Haven't been around much... new FTS!

[fidojoe]

Figured I'd give y'all an update

Today I rescaped and scrubbed about 5lbs of bubble algae off my rocks. Yuck!

Here's what I spent my day doing-

Here's the tank pre-scape

I used a couple tanks that I have lying around to hold stuff while I work on the tank (29g & 10g).

Sidney peaking around the edge

Making water (had to move some of the production into my bedroom, as I ran out of room in the narrow hallway)

Draining water into the 10g w/ frag rack

The 10g with corals

The 29g with LR (I thought my hanger w/ the "fish towel" to dry my hands was pretty ingenious )

And the finished product (most stuff is still closed up)

And I added this guy too! Atlantic blue tang

 

[fidojoe]

And since you guys like the eye candy, I figured I'd snap some macros before the tear down...

Yellow watchman (We have staring contests all the time)

Red cap

Mint green palys

Orange digi (yes the pic is doctored, but the stupid camera picks it up as brown, so I changed it to its real color)

My big toadstool leather

My blue hammer that I almost lost to a clown goby. It is almost back to the size that it was. I salvaged it off of tiny little buds that were coming off the sides.

GSP's

Frogspawn and hammer

Blue candycane

Blue ridge coral

 

[lcstorc]

Great pics! The new scape looks great!
I hope you got all of the bubbles. Best of luck.

 

[fidojoe]

Thanks

 

[saltwaterfarm]

Wow great pics. Love the new scaping.

 

[Whiskey]

Great tank! Amasing pics.

Whiskey

 

[KodiakBear]

Great pics, but you left one out... How's the puppy doing?

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Awesome job on the rescape!

 

[fidojoe]

Thanks for the compliments!

Sid (short for Sidney) is doing great! She's really playful, but she loves to just hang out too.

This is the best pic I could get... I had to take it standing up, because she wanted my camera, she didn't like the beeping sounds it was making

 

[sasquatch]

Wow your back with a vengence.Steve

 

[aquaman3680]

Awesome tank! Looks great!

Matt

 

[lcstorc]

Adorable puppy.

 

[fidojoe]

Thanks

She's cute and fun, but she can be a handful too! I just got home from school, so she greeted me like she normally does, a sprint to the door, jumping around on her hind legs begging me to pet her, so I do. I drop all my stuff in my room, then go sit on the floor in front of the tank to check my skimmer. First she tried to pull my hand with a gentle "bite" to get me to play on the carpet where she has traction, but when I don't budge, she tries to lick my face off, don't let her, so she gives up and curls up in my lap.

Oh, I have a question...

I had to remove one of the rocks that my toadstool leather was attached to. I left it on the rock that it was more attached to, and it was doing fine and standing up yesterday, but today I found it kinda flopped over. It is starting to open normally again, but it just doesn't stand up. It has plenty of rock attached to it to be self supporting. Should I do something to help support it? I have some of those untreated wood skewers, I could wedge one of those into the rock and tie the trunk of the leather to it, like a tree support. Would that help?

 

[Craig Manoukian]

I'd let it be. The support might do damage to or irritate the soft tissue, eh?

 

[Woodstock]

Leather corals are huge pouters when disturbed.... more so if you touch them with your bare hands. Give it a few days to perk back up. It should be fine. I would not support it but let it 'do what it wants'. Tieing something to it will eventually cut into its flesh.

 

[fidojoe]

Good points. I'll leave it alone. It seems to be doing fine today, but it is still drooped over.