KOgle's 180 diary

Its not cheap now Otty, its financially challenged college guy ;D

I cant wait to see this thing in person!! Looks amazing Kris, Keep it up.

 

He can just move money from his habit over to his hobby and be just fine.

 

Roger told me Epsom salt is great... no problem in dosing it at all. I would stick with it, not all of us have Honda money!! To confirm your question/theory Kris, I always dose in a cup of RO/DI water, stir it and let it dissolve then dump it in. With the epsom salt I find that I can add about 1/2 cup to a large glass (maybe 24 oz?) and mix it up and it will dissolve. If I try to mix more than that in a glass it takes FOREVER to dissolve! Just what has worked for me... 3 lbs of epsom salt for a couple bucks fits my budget perfectly!

 

Yea I'm going to have to dose a cup or so tonight so I'll try dissolving it in RO/DI water first.

I took Amcarrig's advice and pulled some of the orange zoa's off of the rock they were on, (the rock with the bryopsis on it) left them in QT for a couple days unattached, rinsed them in fresh water last night, and rubber banded them to a fresh piece of base rock. I then placed them in the display. They opened up good by the end of the evening. I only got about 10 polyps but it's ok. I think originally I only had 25 and now I've still got 200 or so polyps in the QT tank.

If I had some experience shipping frags I'd offer them up for sale. they really are some good looking zoas...

 

I will still take a couple and do the same thing if you are still offering them up... I need to stop by and get those and that hammer if it is still an open offer! Karma for Kogle for watching the fishies for me this weekend!!!

 

Yea I've still got that hammer. I'm going to frag it all up for the meeting this weekend at Scott's.

 

Looks awesome.....

 

Thanks for the complement baugherb!!! ;D;D;D

It's really coming along nicely. Only problem I'm having is some pesky hair algae growing in the sand bed of all places. I need to get my po4 reactor fired up and sucking the phosphates out of there!

 

I got tired of waiting on the Naso tang to do his job so I fired up the phosphate reactor the other night. I can already see the algea bloom going away after just a couple of days.

I'm at the point where I need to add some more clean up crew and another fish. I'm thinking about a foxface or a lawnmower blenny. Can't decide.

 

Lawnmower would be a great addition. Planned on going to INDMAS meeting saturday and stop at Premium Aquatics on the way.