Catch a Tang Day
 

So after 2 years of everyone living together nicely, my Tangs have revolted. The Achilles is chasing the Yellow, and the Yellow has beat the crap out of the Purple. Purple needs to come out today. Here we go again, tank draining day :)

Bet you had nothing better to do. :wink:

Nope, nothing. To add to my adventure, I'm alone with a 3yo all day. This is gonna be fun!

Hehe! Hope you wait for nap time, for the little one that is.

Fish trap doesn't work? Awhile back a fellow reefer built me one that works every time. A plastic critter keeper with weights on the bottom and lid. Lid stays open w/ fishing line. It may take a bit for the right fish to go in, but it always catches the right one.

No, she can help :)

No room in the tank to put a trap. Can't even fully submerge a net without it snagging on coral. The tank drain is way faster.

Wish I had that problem

It does have it's drawbacks :) Can't catch fish -lol

The word in the tank is its loosing water, panic and a power struggle has set in with the inhabitants as to who is first out. I think all can be restored if you have Rig talk to the tangs and have him reassure them that you will be installing the ghetto closed loop system soon and all will be back to normal.

Do you have a Border Collie too??

Ya it's the only thing that sucks about reefing, I've been trying for months to catch 1 chromis so he wins I lose! :razz:

No sir. But if I believe my wife we have a talking cat.

So is the closed loop your idea, or the cats'? Cause I don't trust cats.

I can add quite a few items to that list today :cry:

Oh no that's my gem! According to the wife the cat not only talks but is smarter than yours truly so he would likely suggest a new tank. In fact when my tank sprung a leak about five weeks ago that's the excuse I used to buy a new tank rather than attempt to repair. I said to her 'Heh that's what the talking cat advised me to do so I'm going shopping'

I thought about a new tank yesterday, but decided that if I have to empty this one and start over, I'd just quit. There is no way I could rebuild with the colonies I have, so I'd have to frag everything, toss 4 pounds of coral in the garbage and wait some years to get it back to where it is.
If I lived in Van, I'd be having a clearance sale this weekend.

Luckily it's looking like it might be a bulk head leak, although fixing that presents it's own challenges.

I too am catching fish today
I'll post up my results after I get the second and maybe a third one in jail

I'm done. About 30 minutes from start to finish. Purple in frag tank, YT on way to new home. Who needs fish traps!!

Good job :wink:
I'm about to post pics in my thread, and start a FS one

Greg it's the giving time of year. :lol:

Well, if you can be here in a couple hours it's your's - otherwise I think I'll sell it :razz:

Ya, I just gave away my Tang :)

The down side of my fish catching method is that sweet smell of acro. The neighbours can probably smell it right now -lol

OK, I'm covered then :) You did our good deed for today

2 good deeds. I didn't kill the yellow for being an ass.

I was thinking on getting an Achilles to go with my yellow and kole tang. Now I have to take that off my list of wants. MI is moving to the top.

Is that Moorish Idol? I'm thinking of one, just have to think a bit harder :)

:rofl:

I was so mad at my wrasses and perc I was thinking about using a hook and flinging them across the room. You know, just to make sure they didn't come off the barb-less hook and fall back in the water :rolleyes:

Then I thought about using a barbed hook but I don't have any anymore ...

Good thing the first one I caught was just a quick stab through the surface water as I was very ticked last night

Shhhh they'll hang us.

Gotta catch us!

Wow Brad. You're pretty good at that. I gotta say..:D

I hope you can fix the leaky bulkhead ok.

I had a guy over (Nuttyreefer) watching and he thought the same thing :) This was my 4th time draining, so getting the hang of it. I don't want to do it again though.
It's getting tough to even grab fish off the bottom, too much coral.

Brad, next time I need to catch a fish I will hire you.

I think you secretly enjoy draining and refilling the tank.

^^^^^ +1

I'm actually strangely a little bit jealous about it too. I don't know what I'm finding weirder about this whole thing.

Must be all the ink. Makes you a BAMF. It also helps to have the arms (and chest, and back and abs and quads) of a Gladiator.

I had to google what a BAMF is. I thought it was just where the unicorns lived. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkW-EAkClbE

It has it's moments, but it's more a DAMF set of moments most of the time.

However, if I ever build another tank, it's going to have a 3" valve on the bottom!