I got my Man!

caitrina · 08-18-2007, 04:36 PM

Well, Friday was a day I had an excuse to reward myself and so I did. After a day of running around trying to tie up loose ends with businesses and fighting with Estate things I decided to get it...My Mandarine!

SO there I was trying my best to keep my car from going on auto-pilot to the nearest LFS, but you know how that is..a car gets something on its mind and you have no control. Kind of like the corals and things that hop in our cars at the LFS. OK, I gave in, let my car take me to the LFS I went into the LFS and I found one I liked, got him, got more pods to put in my little pod farm I had set up a few weeks ago and some other things I needed. Brought him home, had a disaster after acclimating him and ended up having to put him in the main tank...

This picture is not good at all, but if I ever see him again I will take another picture.

bluespotjawfish · 08-18-2007, 04:41 PM

Handsome!

You will need to explain what disaster means...

tbittner · 08-18-2007, 05:53 PM

Very nice fish! Congratulations! I REALLY want one, as does my wife, but we are waiting until I get the huge refugium/sump completed and let everything settle in for a few months after that.

Now! About your title! How about a picture of the MAN you got? Aren't you interested in knowing whether we approve or not?

kimoy · 08-18-2007, 05:57 PM

congratulations. i had mine 4 months after i set up my tank and still has him live and healthy. he's been through an upgrade and never shown any stress. he now eats frozen mysis.

hma · 08-18-2007, 06:12 PM

Congratulations Caitrina.... wonderfull mandarin, now you must be happy!!

My mandarin couple

kinghokus420 · 08-18-2007, 06:26 PM

very nice! mines coming soon.

caitrina · 08-20-2007, 09:18 AM

I think I should start pondering over some of the thread starter lines that I am creating, huh? You put them together, what can I say I have a sense of humor...

well the disaster with the MANdarin was once I got him home and acclimated to the small QT tank I had...everything going fine, he was swimming around, looking at his new temp home, looking as pretty as can be. I sat mesmerized watching him and when I went to get up I couldn't move very well, that happens when I sit for any length of time, (injuries) well the knees wouldn't bend, the pain shot up and down my legs into my back and to finish a long story about shooting pain, misery, aching, blah blah blah, the little QT tank somehow ended on the floor along with my new little Mandarin I waited a year and a half for. I managed to get him up and had to get him in the main tank...he sat there for awhile, probably trying to figure out what in the world he had gotten himself into and then after awhile he swam away into the tunnels and caves of LR. I do see him in the mornings in the safety of the rock, and I saw him venture out a little (before I turned on lights) to grab some live brine I threw in there, so far so good. Poor little guy is probably so traumatized he doesn't want to be seen...

caitrina · 08-20-2007, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hma

Congratulations Caitrina.... wonderfull mandarin, now you must be happy!!

My mandarin couple

Thank you Heinz. Great little video clip . I love it.

Thanks to everyone else for the well wishes and for those of you waiting for that first Mandarin...it is worth the wait. Even if I don't get to see mine much (yet) the glimpses I catch are well worth it.

swissgaurd · 08-20-2007, 09:25 AM

i have a feeling that this fish will be loyal to you

vic

DrHank · 08-20-2007, 09:32 AM

Somebody bent forward and twisted at the same time. She didn't even know that she did it. A lumbar vertebra got stuck out of place (to oversimplify it). Now she needs a chiropractor.

Glad your manderine is ok. Hope you will be too.

Dentoid · 08-20-2007, 09:33 AM

Aweeeeeee! Poor little guy. The 5 second rule not only applies to food on the floor, but it also extends to fish!

My BSJF jumped out of the tank onto the floor several months ago. She is still with me today!

Congratulations on your new man...darin!

hma · 08-20-2007, 09:40 AM

I’m terribly sorry..... roughly all things come to those who wait, my mandarins too are scarcely visible.

caitrina · 08-20-2007, 11:51 PM

Thanks Scott for the name Darin...

...I am surprised I didn't see that ---I like playing with words...My Man--Darin! Anyway, Just an update...I see my Man---darin in the mornings before I turn on the lights. I have gotten some pics of him peeking through the rocks which I will post when I get a better one of him. So far so good and it is good to know he is alive and well after the disaster....

hma · 08-21-2007, 12:17 AM

.... we want pic's, we want pic's ......we want pics

lcstorc · 08-25-2007, 09:46 PM

I am so glad you finally got one. I know you have been waiting forever and if anyone can keep this guy nice and healthy it is definitely you.
congrats!!!!

