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[drk70]

Originally posted by dwculp
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I will bring the camera back to school tomorrow. Also, a friend of mine is providing me with some pumping Xenia cuttings tomorrow!

Cool! I need to start removing some of my xenias. They are starting to get too big. I don't know how long they will last in my QT when I get around to taking some out but I need to figure out what to do with them.

DW, watch the xenias. They grow quick and will overtake other corals. They also move around on their own.

[drk70]

Originally posted by dwculp
My Condy ate a Coral Beauty Angelfish who thought he was a clownfish and a royal gramma. Theres $65.00 in food!!

That's not too bad. I have already lost $100 in fish. 1 blue tang and 2 purple firefish.

[bobt2]

are you sure the firefish didn't jump out?

[dwculp]

Too a condy or just in general?

[drk70]

Originally posted by bobt2
are you sure the firefish didn't jump out?

That was the first thing I checked. No sign of it in or out of the tank.

[drk70]

Originally posted by dwculp
Too a condy or just in general?

Just the firefish to the condy. I am only assuming the condy ate it, I didn't actually see it happen but I think it is a pretty good assumption.

[bobt2]

i had one vanish after 2 yrs in a f/o tank. still think he jumped !

[drk70]

I really like them but this is the second one gone so that is it for firefish for me, at least for now.

[bobt2]

has anyone heard about the red tide in the gulf since the storm passes thru?

[dwculp]

Lights on for three hours now, no algae buildup what-so-ever.

My hammer has opened up huge, one condy is coming back to life.

[bobt2]

i think i answered my own question. i just talked to a customer in tampa. he said the red tide is back after the storm

[dwculp]

Five hours......no algae.

[drk70]

Originally posted by dwculp
Five hours......no algae.

Sounds like maybe you finally beat it!

[dwculp]

Originally posted by drk70
Sounds like maybe you finally beat it!

Yeah, I feel like a real man now, I kicked the living crap out of a single celled organism!!

Of course it kicked the crap out of me for 1.5 months!!

[patsan]

Brian, this picture looks like something you'd see in a magazine.

Dennis, sorry to hear about your fish. Maybe it's still hiding and the condy didn't eat it, although you'd know better than any of us.

Bob, so what are you going to do now that you can't get your gulf rock?

Dave, glad to hear the tank is looking good. Can't wait to see pictures tomorrow.

For those of you who have sumps, how do you clean the bottom of them? I have all this crap on the bottom that I'd like to clean out, but just don't know how. When I did my water change over the weekend, I thought about sticking the pump in there and take the water from the sump, but then the junk would have to go thru the pump, which I don't want....and then the other problem is that it would suck out all the water before I got a chance to clean the floor. What's a person to do?

[drk70]

Well I got a new camera over the weekend. This camera is really for us to take on vacation but it took some fairly good macro shots.

Frogspawn is finally opening more.


You can see the stingers on the fire coral.


Hammer


My Kenya Tree wants to keep leaning off the rocks.


Moon Coral

[bobt2]

pat, sell everything.!

[jnb]

i bet you 25 cents he shows up - mine dissappears for a few days every several months (that is until lately when Katrina came thru...now he is in heaven

Originally posted by drk70
I think my condy ate my purple firefish.

The last time I saw the firefish was on Saturday morning. No sign of it since. I purposely didn't feed the condy last week but since the firefish has disappeared the condy has done nothing but poop! I suspect it had a $25 meal the other day.

I think my condy will be evicted from my tank soon. It has gotten very large and is not very pretty anymore. I fear because it keeps moving around it will sting some of my corals also.

[drk70]

A few more:



Pulsating Xenias. I'm not sure why they have that brown look. Could it be not enough light? I don't remember them being that brown when I got them.




Horseshoe Worm


???


Elephant Skin

[drk70]

Originally posted by jnb
i bet you 25 cents he shows up - mine dissappears for a few days every several months (that is until lately when Katrina came thru...

Well I hope your right!

[patsan]

Originally posted by bobt2
pat, sell everything.!

For real?

Dennis, your pictures are awesome. I really like that elephant skin. What camera did you get?

[jnb]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by patsan
[B]Brian, this picture looks like something you'd see in a magazine.

when I do a water change - I use a mag5 with six feet of flex (my everyday pump for this and that) on either side to pump 10 gallons out of my sump - all the while vacumning it

For those of you who have sumps, how do you clean the bottom of them? I have all this crap on the bottom that I'd like to clean out, but just don't know how. When I did my water change over the weekend, I thought about sticking the pump in there and take the water from the sump, but then the junk would have to go thru the pump, which I don't want....and then the other problem is that it would suck out all the water before I got a chance to clean the floor. What's a person to do?

[bobt2]

pat,it's possible. i set up the new tank because i loved the gulf rock. i looked at all the other rocks locally and they left me cold. i'll have to get keys rock or pack it in. i'm very dissapointed at this point.

[drk70]

Originally posted by patsan
For real?

Dennis, your pictures are awesome. I really like that elephant skin. What camera did you get?

Thanks! I didn't really like it in the beginning but it does have some interesting wrinkles.

I got an Olympus Stylus 500.

[patsan]

I guess I need to get a different kind of pump then...because the one I use to pump water back into the tank on water changes, has 3/4" tubing, and it would pump much too quickly before I'd be able to remove the detrius from the floor.