Turtle's Fairy Tale

Brew12 · Jul 2, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
Yea I hope so.

So I've been on the notification list for a large bucket of the Fiji mud, as I liked it in the Deep Blue. We even recycled the mud that was in there. It still felt like mud... anyway, It JUST donned on me why there isn't any available. Fiji shut down all collection of fish coral and rock, and evidently mud.

I do like my Fiji mud too. Worried that it won't be replaceable although it should last me a long time.

SashimiTurtle · Jul 2, 2018

Brew12 said:
I do like my Fiji mud too. Worried that it won't be replaceable although it should last me a long time.

I just want a little more... I only have the small bucket because of the limited space in the last sump. I think one more small bucket would be enough, but if it comes available again I'll be ordering the large bucket.

SashimiTurtle · Jul 3, 2018

Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for!!!

FTS 7/3/18

Water is still a tad milky from the sand. Im not a huge fan of this ocean dirrect. Probably should have went with the Fiji pink mixed with Bimini pink. This stuff has so many fines in it even after rinsing all of it. My water still clouded up.

Oh, yea I moved some corals over. The two small acan colonies and my trachy. My teal and orange acan almost didn't make it, it still might not. The large original polpy bought as a frag last September bailed out. There are babies all around that are mostly deflated or on the way to bailing. Hopefully, it'll keep a few polyps and I can grow it back out. The green and I think purple(needs to color up...) acan and my trachy are doing great. It took the trachy absolutely no time to inflate back up from moving it over.

Brew12 · Jul 3, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for!!!

FTS 7/3/18

Water is still a tad milky from the sand. Im not a huge fan of this ocean dirrect. Probably should have went with the Fiji pink mixed with Bimini pink. This stuff has so many fines in it even after rinsing all of it. My water still clouded up.

Oh, yea I moved some corals over. The two small acan colonies and my trachy. My teal and orange acan almost didn't make it, it still might not the large original polpy bought as a frag last September bailed out. There are babies all around that are mostly deflated or on the way to bailing. Hopefully it'll keep a few polyps and I can grow it back out. The green and I think purple(needs to color up...) acan and my trachy are doing great. It took the trachy absolutely no time to inflate back up from moving it over.

Fantastic!!!!

Hopefully they adjust to the quick move ok!

Tmm87 · Jul 3, 2018

Good luck! Hopefully the issues are over.

hwntunda · Jul 4, 2018

Glad to see it filled up!

SashimiTurtle · Jul 4, 2018

Happy Independence day America! @najer... umm carry on with your day I guess.

Super happy trachy photo... cut a soft ball in half, and this thing is bigger than that.

NY_Caveman · Jul 4, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
Happy Independence day America! @najer... umm carry on with your day I guess.

Super happy trachy photo... cut a soft ball in half, and this thing is bigger than that.

Looks happy! Happy 4th to you as well Turtle!

SashimiTurtle · Jul 5, 2018

Water is crystal clear, but I'm having some micro bubbles from one of the returns...

They are coming from this one, on the left.

Then the gyre picks them up and sends them to the other side of the tank. Yes, that is a nassarius snail on the gyre.

The tank doesn't look full of bubbles tho, it's just not crystal clear up close.

Aaron-A2 · Jul 5, 2018

Man, I love your tank!

SashimiTurtle · Jul 5, 2018

Byronyk said:
Man, I love your tank!

Well thank you.

C-Reefer · Jul 5, 2018

Hmmm is there water falling somewhere in yuor AIO section? I know if I let my floss get too clogged up water level in the back drops and it falls into the pump section. That causes tons of micro bubbles for me.

SashimiTurtle · Jul 5, 2018

C-Reefer said:
Hmmm is there water falling somewhere in yuor AIO section? I know if I let my floss get too clogged up water level in the back drops and it falls into the pump section. That causes tons of micro bubbles for me.

The sump has a bubble trap before the return chamber. I dont see any bubbles getting past, but they could be.

I just changed out my filter sock, and let a bunch of trapped sand dust lose in the process. Slight milky color again. ;Facepalm lol. It'll clear soon.

Scurvy · Jul 5, 2018

That outlet looks really close to waters surface. Possibly just grabbing a little air hear and there? Push it down a touch and see if it stops.

SashimiTurtle · Jul 5, 2018

Scurvy said:
That outlet looks really close to waters surface. Possibly just grabbing a little air hear and there? Push it down a touch and see if it stops.

Yep, thought of that too. Its higher than the other one. We'll check it out just as soon as we check the sump.

Right now, I'm trying to get stretched out from sleeping wrong. Getting older is so much fun. As a kid, you get hurt falling out of a tree, now its from sleeping.

Oh, and shoveling all that, two nights in a row.

Scurvy · Jul 5, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
Getting older is so much fun

I dont know why they say its all down hill after (insert age here).... it certainly feels uphill to me. Big hills... Like Austria hills!

Fudsey · Jul 5, 2018

Scurvy said:
I dont know why they say its all down hill after (insert age here).... it certainly feels uphill to me. Big hills... Like Austria hills!

Ain't that the truth ! ! ! ;Oldman;Oldman

SashimiTurtle · Jul 6, 2018

We got new corals in today!!!

But first, old corals...

Trachy, doing wonderful. It seems really happy where it is, so it stays right there.

Acans, were squishy but not so much now. May need to be moved into more flow. Theres a rock to the right blocking the gyre flow across the bottom. The orange one lost the big main polyp on top in the holding tank.

Monti caps. The one small one that was browned out, but should be pink, when we got it is still browned out. Theres a few bare spots, but nothing serious. It should recover. The big purple and green cap, had to be fragged. It turned almost completely brown and started to die off. Most of the center was dead. We got 5 nice sized frags that will hopefully recover and start growing. I'll pick the best out of the survivors and keep it, and trade/sell off the rest.

Frogspawn, is perfectly healthy. This will be traded/sold. One small bi-color frag, and one large 5 polyp frag of green w/ purple tips.

Zoas, one is whammin watermelon the other is... carp, I'll have to ask again. They have been closed for 5 weeks and the color is off... but they are alive. Hard to get good zoa pics when they point straight up.

Trumpets... not happy with me about the whole holding tank situation. They are starting to come back. Hopefully there's not too much damage.

And the toughest coral I have. Blue sympodium, you cant kill the stuff short of letting it dry out. Even then I think it would take a day or two to fully kill it. This frag sat in the bottom of a rubber made tote with my branch rocks, a heater and power head. No light at all and its about the same size as it was. Hasn't opened all the way, but stick me in the bottom of a box and cover me with rocks for five weeks and I'd take forever to stand up too.