lastlight's 34g solana

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by lastlight

that's a...colourful post Josh. You sure your polyp doesn't swing the *other* way?

I got no polyps anymore..

[ALBERTA REEF]

I have nothing witty to say. So Tag along.

[lastlight]

Here's a funny little clip of my new gramma making friends with the hermits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNWqeFcDsI

[Leah]

Very neighborly

[Lance]

Nasty little bugger.

[lastlight]

Not too much exciting to report. Tank's looking a little greener on the rock, and sand but a whole lot greener on the glass. I can wipe the glass down and by the end of the day I've got a solid green film again. Part of a new tank I suppose but I'm wondering if I should put my new bulb in or something.

Copepods have exploded in numbers and are all over the glass just as fast as the algae again. They're swarming the sand too. I think the amphipods are a lot cooler looking but so far have not seen any.

Both fish have extremely good appetites but aren't out as much as I'd like. Strangely they are more active when my daughter is being a crazy moron and running past the tank. I think I need a few dither fish. Not sure what would be better than chromis for this. Any ideas?

My MJ600 I swapped the stock return pump for just failed to startup after my waterchange today. I was really choked because it's a really tight fit for my arm to swap pumps with my heater and topoff sensors all in that last chamber. Stock return is back in for now but it puts out more than twice the gph (400 ish as oposed to 160) and the few overflow teeth I have mean the water level in the display is less than an inch from the top now. Gotta get the MJ working again me thinks.

Fans continue to work amazingly well. I ran the oven a lot today and had quite a few people here so it was 25.5 in the livingroom. Tank held steady at 79. Oh yeah!

Here's a shot of my emerald (Sally as per my daughter) and Lazy the hermit.



The emerald molted the other day and scared me. She somehow molted and left her molt clinging to the underside of a rock. How on earth do they get out of them while maintaining a pose? I thought she had died. It was actually tough to pry the legs of the molt off the rock!

[Delphinus]

Probably the impeller? I find I have to superglue the little paddle thing to the magnet thing after a while with those, something breaks inside and the magnet just spins freely. Should be an easy fix. Worst case scenario a new impeller maybe.

[lastlight]

Yeah Ryan gave me a bunch of various old MJs and in getting a MJ600 block/prop combo to work out of the parts I found several that were like that. Spun totally free. So you just get some glue inside the blade part and it bonds to the shaft?

I just tried plugging in the powerhead and of course it works right now. Damn I hate that.

[Delphinus]

Yeah, just some superglue gel in between the white part and the black part. It's not a forever solution but seems to last a good 6 months before you need to do it again.

[fishoholic]

Set up looks great. I love the look of cubes and your light fixture makes it look unique and modern. Makes me want one.