08-18-2007, 04:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
caitrina Golden Moray Join Date: May 2007 Location: Somewhere in Florida Posts: 2,588 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	I got my Man! Well, Friday was a day I had an excuse to reward myself and so I did. After a day of running around trying to tie up loose ends with businesses and fighting with Estate things I decided to get it...My Mandarine! SO there I was trying my best to keep my car from going on auto-pilot to the nearest LFS, but you know how that is..a car gets something on its mind and you have no control. Kind of like the corals and things that hop in our cars at the LFS. OK, I gave in, let my car take me to the LFS I went into the LFS and I found one I liked, got him, got more pods to put in my little pod farm I had set up a few weeks ago and some other things I needed. Brought him home, had a disaster after acclimating him and ended up having to put him in the main tank... This picture is not good at all, but if I ever see him again I will take another picture. __________________ A reef tank is like a potato chip, you can't have just one! Chronicles Cat's Healing Gift: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ling-gift.html Cat’s 90 Gallon Toy: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...allon-toy.html 24 G Mystery Pod: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...stery-pod.html

08-18-2007, 04:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
bluespotjawfish Tridacna maxima Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 4,170 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: I got my Man! Handsome! You will need to explain what disaster means... __________________ Lorraine To BB and all Bluespots - Journey of the 2nd Year ...The 2nd Year - Photoshow Check out Mr. BJ and friends... Mr. BJ's Aquarium - PhotoShow

08-18-2007, 05:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! Very nice fish! Congratulations! I REALLY want one, as does my wife, but we are waiting until I get the huge refugium/sump completed and let everything settle in for a few months after that. Now! About your title! How about a picture of the MAN you got? Aren't you interested in knowing whether we approve or not? __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

08-18-2007, 05:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
kimoy Sea Pen Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 338 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! congratulations. i had mine 4 months after i set up my tank and still has him live and healthy. he's been through an upgrade and never shown any stress. he now eats frozen mysis. __________________ 1.20 G pico RR with 2 megaflow kits, aqua c EV180 with mag12, 2x250 DE 12k halides with 2x54 T5 actinic+, 30G phlenum fuge with chaeto, iwaki 55rlt return pump connected to a sea swirl, 4 tunze 6025 inside the main tank for water circulation (2 are modded) 3 Koralias PH(2 #4's and 1 #3) sps,lps,zoas,softies,pink tip BTA tangs - yellow, unicorn, blue hippo, palini and RS Purple Blue Spot Jaw Fish red lyretail anthias pair of spotted mandarin goby wrasse - yellow corris scribble rabbit fish Clown Fish -3 percula high fin shrimp goby clean up crew - various snails and crabs, red linkia star And a 30G AGA softies with clown & diamond head goby

08-18-2007, 06:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
hma Acropora Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Posts: 1,982 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! Congratulations Caitrina.... wonderfull mandarin, now you must be happy!! My mandarin couple __________________ Heinz Luck is a good health and a bad memory (Albert Schweitzer) Balling Method : Balling +Plus Video : Centropyge potteri Tools : Balling Calculator My Chronicle and ReefDreams HM-Aquarium Photo Calendar 2008 "IF SHARKS DIE, THE SEA DIES"

08-18-2007, 06:26 PM	#6 (permalink)
kinghokus420 Scopas Tang Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: paradise ca.(northern) Posts: 433 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: I got my Man! very nice! mines coming soon. __________________ josh Chico Reef Club chicoreefclub.org

08-20-2007, 09:18 AM	#7 (permalink)
caitrina Golden Moray Join Date: May 2007 Location: Somewhere in Florida Posts: 2,588 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! I think I should start pondering over some of the thread starter lines that I am creating, huh? You put them together, what can I say I have a sense of humor... well the disaster with the MANdarin was once I got him home and acclimated to the small QT tank I had...everything going fine, he was swimming around, looking at his new temp home, looking as pretty as can be. I sat mesmerized watching him and when I went to get up I couldn't move very well, that happens when I sit for any length of time, (injuries) well the knees wouldn't bend, the pain shot up and down my legs into my back and to finish a long story about shooting pain, misery, aching, blah blah blah, the little QT tank somehow ended on the floor along with my new little Mandarin I waited a year and a half for. I managed to get him up and had to get him in the main tank...he sat there for awhile, probably trying to figure out what in the world he had gotten himself into and then after awhile he swam away into the tunnels and caves of LR. I do see him in the mornings in the safety of the rock, and I saw him venture out a little (before I turned on lights) to grab some live brine I threw in there, so far so good. Poor little guy is probably so traumatized he doesn't want to be seen... __________________ A reef tank is like a potato chip, you can't have just one! Chronicles Cat's Healing Gift: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ling-gift.html Cat’s 90 Gallon Toy: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...allon-toy.html 24 G Mystery Pod: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...stery-pod.html

