Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

[NY_Caveman]

Thinking about a gecko for my son, a guy at work is a Top breeder.

They can be nasty and bite very hard. Strong jaws. That said, the trick is to handle them a lot and they became quite friendly and tame. Make sure to have your friend teach you how to hold them behind the head to avoid being bit at first. If he breeds perhaps he raises them to be tamer than some mass breeders do.

 

[Brew12]

Thinking about a gecko for my son, a guy at work is a Top breeder.

I didn't know you could breed tops.

 

[NY_Caveman]

I didn't know you could breed tops.

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That is a male.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Where do we stand on spiders

 

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Then

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Then

 

[Scurvy]

My skin just crawled down the street chasing my long lost liver!

 

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So how's the tank? been about a week since the all CLEAR

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Took a FTS earlier... backed my lights down to 60%, I need to test but I'm pretty sure we're ULNS and almost out of phyto. A few corals are looking pale, but not bad. The lobo is knocking on death's door. It hasn't been doing well for a long time. Wild colonies...

Oh yea, everything looks different... lol. I tried making a tunnel with 3/4" PVC going under the rocks and up to the bottom of the skull. Not a good diea, the rocks were unstable but the skull looked good and the tunnel was neat. We kinda need rocks that won't fall over tho. This scape works, and the skull is actually kinda flat on the rock. Maui was in it earlier today, but he spends most of the time digging under the rocks. I spaced the corals out a little better too so they have some growing room.

Speaking of the skull, we bleached and actually had part of the cyphastrea die back.

I removed it from the skull and set it on the frag rack and this is what happened.

The dead spot is still there, but holy polyp extension Batman. Oh and we found a name for it, its Blue Meteor Shower.
https://www.windowreefs.com/products/blue-meteor-shower-cyphastrea
I'm thinking its a bottom of the tank over in some shade kind of coral. Seems to like being out of the light.

The Project X comes tomorrow, and I had him cut a birds of paradise for me too. Maybe we can keep from bleaching these?

 

[sfin52]

Looking good.

 

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Smiley will have silver hair..... " He'll look distinguished "

 

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.....Now with Grecian Formula he could look like

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Cyphastrea bleaches where it is... I'm thinking some tubbs stellata.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

We finally tested some things...

Alk 8.7dKH, went up 0.1 since the 11th. We're not dosing. Likely just a minor variation and no consumption yet, didn't see a point in checking Ca or Mg.

NO3 0.75-1ppm, yep that low. Feeding fish twice a day now. I have Spectracide KNO3, but I'd rather not dose anything if i can help it.

PO4 0.08ppm... its always 0.08ppm

 

[sfin52]

Besides nitrates numbers look good

 

[najer]

Some people like dogs and that's ok. Some people like fish and that's great. But people who like cats, they need mental therapy. Lol!

I resemble that remark!

 

[Brew12]

NO3 0.75-1ppm, yep that low. Feeding fish twice a day now. I have Spectracide KNO3, but I'd rather not dose anything if i can help it.

Looking good!

NO3... No cyano, no dosing!

If you want to raise it back up, just reduce the light cycle on your chaeto.

 

[Sipec]

Some people like dogs and that's ok. Some people like fish and that's great. But people who like cats, they need mental therapy. Lol!

Really? Should i consult a doctor?

 

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Really? Should i consult a doctor?

 

[najer]

Really? Should i consult a doctor?

No, just sit back smugly and consider how unhinged dog lovers are as pets to their dog's attention seeking!