kittenbritches' Reefing Journey

[kittenbritches]

Service Area: HONG KONG - HONG KONG SAR, CHINA

Service Area: HONG KONG - HONG KONG SAR, CHINA​

Service Area: WEST PHILADELPHIA, PA - USA​

I wonder, if all of ours are on the same plane, or if it is on the plane. I don't even know!

I'm pretty confident mine is still in Hong Kong. I signed up to get DHL notifications once it's in their hands.

 

[Goaway]

It wont be leaving until monday I bet.

 

[kittenbritches]

I took these just down the street from my house.

 

[kittenbritches]

It wont be leaving until monday I bet.

At the earliest. Most things I get from China take about two weeks to arrive.

 

[Goaway]

I took these just down the street from my house.

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I miss the mountains. i am a mountain girl!

 

[Goaway]

Well, i just took this.. This morning!

;Sorry ;Sour

 

[Goaway]

My phone does not pick up gradients at all. 0% gradients in these photos. i am sour.

 

[kittenbritches]

I think your pictures turn out well! Mine never do my nems or corals justice.

 

[Goaway]

Hang on, this was 10-06 all from the sony a6000

10-13

Ghawd, i need to get the camera . Before he extends.

For reference, my hellfire torch.

 

[shadow_k]

I live in boring Connecticut .-. I always wanted to live in the mountains. Also I always feel blessed with that BTA

 

[fishface NJ]

I haven't even got a tracking number for mine yet. Mine isn't coming from China. Revhtree has my Noopsync light and will mail when he is able

 

[James_O]

I haven't even got a tracking number for mine yet. Mine isn't coming from China. Revhtree has my Noopsync light and will mail when he is able

Same. He did post this in a PM a few days ago:

"Warm reminder: As Hong Kong is affected by the typhoon and Hong Kong’s "Chongyang Festival" holiday, the backlog of goods, transit and unloading are severely affected. Most of the goods via Hong Kong DHL will have serious delays in shipment, pickup and transshipment! Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
DHL needs 3 to 4 days to arrange warehouses to arrange flights to the United States. The total duration is about 8 days"

So who knows how long. 5 days? 10 days? 18 days!?

 

[Goaway]

I just hope they get here. And not lost in the ocean or the docks.

 

[shadow_k]

I just hope they get here. And not lost in the ocean or the docks.

I’ve seen a lot of movies where people get lost on islands lol

 

[Mhamilton0911]

I took these just down the street from my house.

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That is just turrrrible. Not jealous at all.
I have mountains here in idee-ho too, but daaaaaaamn. This is pretty.

 

[attiland]

This is unacceptable. ;Cold

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maybe this one would help

 

[kittenbritches]

That is just turrrrible. Not jealous at all.
I have mountains here in idee-ho too, but daaaaaaamn. This is pretty.

I've only been to the southernmost part of Idaho -- once just north of Ogden to get lottery tickets for my ex, and another time through the very bottom right corner, from NW Wyoming and around Bear Lake. That was a pretty drive. <3

maybe this one would help
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I'm under an electric blanket!! LOL

 

[attiland]

I'm under an electric blanket!! LOL

That is why you have Goosebumps when you put your arm over the blanket

 

[kittenbritches]

In tank news, we're still working on this friggin mini-cycle, but things are stable. Amazon shipped the FritzZyme 9 early, so it will be delivered today and hopefully I can get things back to normal.

I tested all parameters today (that I have tests for, anyway), and we're pretty stable, but calcium is somehow through the roof. The only element I dose for is magnesium, and I haven't dosed it since the move since I want to get things stabilized and any more big water changes out of the way

I'm dosing AmGuard per the equation 0.5AV=m, where A=ammonia, V=water volume, m=mL of AmGuard.
0.5(0.25*65)=m
0.5*16.25=8.125

It's keeping the fish from going belly-up, but the melanurus wrasse seems most sensitive to the ammonia. I didn't dose any AmGuard yesterday, and this morning he was taking a lot of weird breathers on the sandbed. Now he's swimming around like normal.

It turns out, my xenias are the canary in the coalmine. The smaller of the two is close to back to normal today, while the larger is still a little shriveled and unhappy, but it has extended a good deal more than yesterday, so we're on the right track.

Everything else is looking pretty decent. The other softies that were completely retracted (pipe organ, GSP), along with a few LPS are extending once more.

And my BTA is looking pretty good, all things considered.

However, I don't think my hammer is going to make it.

 

[fishguy242]

cut your losses on hammer, take out,not worth risk of BJD...