It’s set up! I’ve tucked away the cords and have been patiently waiting for my nitrogen cycle to finish. (It takes a couple weeks for the bacteria colonies to get established.) I’ve been testing the water each day waiting for ammonia to fall first, and then nitrite. Now they both read zero.
So last night I finally moved my clownfish (the only survivor of the great “tank crash of 2019”) to the new tank. He has been in a 10 gallon swamp for the past year, so this is a major step up.
Now I will slowly begin stocking the tank with coral frags. Will take my time and hopefully get some really nice/interesting/colorful ones. Maybe replace some of my favorite from my old setup.
Also, tomorrow I have a shipment of live macro algae, phyto plankton and copepods (little invertebrates like brine shrimp) that I will set up into a refugium (a protected section in the sump that lets them all breed without being eaten by fish). The copepods in the refugium serve as a natural live food source and the algae in the refugium serve to export waste nurtients from the water like phosphate and nitrate.
Lastly, I will save a portion of those pods, mix them with live phytoplankton and try my hand at culturing them in a bucket outside. (It’s a way of breeding them at scale.) Should be interesting!
Oh man, it’s heartbreaking when a tank crashes. Have you ever had an anemone with the clown? It’s almost magical watching the clownfish with them, prolly one of my favorite things of any tank I’be ever had.
Just got home frum a cousins lunch. We have started getting together at least once a month. My mom had 10 brothers and sisters, my dad had 11. I have lots of cousins but two are special. They are double-first cousins. Our moms were sisters and our dads were brothers. We try to get together often. They are always interested in what I am doing because I keep coming up with new hobbies. I told them today that when an older person stops learning the brain starts to deteriate. Currently I’m learning to crochet, yo-yo, and studying for my ham radio license.
How old are these 2 cousins? Any chance you can talk them into yoing? Might be a really fun things for you guys to do together!
What kind of stuff do you chrochet? I always thought it’d be fun to do amigurumi…(little stuffed animals).
I like to do kumihimo (cool friendship bracelts) once in awhile.
Both women, 70+. I was by far the youngest there and the only male. My best friend now has two grandchildren, 18 and 2 months, and a third due in march. I would really like to make them some baby blankets.
Now I’m headed to Houston with the wife.
Birthday weekend. Drinking and dancing to some DnB. Got my throw for the club. And I’m not coming home till I get some Waffle house!
