Daplatapus's upgrade

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by lockrookie

Dude it's been like two years since I bought those overflows from you. You have the patience of in believable proportions

LOL, I know. It actually has seemed like an eternity. But the one concession I had to make with my wife to allow me to go ahead with this build was that I never use my credit card to buy anything. So I had to build it as time and funds allowed.

Originally Posted by WarDog

Is this some kind of rare Tang?

Originally Posted by Scythanith

Silver-sided Tang I think

Lol. Thank goodness no one thought it was a species of Cocos Batfish:

Originally Posted by reefwars

My question is how the hell did you get in there lol or better yet did you ever get out?

Looks good buddy I'm with everyone else.......put the darn water in lol

It was a bit of a feat, but I couldn't reach a few places I really wanted to clean. My wife actually has a video of me trying to get out, but I made her put the camera down and help me, lol. It took me almost 15 min of trying before I got the right leg lift, elbow down, hip sway combo

I have enough water now!!!!! But I have to work today, and I'm busy tonight, so not sure it's going to happen today or not At the latest, it'll happen tomorrow night

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by daplatapus

Lol. Thank goodness no one thought it was a species of Cocos Batfish:

Geez, now you are going to have a bunch of canreefers calling their lfs to order one in... lol.

[daplatapus]

Lol!


We have water going in the tank!!!!

[daplatapus]

Well, it lives!!!!!

[Myka]

Wow that's tiny!

[daplatapus]

Ya, almost unbelievably tiny. Came home tonight after work and the other female had also succumbed to the rigours it probably has gone through over the last couple weeks.

The male however seems to be doing great. He's been fed 3x today and has eaten like a pig.

[Myka]

I'd be ****ed if they sent me fish that small without warning. I warned you about buying wrasses unseen. It sucks that you probably don't have another option.

[daplatapus]

Unfortunately, living where I do, 90% of my fish are bought unseen.
I've been in J&L while a new person was being trained and I discreetly shadowed them a bit as they were talking in the isle. And it's actually one of the things that kind of impressed me with their on line sales. The one girl mentioned to the newbie that because the people who are ordering either over the phone or online can't see the exact fish they're buying, to be sure to take the time to catch and give the best specimens that they currently have in stock. People who come to the store can either choose to purchase or refuse any particular fish, but not online sales.

If that's how they're teaching new employees to treat online sales, I'm good. I would have liked to have been notified they were THAT small, but I can understand how that detail might slip through some cracks.

I did contact them via e-mail as soon as I got home and found the second deceased fish (so roughly 24 hrs) and they contacted me back within an hour or so apologizing and saying if I e-mailed them a pic of the dead fish they'll credit my account. While it still sucks for the fish , as a customer they still have my business. And it's also educated me a bit to maybe ask a few more questions before I get them to bag and ship livestock for me.

[daplatapus]

Well, I think tonight's the night things are going to get started moved over. I've done several large water changes over the last couple days, NO3 is down to 1 ppm. How many fish do ya'll think I can move over safely into 300 gallons of water that has finished cycling and has had MB7 dosed everyday and ghost fed for almost a week now...?

[gregzz4]

I don't know your total load Dom so can't say myself, but with that volume of water I'd say you could go with the standard 'a bunch' and watch the params for 3-5 days. Then if all is good after 2 weeks do another 'bunch'.

Or you could just toss 'em all in at once and spend the next month testing the primary 3, major WCs/dosing MB7 etc.
Depends on how much time you want to spend controlling NH3 and so on. And as I said I don't know your current load awaiting release.

A plus to adding everyone at once will of course be the lessening of squabbles.