Macro Algae Decorator Crab Fuge

[RichtheReefer21]

Thank you, I read a description about food chains earlier, how it should work!
I always felt that "clinical" wasn't the way it should be done but you do have to deal with nutrients somehow!
A lot of thought and few sit down with a coffee discussions were had designing the tank, I designed the tank and my lfs manager designed the sump.
I would never recommend running a tank my way but I think there could be one or 2 things that make people think that maybe there is a simpler way to do this or that!

I got called a "guru" to my face the other day, I have had that on the interweb as well, it makes me very uncomfortable, I'm just a bloke trying to do things a bit more simply!

New badge for u simon...

Refugium guru

 

[najer]

How is the little grubby puddle doing?

 

[RichtheReefer21]

How is the little grubby puddle doing?

No change. My better half and myself are considering a move... so all things tank are on hold.

Might be selling it all.

 

[najer]

Oh, I hope you get things sorted.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Oh, I hope you get things sorted.

Need to find work, and I figure why settle. Go big. The rocky mountains are truely our Purple Mountains Majesty.

My heart is in the wilderness. Cities arent for me. I want to be free to walk to my mailbox naked type of country boy. Ha.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

@najer

I'm not caught up on most threads completely. Hows the job situation?

 

[najer]

@najer

I'm not caught up on most threads completely. Hows the job situation?

Thanks for asking, still living month to month, I am ok through June currently.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Thanks for asking, still living month to month, I am ok through June currently.

I am planning a move to restart in the mountains in the west/central u.s... gonna hang tight until some things change, and then sadly. I will have to sell everything off in the future. Not sure when yet. But a reboot will follow soon after. I will likely hold off on the macro and new additions unless something changes, which it wont.

For now this will chug along... as it is.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Unless of course someone would like to donate some of their trimmings.

I will pay for shipping

 

[samnaz]

Good luck with the move, I wish I had some trimmings to donate!

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Good luck with the move, I wish I had some trimmings to donate!

Thanks, it is far down the road. And I will likely sell everything here, open house almost, piece out the tank, and just go there with minimal stuff. Start over with everything when I get there.

 

[samnaz]

man I was looking forward to following this one.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

man I was looking forward to following this one.

If I can talk my better half into finishing what I started, it may be full of macro next week and have a decorator crab. We really dont know if we will have the child for a month, or a year. It's really out of our hands.

We shall see.

 

[samnaz]

If I can talk my better half into finishing what I started, it may be full of macro next week and have a decorator crab. We really dont know if we will have the child for a month, or a year. It's really out of our hands.

We shall see.

are you adopting? sorry if I missed that bit of info in a previous post?

 

[RichtheReefer21]

are you adopting? sorry if I missed that bit of info in a previous post?

The story is my actual build thread for this system. Qe have temporary custody of my girls' niece while the mother and father go through the system and get approved to have her back. Sad story.

So until she is released from our care, the tank will remain running.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Little update.

Recieved a gift from a semi-local friend. Thanks @Scurvy for the generous gift.

It should be installed this weekend.

Still not a cut of macro, waiting for AlgaeBarn to have a sale...

Any other recommendations?

 

[najer]

Nice, hope the new additions settle well for you.

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[najer]

That was my piece above, I wish I could send you some, this is the rescue piece, just had a clean, it will be fragged once it has settled for a bit longer.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

That was my piece above, I wish I could send you some, this is the rescue piece, just had a clean, it will be fragged once it has settled for a bit longer.

I was waiting for you to share the "impulse" buy that required overfeeding

 

[najer]

I was waiting for you to share the "impulse" buy that required overfeeding

First things first, official unveiling now.
I got this 11 days ago, it was in a hell off a state.
This was also just powerhead cleaned when it went in, not brushed.
All you could see was flesh colour in places, all skinny flesh, it is lilac / lavender with gold polyps, early days still but looks promising!