Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

[Fudsey]

Nice pin tail @Scurvy ! ! !

 

[SashimiTurtle]

My “kidney” for today! I havent been this excited since christmas 1984 when i got my first bike

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The great white buffalo! P. attenuatus!!!!!!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Todays gonna be another good DD wrasse day. A couple Johnson, Rhomboid, Dusky, Attenuatus, Lineatus, Moyers, Carpenters, Mystery all listed as possible.

Rhomboidalis, johnsoni AND lineatus

I may just skip the power bill this month.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Nice pin tail @Scurvy ! ! !

Thats no pin tail, thats a diamond tail flasher wrasse... and as hard to get as a pin tail is, these guys are like a diamond in a haystack.

 

[Scurvy]

Seriously!! Been an incredible week for us wrasse lovers on DD. Im so in love with this Flasher it'll take everything I have to not go after another. He goes bonkers flashing anytime the pintail swims bye. Working on a pic with better color. @najers trick is helping

 

[Fudsey]

I seen one in a DD ad a while ago and could never find anything about what it was called. I thought it was a pintail but thanks for enlightening me

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I seen one in a DD ad a while ago and could never find anything about what it was called. I thought it was a pintail but thanks for enlightening me

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The picture is P. attenuatus, the description tho. This is P. mccoskeri

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Well, that lineatus went fast... can't make myself buy the rhomboidalis right now. I REEEEAAALLLY want to, but for $350 I can finish out my 90 build... next time.

 

[Scurvy]

Best Ive been able to get color wise. A little tricky in the acclimation box.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Awesome... I'm checking out my floor...

The new tank will sit just right of that AC vent. Not the ideal spot structural wise... not load bearing wall, parallel with joists... I think i should be fine tho, the floor is built up pretty strong already to support the fireplace and hearth. I might add one of those screw type floor supports just to be on the safe side.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Oh and this was right in my path when I got under here...

 

[Fudsey]

The picture is P. attenuatus, the description tho. This is P. mccoskeri

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That was the pic that they had on their ad, I just copied it because I thought it was a cool fish and I wanted to remember it

 

[Fudsey]

I used to work for Orkin in Jacksonville, NC 25 years ago. I seen plenty of snake skins in crawl spaces. Yours is nice compared to some I have been in.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I used to work for Orkin in Jacksonville, NC 25 years ago. I seen plenty of snake skins in crawl spaces. Yours is nice compared to some I have been in.

When I bought the house the exterior brick walls in the crawl space were covered in plastic and insulation. I had them remove that at my, and the home inspectors recommendation. There is a vapor barrier already installed and sand on top of it to keep it all nice and neat. The underside of the house stays dry, no need to have that insulation around brick, and the plastic covering the vents was just dumb.

 

[Scurvy]

I get shivers just thinking about a snake that size. Weight will be what about 1100lbs or so you think?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I get shivers just thinking about a snake that size. Weight will be what about 1100lbs or so you think?

The shed was only about 3 feet... just a baby.

200lb tank, 65lbs of rocks, 80lbs of sand and 860lbs of water... 1200lbs tops.

 

[Scurvy]

Thats gonna be distributed across two or three joists against a wall depemding on how exactly it lines up. I dont think you have anything to worry about but a $50 jack for piece of mind is worth it.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Thats gonna be distributed across two or three joists against a wall depemding on how exactly it lines up. I dont think you have anything to worry about but a $50 jack for piece of mind is worth it.

Yea, I was thinking that all the joists ran front to back in my house... well they all do EXCEPT for the living room. My living room is rather large, it's roughly 15'x25'... the room goes from front to back of the house, and they turned the joists sideways to span the 15' length. The floor is also sunk in the living room, so it's roughly 8" below the rest of the flooring. I'm not worried about the weight, but I may add 2 screw jacks with a 6x4 for a brace where the tank will go.

 

[sfin52]

Oh and this was right in my path when I got under here...

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How cool is that. Sorry it is in the crawl but you won’t have to worry about rodents.

 

[sfin52]

I used to work for Orkin in Jacksonville, NC 25 years ago. I seen plenty of snake skins in crawl spaces. Yours is nice compared to some I have been in.

I currently work for Orkin.