Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

sfin52 · Jun 22, 2019

Katrina71 said:
Thank you. I like it too, but it is slow growing. The last mini crash it turned black and I thought it was completely dead.

if you want to speed growth try spot feeding mysis.

Lowell Lemon · Jun 22, 2019

Well we have to say good bye to our "daughter" from Germany today at the airport

. She was our exchange student last year and came back for a two week visit this year...what a great adventure for all of us! I highly recommend ISE through the State Department. The world is indeed a small place.

sfin52 · Jun 22, 2019

najer said:
Oops!

Wow

sfin52 · Jun 22, 2019

Lowell Lemon said:
Well we have to say good bye to our "daughter" from Germany today at the airport. She was our exchange student last year and came back for a two week visit this year...what a great adventure for all of us! I highly recommend ISE through the State Department. The world is indeed a small place.

its always hard to say good bye

mch1984 · Jun 22, 2019

All this talk about rain and storms, and here we are burning up. We have had two days last week that we were in the top 5 hottest places in the united states. A couple of those we beat las vegas, yesterday topped out at 107. I think today is suppose to be slightly cooler at 96, but it does look like we are going to get some storms.

sfin52 · Jun 22, 2019

mch1984 said:
All this talk about rain and storms, and here we are burning up. We have had two days last week that we were in the top 5 hottest places in the united states. A couple of those we beat las vegas, yesterday topped out at 107. I think today is suppose to be slightly cooler at 96, but it does look like we are going to get some storms.

more rain today. Last night highways were closed. Thats a first since we moved to Springfield.

mch1984 · Jun 22, 2019

sfin52 said:
more rain today. Last night highways were closed. Thats a first since we moved to Springfield.

That is a lot of rain. One of the few good things about all the heat is that it's usually followed up by big storms. It's like it can only take so much heat and then bam, storms propping up everywhere.

Scurvy · Jun 22, 2019

Man 107 in June... Typical for Phoenix or Vegas, how out of the Norm is that for Midland?

Fin · Jun 22, 2019

This will show you guys just how old I really am.

I ran across this photo today. It is my 200 gallon Oceanic in 1983, right after set up. This is the way saltwater tanks looked 4 decades ago. A lot of progress in the hobby since then. Ha!

Katrina71 · Jun 22, 2019

Tomorrow starts my new schedule. 5 days off in a row. Woo hoo. I'm looking forward to my opportunity to get a job that I don't have to struggle so hard.

Scurvy · Jun 22, 2019

Fin said:
This will show you guys just how old I really am. I ran across this photo today. It is my 200 gallon Oceanic in 1983, right after set up. This is the way saltwater tanks looked 4 decades ago. A lot of progress in the hobby since then. Ha!

I love that scape!! Covered in pinks, purples and red I bet it looked awesome!

sfin52 · Jun 22, 2019

Fin said:
This will show you guys just how old I really am. I ran across this photo today. It is my 200 gallon Oceanic in 1983, right after set up. This is the way saltwater tanks looked 4 decades ago. A lot of progress in the hobby since then. Ha!

I love the look. I read that you would pull out the dead coral and bleach it because the growth was viewed as bad interesting.

@NY_Caveman I read waste away will help control cyano. I bought a bottle, I'll let you know the results.

Scurvy · Jun 22, 2019

sfin52 said:
I love the look. I read that you would pull out the dead coral and bleach it because the growth was viewed as bad interesting.

@NY_Caveman I read waste away will help control cyano. I bought a bottle, I'll let you know the results.

Waste Away in conjunction with Refresh is Dr Tims recipe. Dose one wait a couple days and dose the other. I think it was a 2-4 times cycle off the top of my melon.

Fin · Jun 22, 2019

Scurvy said:
I love that scape!! Covered in pinks, purples and red I bet it looked awesome!

Thanks. I looked high and low for those coral skeletons. My (now) wife's grandparents owned a shell shop on Crystal Beach, just down the road from Galveston. I got a lot of it from them. That stuff wasn't cheap either and they sold it by the pound, not by the polyp.

sfin52 said:
I love the look. I read that you would pull out the dead coral and bleach it because the growth was viewed as bad interesting.

Yeah, it had to look clean. I would just take it out and wash it down with a pressure nozzle and let it sit out in the Louisiana sun for a couple of weeks and it was almost as good as bleaching. I tried not to use bleach very often. I had enough coral that I could put one set in while the other was bleaching out on the deck and I would just swap them out. Oddly enough, I don't have a lot of pictures of the tank and almost none that I can find of the build. I really wish I had pictures of my DIY sump that was underneath it. It was massive.

dantimdad · Jun 22, 2019

Fin said:
This will show you guys just how old I really am. I ran across this photo today. It is my 200 gallon Oceanic in 1983, right after set up. This is the way saltwater tanks looked 4 decades ago. A lot of progress in the hobby since then. Ha!

I would still like to have that.

sfin52 · Jun 22, 2019

look what my son Stefan just got. Had to replace the dead T. This one is should be a little easier to take care of. @Rakie take a gander

Rakie · Jun 22, 2019

sfin52 said:
look what my son Stefan just got. Had to replace the dead T. This one is should be a little easier to take care of. @Rakie take a gander

Looks good! Is that a male or does she just need a few roaches?

sfin52 · Jun 22, 2019

Rakie said:
Looks good! Is that a male or does she just need a few roaches?

I'm not sure. Ive haven't been able to look at its underside

Katrina71 · Jun 22, 2019

@Fin I love the way that looks! Old? No. One of my twit young co-workers said Happy Birthday you old bat, my response was "I prefer experienced predator". We know things.