08-20-2007, 09:25 AM	#9 (permalink)
swissgaurd Scopas Tang Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: mississauga,canada Posts: 408 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: I got my Man! i have a feeling that this fish will be loyal to you vic __________________ BOTH TANKS ON PRODIBO 82 gallon mixed reef,in sump chaeto,mangroves refuge.dual 250 watt 12K reeflux, in a PFO pendant powered by icecaps,2x 110 VHO actinics/ ice caps.approx.70 lbs indo rock.tunze top up system. junior MTC calcium reactor.ASM G2 skimmer,SWISSGAURD, powder blue tang,mated pair of GSM's,multicolor angel,green wrasse,purple fire goby,blue eye tang,ocean tang,in the sump:mated pair of oc's,mated pair of black darwin clowns,sps,zoos,softies,frogspawn,mushrooms,candyc ane,maxima clam,xenia, nass.,astrea snails,serpant,brittle stars,sea cucumbers 90 gal diamond, T5 lighting,berlin classic skimmer, 50lbs fiji live rock,tons of frogspawn,yellow tang,4 black saddlebacks,mated pair pink skunks,3 true percs,ocean tang. both tanks running on redsea pro.

08-20-2007, 09:32 AM	#10 (permalink)
DrHank Golden Moray Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Crestview, FL Posts: 2,251 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: I got my Man! Somebody bent forward and twisted at the same time. She didn't even know that she did it. A lumbar vertebra got stuck out of place (to oversimplify it). Now she needs a chiropractor. Glad your manderine is ok. Hope you will be too. __________________ Jim Dr Hank's 210 Build: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...nks-tanks.html Dr Hank's 155 Bowfront:http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...-bowfront.html

08-20-2007, 09:33 AM	#11 (permalink)
Dentoid Over Achiever Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 10,240 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: I got my Man! Aweeeeeee! Poor little guy. The 5 second rule not only applies to food on the floor, but it also extends to fish! My BSJF jumped out of the tank onto the floor several months ago. She is still with me today! Congratulations on your new man...darin! __________________ Scott Dentoid's Reeforama

08-20-2007, 09:40 AM	#12 (permalink)
hma Acropora Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Posts: 1,982 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! I’m terribly sorry..... roughly all things come to those who wait, my mandarins too are scarcely visible. __________________ Heinz Luck is a good health and a bad memory (Albert Schweitzer) Balling Method : Balling +Plus Video : Centropyge potteri Tools : Balling Calculator My Chronicle and ReefDreams HM-Aquarium Photo Calendar 2008 "IF SHARKS DIE, THE SEA DIES"

08-20-2007, 11:51 PM	#13 (permalink)
caitrina Golden Moray Join Date: May 2007 Location: Somewhere in Florida Posts: 2,588 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! Thanks Scott for the name Darin......I am surprised I didn't see that ---I like playing with words...My Man--Darin! Anyway, Just an update...I see my Man---darin in the mornings before I turn on the lights. I have gotten some pics of him peeking through the rocks which I will post when I get a better one of him. So far so good and it is good to know he is alive and well after the disaster.... __________________ A reef tank is like a potato chip, you can't have just one! Chronicles Cat's Healing Gift: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...ling-gift.html Cat’s 90 Gallon Toy: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...allon-toy.html 24 G Mystery Pod: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...stery-pod.html Last edited by caitrina : 08-20-2007 at 11:53 PM. Reason: forgot something

08-21-2007, 12:17 AM	#14 (permalink)
hma Acropora Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Posts: 1,982 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! .... we want pic's, we want pic's ......we want pics __________________ Heinz Luck is a good health and a bad memory (Albert Schweitzer) Balling Method : Balling +Plus Video : Centropyge potteri Tools : Balling Calculator My Chronicle and ReefDreams HM-Aquarium Photo Calendar 2008 "IF SHARKS DIE, THE SEA DIES"

08-25-2007, 09:46 PM	#15 (permalink)
lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 18,891 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: I got my Man! I am so glad you finally got one. I know you have been waiting forever and if anyone can keep this guy nice and healthy it is definitely you. congrats!!!! __________________ Peace LYNN You can't change the past but you can change how you view it. A reef tank is like a racecar. The faster you go the harder you crash. Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Every 60 seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

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