iflytoohigh

interested in the frogspawn pls!

Update: No longer need frags. I found someone selling a whole setup. I went ahead and got that!

Putting a 3g pico together. Looking for some frags. shrooms frogspawn / hammer duncans open to other assorted softies, euphillias, maybe LPS, zoos trying to stay under $100 total budget to get some frags. one stop shop works for me if you have a variety! small stuff works. shoot me some pics and prices! i'm in North Austin / Pflugerville area.

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Sedra KSP-2500 - $50 Max Flow: 250 H/Max: 7ft Eheim 1000 Compact - $20 Max Flow: 260 H/Max: 6.5 3 Gallon Pico setup: $65 Light - 2 x 9watt 9" Red Sea SP-800 HOB Filter The Sedra pump is in near mint condition. I had been using it in my sump. The Eheim is in good working condition. It was located in my main display and has some coraline algae buildup but still works just fine. I was using the 3 Gallon Pico setup for some acans and other LPS. I no longer have the stand so you'll have to rig up something for the lights. I'm taking a short break from the hobby as all my money seems to be going to a car i'm restoring.

ya. I drew that from a pic my wife took of me. It was sunny out.

any acans, shrooms, zoos left?

hehe, things like this make me giddy like a school girl. if anyone wants a picture of my face on their iphone, feel free to add my website to their iphone. www.subcultpop.com

hey! that is pretty neato torpedo! i think i'll do that for my art site. not that anyone but myself would want it, but still, really neat. once i edit the code and upload the .png image, how do i get it on my iphone home screen? i r confuzed. edit: nevermind, i figured it out

the wedding veil trick works pretty good. i would just take a piece of rubble, and put the mushroom on it, and rubber band some veil around the rock and shroom. don't squish it , but tight enough to keep it in place. then take the veil off in a week or two and it should be attached.

that's great. i will have to order a shirt then.

i was just curious if anyone has bought one of the ARC tshirts. how do they look?

i felt sick looking at the photo with the kids playing in it. don't they know that is fish poop foam?!! GROSS!

hey! that tutorial is pimp andrew!

nope. no extreme cases of released toxins that i know of. i dont even keep zoos. well, just a small patch. i'm starting to think that i have a cursed tank with an awesome clean up crew.

i thought about the mantis thing, but i've never heard any popping noises and if it was a spearer, i probably would have seen him as i look at my tank a lot. i used to keep dwarf lionfish in my tank. i absolutely love them, but i was scared to stick my hand in the tank to move or feed the corals. so no more venomous fish with pokey spines for me. never got stuck, but i never want to either.

so..i've decided that I'm not going to have fish any more. just corals. i have the absolute worst luck with fish. on top of not being able to properly care for the fish, they just disappear. my parameters check out ok. my corals are doing just fine, but when ever i put a fish in my tank, it either dies, or disappears. the dead fish i can deal with, but the ones that disappear have me very puzzled. i have a hang on the back refugium. nope, not in there. not in the sump. if it did die, where is the corpse? if it did die, why is there no ammonia spike a few days later? if i move the live rock around, no fishy bodies. i have a cover on the tank, so if they jumped out, they would land in the refugium or possibly get behind the tank. no fish behind the tank. no decomposing fish smell ever either. maybe my dog found them on the floor and ate them? possible, as he will eat anything. is there something in my tank eating my fish?! that is what scares me the most. what if there really is a monster in my tank eating my fish? could a monster infestation of bristle worms kill a fish and eat it all before an ammonia spike? i did have a problem with bristle worms before i got an arrow crab. now the worms are too scared to come out. i dont think there is a mantis in my tank as i've never ever ever heard any smashing sounds or seen anything that might look like a mantis and i spend a lot of time looking at the tank. at any rate, i'm tired of my fish disappearing. anyone have any ideas of what might be happening?

welcome to club A.J. !!

1. When I was a teenager, I spent a summer working as a carnie and traveled around to different fairs and carnivals , sleeping in an airstream 2. I've been a state champion in wrestling 3. When I first met my wife, this was my pickup line , " I forgot how to tie my shoelaces, so....can i have your phone number?" ( we're married now, so it totally worked ) 4. I have a french bulldog named Pudge, but answers to Bubba 5. My first car was an orange 1980 Triumph TR7 convertible

xenia is such a weed. i left a stalk in a 3gal pico with no light and no water changes for 3 months and it was still alive.

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i have a wicked infestation of bristleworms. it is all my fault though. i have no natural predators in my tank and I feed my lps liberally twice a week. those crazy worms have been living the high life until 2 days ago. i got an arrow crab. i did a slow acclimation over a few hours. and within another few hours he had a bristleworm in his claw. now that crab is demolishing any worm he sees. he battled with a particularly big worm for 6 hours yesterday. i saw him when he first yanked it out of the rock and was astounded that such a scrawny looking crab could manhandle a wriggly, fat, pokey worm. it took him a while, but he finally shoved the whole thing in his mouth. all the while that worm was wriggling away getting eaten alive. i almost felt bad for that worm. but not quite

i have no idea what made it crash. from all the people i talked to, they all attributed it to New Tank Syndrome. apparently a tank can go belly up for no apparent reason. well, i fell prey to that. i do know that my calcium level had dipped extremely low and the alkalinity was a little high. i adjusted for the calcium / alk levels, but still a decline in health for my corals. no parasites to be found. i tried running carbon. i tried running rowa-phos. all to no avail. so after losing some corals, i asked BigClay to hold my left overs and just let the tank crash. it went through a cycle again and is just now getting out of the 2nd/3rd algae bloom phase. i kept a piece of cabage coral and dome digitata in the tank for the entire time so i could gauge what was going on in the tank. the cabbage coral is polyping out again and is taking on color and is looking like it used to. the digitata is still hanging in there. it has completely bleached but still polyps out. so, i think it is ready for my old corals again. i'm currently testing it with another coral for a week or so to see if it will be ok. so far so good.

so, where has iflytoohigh been?? did he disappear? no, i didn't disappear but i've been taking a hiatus from the saltwater tanks. i've been letting my tanks cycle for the last few months. my 20 gallon crashed and the same with my 3gal. i was so sad because i lost about half my corals. luckily , BigClay was able to save my favorites (acan lords) by housing them in his 58gal for me. well, it has been about 2-3 months since then and i've done a lots of water changes and my parameters have checked out for the past month. and now it is time to start testing the waters with corals again. oh geez, i can't wait to see my tank with corals in it again. wish me luck!

i will be there. possibly my wife too.