picked up at the store. I'll get some new pictures as soon as I get a black background on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P51tj Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 New hobby seems to be keepin ya off the street corner at nite Dawg! Lookin good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigfoot Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 No wonder he has no money to buy those heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedfastvette Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 I'ts looking good Dawg! Did you give them all names yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChadC Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Did you give them all names yet? Snack, Crab cake, Steam Pot, and California Roll. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Y Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Someday I want to go to Calaforina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 New hobby seems to be keepin ya off the street corner at nite Dawg! Lookin good! I work on the tank naked, so its just as much fun! No wonder he has no money to buy those heads. Maybe looking to go for more HP than I can get from those heads....... And no cheating either! I'ts looking good Dawg! Did you give them all names yet? The kids named the new fish Dori from the nemo movie, Jammye calls both clown fish nemo, they swim together all day long so in reality they only need one name anyway. Rebecca named the pencil urchins... #2 and mechanical. Ted, if your going to spell it like that, you'll fit right in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie44 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Just don't piss your wife off Dawg Wife Eats Pet Goldfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOTV8 Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Wow, Dawg has green crabs! And maybe working nekked scared that other one outta its shell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigfoot Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 And maybe working nekked scared that other one outta its shell... Well, it would definitely make me want to find a place to go and hide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 Really BIG update... Middle of Oct. I got ich, I lost all the fish... in the process of trying to treat it I also lost a few of the critters... After tons of research I finally decided that the best course of action was to go fishless for 5 weeks, that would asure the ich was dead and gone. Ich has a life cycle of about 3 weeks, after it feeds on the fish for about 12 to 18 hours it drops off looking for a hard surface to breed and multiply for about 7 to 10 days, after that if floats around for about 8 to 10 hours looking for a new host to feed on. So after 5 weeks here is the final rack scaping and a fishless tank Some of the cleanup crew is still there: 1 Sally Light Foot crab 1 Fancy Nassarous snail 3 Emerald crabs 1 Peppermint Shrimp (the other 4 became food for the crabs) about 15 Hermit crabs 2 Pencil Urchins Several feather dusters So how about a lot of pictures? Fancy Nassarous Snail This is how big the sucker is! One Mushroom Some Zoo's Montipora So right after Thanksgiving we ran up to Chandler to pick up our new ich free fish. 2 False Percula Clowns 1 Yellow Tang And we couldn't resist buying a Rose Bubble Tip Anemone for the clowns to play in. Here it is right after I put it in the tank, it opened up beautifully and the clowns were immediately interested in their new home. The Anemone is about the size of my open hand, the clowns getting closer. And then the RBTA decided to play shy and crawled around behing the rock for a week..... really! But the clowns finally hosted the Anemone, now they only swim out to catch a bite of food then they dive right back in, they even sleep in it! Who's that peeking out???? Hey it's yeller!! Jammye named it Daisy! You can also see where the Anemone went to hide ....FOR A DAMN WEEK! Peek a Boo Swim out, grab a bite, swim right back! Big Chicken!!! Of course Daisy see's us as something big enough to eat her, that's why she hides. She'll get braver, and realize we bring food, she will eventually eat out of our hand. Here's the funny part, whenever we get close to the tank, she goes and hides with the clowns. It's odd since she isn't a clown and she isn't immune to the RBTA stings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 One week later the RBTA decides to start moving, first adventure was to crawl under the rock through a hole and around the front side. The Urchin is on the front glass. But it didn't stop there, it kept working it's way around to the very same spot it just left. The white part is it's foot that does the crawling, it's pretty amazing how far around it stretched. The two clowns catch up and are wondering why their home is moving. This whole move lasted about an hour. The little black spot in the middle of the picture is the hole the RBTA crawled through. The clowns are probably thinking, "hey, this is a good spot!" but it crawled on around the back anyway. The next day after lights on, the RBTA crawled out front and has decided to stick around in full view for now. We have fed it twice, small pieces of silversides (small fish) and some pieces of cut up raw shrimp. Hopefully it will split and we will have to anemones... The next 2 pictures are my algae scrubber, I get about a handful of algae off of it every week, so far the water levels are staying almost perfect with just this scrubber and no other filtration or a skimmer running!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P51tj Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Thanks for not naming the yeller fish Sunnie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buccaneer Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Cool stuff, thanks for the pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Oh and I dug up the 2 cleaner clams from the very first order and they are still alive... Then they both dug back into the sand not to be seen again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 My Sally Light Foot (Betty) left me a new molt! Yeah she left it hanging from the rocks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertdawg Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 My one free mushroom pictured above has spawned... I now have baby shrooms!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstrutt Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Something fishy about this thread...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCMSH Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Something fishy about this thread...................... you've been waiting to use that line haven't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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