Think I being a little over-optimistic?

I just got home from a nice little road trip to go get me a birthday clam, and ended up coming home with a bit more than I had expected. After looking at my 125 that is supposed to be staged with a 24" x 16" footprint to get me ready for the downsizing I'm not sure if everything I have will fit . . . here is a list and I'll get some pics up in a few.

10-12 ricordeas
5-6 red shrooms
2 blue / purple shrooms
4-5 green / purple striped shrooms
6" RBTA
5 2"-4" zoanthid colonys
5-6" frogspawn
8-9 heads of torch (colony is larger than a softball)
another 3 heads of branching frogspawn
5 headed hammer (baseball size)
7" - 8" Fiji yellow leather
6"+ teardrop maxima clam
4" green nepthea leather
2 candy cane frags with 3-4 heads each
small acan cluster
3-4" red pocillapora mini colony

and for fish / inverts . . .

false perc pair hosting the RBTA
1 firefish
1 strawberry baslet
1 6-line wrasse
a skunk cleaner
pretty big coral banded shrimp
2 peppermint shrimp
3" red linkia star
12-15 astrea / ninja star snails

All planned for a 24" x 16" x 16" tank. anyone got a shoehorn I can borrow?

~Will.

 

that should be pretty packed but IMO it will look awesome!

 

lol fun day for you at the LFS!!!

 

I like your style of optimism

Steve

 

Almost forgot to mention the 5" x 5" GSP mat. lol, I diddn't get all that today tho. I found a great deal on a clam I have wanted for a while and decided to also get a beautiful (second, but different) frogspawn colony, a bunch or rics, and the GSP. With the birthday cash and gas from my wife I was only $40 out of pocket for everything.

I'm really worried about the RBTA, it only moved once on me into a maxijet and that was a nightmare in my big tank, if it decides to move in the smaller one I'll be in really bad shape. All the euphilia concerns me as well, especially around my new clam. Then there is the constant worry in the back of my head the 2 leathers are going to play chemical warfare with each other and make a mess out of everything.

and I thought this was going to be a relaxing hobby . . .

~Will.

 

dang we need pics pronto!!!

 

Pics are incoming!!! I took some like a 20 mins ago with my droid, still waiting them to get to my inbox.


~Will.

 

oh come on!!!! we need them like now or were gonna go on withdrawl!!!

 

sorry, just got back from the movies . . . pics as promised.




and a close up of my sweet birthday clam



~Will.

 

Very nice, I have a feeling a shoe horn will be an exercise in futility, but a fun one none the less.