Turtle's Deep Blue Sea

SashimiTurtle · Dec 17, 2017

No tank update in a few days... not today either but we went to a parade! Merry Christmas from Boykin, SC. Population of about 40, until the Boykin parade comes to town. This little civil war town is about 10 minutes from the house and usually nobody comes thru here. The main attraction of the parade is the fatback queen (yes, "she's" that kind of queen) and her court.

Oh, and I managed to get a sunburn on my head on a cloudy day... no pictures of floats. Middle of nowhere, no signal and I was there at 8am for a 2pm parade, gotta get there early and tailgate, this is a redneck parade. My phone battery drained FAST!

sfin52 · Dec 19, 2017

That was one heck of a party. How’s the tank Bonnie and cylde and Maui. How are the sps that you removed how about those acans

SashimiTurtle · Dec 19, 2017

sfin52 said:
That was one heck of a party. How’s the tank Bonnie and cylde and Maui. How are the sps that you removed how about those acans

Everyone is doing great... Bonnie and Clyde are themselves. Tim I'm pretty sure is a male, so that's good. It's hard to see his tail, but I think it has those things @Katrina71 was talking about. Maui was poking around just a little while ago so I fed him. McLeod just kinda hangs out here and there. The two basslets might as well not exist. I haven't seen them since I added them to the tank. I've put them on the MIA list, only because haven't recovered any bodies.

The blue stylo continues to recover slowly in the frag tank. My hyacinth birds nest however is thriving in the 35... funny. Acans, LPS and softies are still happy. Tank is going thru some uglies, need more CUC after the first of the year. We're also going to try chaeto then too.

Scurvy · Dec 19, 2017

Nice job with the pics! Youre making me want to give Acans another go. Maybe a rainbow acan nano??

Katrina71 · Dec 19, 2017

Ours is still the fish with no name.

SashimiTurtle · Dec 19, 2017

Scurvy said:
Nice job with the pics! Youre making me want to give Acans another go. Maybe a rainbow acan nano??

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It's the camera, not the photographer. Here's that birds nest in auto mode, and in pro with a few adjustments to get what I see with my eye.(same picture as above)

Ok so maybe some of it is photographer. I did have to adjust the settings to get the best image. The camera on this phone makes it possible tho.

You need one of those IM 8g Nuvo's with a small LED, say an A80 or so, minimalist rock scape and acans EVERYWHERE. Maybe a small goby and shrimp pair. In my experience, acans don't need much light at all. Mine are getting maybe 50 PAR right now. That's a good question and I have a Seneye. Project for Thursday on my day off...

Speaking of gobies and shrimp... stay tuned tomorrow

... I may just have a really freaking cool surprise in store.

Zack K · Dec 19, 2017

New friends!?

SashimiTurtle · Dec 19, 2017

Zack Klabunde said:
New friends!?

Yes, new friends. Impulse buy, I couldn't resist. They were just too cute.

Katrina71 · Dec 20, 2017

We are going to need pics.

SashimiTurtle · Dec 20, 2017

Katrina71 said:
We are going to need pics.

You are going to have to wait.

sfin52 · Dec 20, 2017

Oooh, friends when? Is that a new acan head I see?

SashimiTurtle · Dec 20, 2017

Yes, There's a baby head on that one. It was there when it came in.

The new friends come in today with UPS, which is usually at noon.

SashimiTurtle · Dec 20, 2017

Sorry, the bucket is blue and there's not much I can do to filter that... but they're here!

sfin52 · Dec 20, 2017

Are those sexy shrimp

SashimiTurtle · Dec 20, 2017

SashimiTurtle · Dec 20, 2017

Hi fin red banded goby pair, and a candy striped pistol shrimp. All three are in different places right now, hopefully they will find each other soon.

SashimiTurtle · Dec 20, 2017

To push us over the edge on free shipping, we got this little piece of galaxia coral too. It seems to like the tank so far, it's already starting to open. I'm not real sure on where to place it just yet. The front rock, past the BTA is zoa peninsula. Once the BTA grows out I'm hoping it'll help contain the zoas there. The galaxia will send out sweepers at night too, so anything next to it will get stung.