Good Morning!

vetteguy53081 · Jan 5, 2022

Last night I ordered a glass of wine with my dinner. I was a little surprised when the waiter asked to see my I.D. “Do I look that young?” I asked. “No,” he responded. “I was checking to see if you qualified for the senior discount.”

WiscoFishNut · Jan 5, 2022

Good morning! Looking forward to a box from BRS today - ReefNexus kit for my ReefBreeders Photon 48-V2+, a booster p[ump for my RODI setup(only getting 40-45 psi from my well water), more GFO, more All for reef, and a fancy doser reservoir.

My wife has been "encouraging" me to hurry up and move the tank so I can finish the flooring under it. Any strategies on how to to stall/turn this into an upgrade opportunity?! lol

I got this thing to use as a temporary holding tank for everything while I do the tank shuffle. It says food grade plastic, so I assume its good for at least a few days as a temporary home?

MrsBugmaster · Jan 5, 2022

WiscoFishNut said:
Good morning! Looking forward to a box from BRS today - ReefNexus kit for my ReefBreeders Photon 48-V2+, a booster p[ump for my RODI setup(only getting 40-45 psi from my well water), more GFO, more All for reef, and a fancy doser reservoir.

My wife has been "encouraging" me to hurry up and move the tank so I can finish the flooring under it. Any strategies on how to to stall/turn this into an upgrade opportunity?! lol

I got this thing to use as a temporary holding tank for everything while I do the tank shuffle. It says food grade plastic, so I assume its good for at least a few days as a temporary home?

Well if everything is in a stock tank and your tank is empty, maybe somehow something accidently falls on or hits the tank and breaks it...oops. Then tell wife as long as I have to buy a new tank.....

dbowman5 · Jan 5, 2022

Good Morning! two green chromis, one sapphire damsel, one clown, one lawnmower blenny, two skunk shrimp, one black molly (in the sump)
what? this is a salt census year, isn't it?

dbowman5 · Jan 5, 2022

MrsBugmaster said:
Well if everything is in a stock tank and your tank is empty, maybe somehow something accidently falls on or hits the tank and breaks it...oops. Then tell wife as long as I have to buy a new tank.....

i thought: "OMG! look at the condition of this side seal, i am not real comfortable continuing to use this tank, Honey. let me think about it , you know, the fish look a little stressed, i hear that can be caused by crowding. hmmmm poor things, what do you think we ought to do? "

WiscoFishNut · Jan 5, 2022

MrsBugmaster said:
Well if everything is in a stock tank and your tank is empty, maybe somehow something accidently falls on or hits the tank and breaks it...oops. Then tell wife as long as I have to buy a new tank.....

dbowman5 said:
i thought: "OMG! look at the condition of this side seal, i am not real comfortable continuing to use this tank, Honey. let me think about it , you know, the fish look a little stressed, i hear that can be caused by crowding. hmmmm poor things, what do you think we ought to do? "

Great strategies! Figure our good luck - the booster pump for the RODI is coming today, and I still have all of those empty 5 gallon jugs just laying around. And what's this? 75 pounds of a marco rock I forgot about?!

Just John · Jan 5, 2022

vetteguy53081 said:
Last night I ordered a glass of wine with my dinner. I was a little surprised when the waiter asked to see my I.D. “Do I look that young?” I asked. “No,” he responded. “I was checking to see if you qualified for the senior discount.”

This basically happened to me. When I turned 50 my daughter had been kidding me about getting old. A couple of days later we went out and I was asked if I would be getting the 65 or older senior discount!

Good morning everyone!

ReefGrammie · Jan 5, 2022

WiscoFishNut said:
Good morning! Looking forward to a box from BRS today - ReefNexus kit for my ReefBreeders Photon 48-V2+, a booster p[ump for my RODI setup(only getting 40-45 psi from my well water), more GFO, more All for reef, and a fancy doser reservoir.

My wife has been "encouraging" me to hurry up and move the tank so I can finish the flooring under it. Any strategies on how to to stall/turn this into an upgrade opportunity?! lol

I got this thing to use as a temporary holding tank for everything while I do the tank shuffle. It says food grade plastic, so I assume its good for at least a few days as a temporary home?

Wow, that's big! My tank transfer from the 46 to the 90 consisted of probably 7 Rubbermaid totes and lots of small heaters (I probably spent more than you're spending)! I think that would work fine!

WiscoFishNut · Jan 5, 2022

ReefGrammie said:
Wow, that's big! My tank transfer from the 46 to the 90 consisted of probably 7 Rubbermaid totes and lots of small heaters (I probably spent more than you're spending)! I think that would work fine!

My logic was that if crap went sideways really bad for some reason it would be much easier if I had everything in one big stock tank instead of multiple coolers or totes or whatever. We'll see if I'm as smart as I think I am lol

MrsBugmaster · Jan 5, 2022

dbowman5 said:
i thought: "OMG! look at the condition of this side seal, i am not real comfortable continuing to use this tank, Honey. let me think about it , you know, the fish look a little stressed, i hear that can be caused by crowding. hmmmm poor things, what do you think we ought to do? "

that may work too

ReefGrammie · Jan 5, 2022

Good late morning! I almost had a panic attack....large coral shipment scheduled to arrive today. I kept having flashbacks to the NJ flood (my last coral shipment), crazy winter weather this week, pandemic shipping delays....everything! I was questioning my sanity. Why did I buy in January? Why did I buy during a pandemic? Well, thank goodness it's all here. Everything looks good and is in the tanks. Let the light acclimation begin!

vetteguy53081 · Jan 5, 2022

This is real
Woman orders a hot wing meal from KFC - Guess its real Chicken

dbowman5 · Jan 6, 2022

Good pre-dawn Good Morning to ya all!
need to be up by eight so of course my internal alarm goes off at 5:45. i couldn't find the snooze but i found the 'I am going to lay here and act like I am going back to sleep' button for a half hour. then gave up and started the coffee.

Paul B · Jan 6, 2022

Just John said:
A couple of days later we went out and I was asked if I would be getting the 65 or older senior discount!

I get that.

WVNed · Jan 6, 2022

Good morning. It's supposed to snow today.

ReefGrammie · Jan 6, 2022

Good morning! It's supposed to snow here today, too, which usually means absolutely nothing!

Just John · Jan 6, 2022

Good morning! I walked around without crutches for 5 minutes yesterday. Yay me! Dino's are gone. Awesome.

WVNed · Jan 6, 2022

Last dinos here were about 70 million years ago

Peace River · Jan 6, 2022

WiscoFishNut said:
Good morning! Looking forward to a box from BRS today - ReefNexus kit for my ReefBreeders Photon 48-V2+, a booster p[ump for my RODI setup(only getting 40-45 psi from my well water), more GFO, more All for reef, and a fancy doser reservoir.

My wife has been "encouraging" me to hurry up and move the tank so I can finish the flooring under it. Any strategies on how to to stall/turn this into an upgrade opportunity?! lol

I got this thing to use as a temporary holding tank for everything while I do the tank shuffle. It says food grade plastic, so I assume its good for at least a few days as a temporary home?

The tank should be fine - I have used those for both fresh and saltwater. The one thing that I have found is that side walls are not all created equal and the ones in that price range and shape often tend to bow on the sides when they are filled. IME, even though it is a 100g, I would expect that you reasonably can plan to fill it to the second line without issues (probably about 60g of water).