Maggie's Mixed Reef Build V3, now a 75!

[Mhamilton0911]

Are you picking up the tank in Boise today? If so safe travels!

We scheduled for Tuesday, no way I'm spending 12hrs on hwy 95 today. Too much holiday travel plus the gazillion 'staters everywheres.

Pretty flippin' excited though

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Might not paint it purple though. Stand and canopy look like a nice wood grain so it might be nicer to refinish with another stain color.

Still buying the purple paint though, on the wall I want to place the tank on should be room for plant stands or small tables next to it so I'll probably paint those.

 

[Lowell Lemon]

You might as well find a space and set up a fish store...you are headed that way with all the aquariums anyway hahaha!

 

[Mhamilton0911]

 

[Lowell Lemon]

I can help with that obsession...building your own store when you are ready hehe!

 

[Lowell Lemon]

By the way I have a 48" x 30" x 24" tank I built a couple years ago just sitting in the basement. Acrylic with a blue back. In case you don't get the 150 in Boise. Hahaha!

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Honestly if the local market was better I have the space here, my lot is zoned commercial and residential, and the front shop my husband runs his auto shop is 40x80' and then there's the same size in the back I use for storage and a wood shop. So much concrete.

Yes we have one giant long shop/warehouse situation.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

By the way I have a 48" x 30" x 24" tank I built a couple years ago just sitting in the basement. Acrylic with a blue back. In case you don't get the 150 in Boise. Hahaha!

I had an acrylic tank once but the urchin made teethy marks everywhere.

But the eel does need an upgrade.......

 

[Lowell Lemon]

Honestly if the local market was better I have the space here, my lot is zoned commercial and residential, and the front shop my husband runs his auto shop is 40x80' and then there's the same size in the back I use for storage and a wood shop. So much concrete.

Yes we have one giant long shop/warehouse situation.

Perfect for a mail order shop...and Lewiston airport works for shipping. I have a Delta account from the old days. Updated and active. Never mind bad idea hahaha!

We have a 83' x 32' building on our property for my current shop. I have often thought about a mail order store.

You even have room for your fathers CNC machine so you could build your own aquariums and kits....don't listen to me it is an obsession not a business hahaha!

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Meanwhile...

 

[Lowell Lemon]

By the way I have some Berghia Nudibrachs from cleaning up an aptasia outbreak if you need any. I have them cleaning up some old Fiji live rock.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

I don't need them, thankfully. Although I do have a few in the same family as the aiptasia but not as prolific.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

gonna colorize this octopus and make some stickers

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Plants acquired.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Me around my husband...

Inner me thinking about the new tank

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Also, hoping I don't kill all the pretties in the transfer.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

No fun tank things today.

Also spotted spider mites on one of my plants, so that's fun. Washing everything and treating with neem oil.

Could have been from the sketchy FB meeting or even from some garden produce that I got last week from a friend.

With my luck it was FB. All my Facebook deals end poorly apparently.

 

[danieyella]

No fun tank things today.

Also spotted spider mites on one of my plants, so that's fun. Washing everything and treating with neem oil.

Could have been from the sketchy FB meeting or even from some garden produce that I got last week from a friend.

With my luck it was FB. All my Facebook deals end poorly apparently.

Doesn't smell as bad as neem, I've honestly had better success with it anyway. Can soak the foliage in a bath of it, or add it to a spray bottle and mist daily for a little while.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Had the neem oil on hand, but I'll order this too!

 

[Mschmidt]

Dude, what can't you use this stuff for!?

Doesn't smell as bad as neem, I've honestly had better success with it anyway. Can soak the foliage in a bath of it, or add it to a spray bottle and mist daily for a little while.