kgoldy's frankensystem

[kgoldy]

I checked out that reef store around the corner from you... The place is awesome. I'll probably be heading all the way out there once in a while just to window shop. I couldn't believe how many maxi-minis they had.

 

[jerl77]

Cool you should go there on a friday morning they get there coral in Thursday night glad you are happy with a great trade if you in the area you are welcome to stop by for a nice cold beer

I checked out that reef store around the corner from you... The place is awesome. I'll probably be heading all the way out there once in a while just to window shop. I couldn't believe how many maxi-minis they had.

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[kgoldy]

Sweet man. How are those baby dendros lookin? And is the gorgonian settled in with polyps extended yet?

 

[jerl77]

All settled in and happy ha ha ha

Sweet man. How are those baby dendros lookin? And is the gorgonian settled in with polyps extended yet?

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[kgoldy]

Good. Hope you can figure out how to get that dendro to grow around that damn coraline. Haha.

So pretty much everything you gave me looks nice and happy. Might have lost maybe one acan, but it was one of the ones that looked kinda beat up from the start... I've got so many it doesn't really matter if one doesn't make it. Haha

 

[kgoldy]

Picked up a tripod this weekend... But sent in the G10 to get an ugly dent repaired. Might take home one of my G9's from work and snap some pics tonight if I get out at a decent time...

Also put in a MONSTER order with Bulk Reef Supply last week. Lots of new food, supplements, and reef toys to play with... Should be arriving on Tuesday. I got a few gadgets and gizmos like Hanna phosphate and pH checkers, since I can't read the colors on test kits to save my life. Got a bunch of rock rubble too so I can start seeding it with coraline so I can give people my crazy purple stuff.

 

[Awibrandy]

Awibrandy- This one's for you.

Poor Ashley is upset that Stika is laying with the cat. Haha.

Awww, thank you kgoldy! This is a very sweet of you to think of me! (yes I'm a girl)hahahaha not so much anymore though.LOL
Your dogs are beautiful! Are they pities? They look like! The big guy in my avatar passed on last December.;( But we got another, no where near as big as him though. But she is another sweetie.

Got to say you really hit the jackpot with jerl, and the store you went to.
Look forward to watch them grow along side you.

I really find that refugium of yours very interesting. Which I had the room for one.

 

[kgoldy]

The grey one (Ashley) is a purebred bluenose pit, the brown (Stika) is a pit mastiff mix. Both I bought off the side of the road in GA, back when I was in the Army. Glad I took em out of the south... Dog fighting is a HUGE problem down there. Now they're both pampered as dogs can possibly get- and they have a little cat who thinks she's their mom.

 

[wimby]

I have met those great dogs. They are very sweet.

 

[kgoldy]

hey wimby! You going to the swap?

 

[wimby]

No I can't make it. I have a party But I rather be at the swap.

 

[kgoldy]

I'd like to thank Jerl77 for making my tank infinitely more beautiful with an awesome trade.

Now if only I knew the names of all this stuff... Haha.



Okay, pics time. I decided to try shooting in normal JPEG instead of RAW... And I think these pictures look like crap. They're fuzzy and don't seem to be as easy to edit. So... crappy pictures for now. Also, someone needs to teach me how to share from picasa/Google+ easier than right clicking on every photo for the web address then using the [i m g][/ i m g] button above... Like how photobucket gives you the code that copies to your clipboard in one click.

The zoos at the center of this pic have been closed for a few days now... Think damn Vermatid snails are sliming them.

So I've learned that piorites love being blasted with light. The christmas tree worms, not so much. When I got this, it was totally browned out- and at the LFS I actually thought it was just a dead rock. Going to have to sell this thing to someone with dimmer lighting...

 

[kgoldy]

Maxi on the left is from first trade, one on the right is from the last.

Fishing line to prevent Kat's branch from tumbling and mashing my frags. (Again.) Haha

I now understand why people are crazy about chalice. These things are sweet.

No idea what this thing is... It's tiny. Bright green and purple. Kind of looks like favia, it's not fluffy like an acan.

 

[kgoldy]

Purple gorgonian from Reef Cleaners is doing awesome under the waterfall. It's where I dump all filter feeder formula, mysis and ... uhh.... having a Rick Perry moment... what's that red stuff called?

Yellow maxi is the one I bought the day of the big trade... It's the one that went missing for a few days then decided to come out and hug my most successful SPS frag.

Can't ever get GSP to glue to walls... Didn't work in my biocube, and not working in here. Trying tying it up against the wall with fishing line.

 

[kgoldy]

You can kind of see in this pic... That's not detritus- almost every bit of substrate is occupied by spaghetti worm tentacles. Probably the hardest working part of my CUC.

Stupid majano anemone popped up out of nowhere... Only noticed it yesterday, and it's huge. It's getting assassinated as soon as I'm done posting pics.

Don't know what the bright green stuff with orange dots is... But I love it. Camera didn't like focusing on it for closeups though...

 

[kgoldy]

I think that blue SPS is Blue Tort... It was getting smothered by zoas when I got it- so I ripped them all off yesterday. Zoos look fine despite being treated very harshly with a razor and pliers- just hope the SPS survives.

Here's some of the offending zoos.

SPS at the upper left quadrant is one of the originals from Mr Coral. It was encrusting well... Then a bit of a die-off happened randomly about a week ago. Looks like it might have been stung by that yellow maxi.

Whatever this SPS is... that's the real glow it has, while the rest of the photo is a bit darker than in person. Brightest thing in the tank.

 

[kgoldy]

ORA Derasa next to ORA poop colored Maxima. No idea why I bought that thing... Didn't look nearly close enough before I picked it out.

Ranbow Monti in a barnacle. Doesn't look happy... It's my favorite frag that I got from the trade, but I can't figure out why it looks so crappy in my tank.

Darth Maul paly's went from 2 heads to... however many are in this photo. Since I dosed some trace elements, they're suddenly significantly larger. The change occurred literally overnight.

Not sure what the browned out SPS is in the top right quadrant is... Looks similar to the suffering rainbow monti- but pretty sure it's not that.

I like the pink zoos. Very different from the rest in my tank.

Stupid #####ass YWG pair... If they're not sold by the frag swap, they're getting tossed in the street.

Like this green acan... for some reason one of the fish or crabs keeps moving it no matter how much I glue it down. It looks pretty beat up as a result. :angry:

 

[kgoldy]

Some sort of hornet?

The zoa/paly's on the right (x-men?) might have something eating them... Haven't seen anything yet, but as you can see, they look a little chewed on.

Orange polyp SPS is one of my favorites. Any idea what it is?

Don't know what that thing is in the center... It was a frag that looked dead from Mr Coral, but it looks like it's making a comeback.

 

[kgoldy]

The green ones are the damn super palys that I want to kill... Happy thing in this pic though- got a new palm tree with orange stripes on the "branches"... Looks sweet.

Cool little (favia?) frag down there. I'll mount it when it grows a bit more.

Happy Samhains up front and center. Really like the tiny zoos. Anyone know of other morphs that small?

When coraline is growing on your charcoal... You've probably had it in there too long.

 

[kgoldy]

This is why I no longer maintain the thread on the macro forum... The mantis tank is now more about nutrient uptake than display.