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dang wives......

after going out to Seattle last January to see a knee doc and stopping to see the aquarium there the wife has been after me to set up a saltwater tank again.....few months ago i finally set up a 20 gallon long nano for her in the basement living room and also a couple small experiment/"dont play well with others" fish tanks in my plant room.....

had a couple specialist doctor visits out of town last week and stopped into the saltwater store there looking for something to put in one of my small tanks that had cycled and found a fuzzy dwarf lionfish for it......

my wife however was looking at the various tanks for sale and found a 75 gallon bowfront already plumbed with an overflow and had a stand for fairly cheap....and she told me "i want that!"

me:"uh do you realize how much thats gonna cost me to get going?"

her:"yep but watching the fish after work helps me unwind"

"you realize its November and we are running out of time to get live rock shipped to us in the frozen north?"

"You can get it plumbed and ready for live rock quick cant you?"

seeing i wasnt gonna win i said fine have them load it up :censor:

my oldest daughter helped me get it to the basement yesterday and after looking at what i had to work with informed my wife that in order to make this really work im gonna have to put it against the wall to my plant room, cut a hole in the wall so i can put the sump in there cause its gonna be a nightmare under the stand its on.....

she said lets punch a hole in the wall ill help you move the book cases this week to the other wall so it will fit.....

thinking with a bit of luck i can get it set up and plumbed good enough to cycle live rock by next weekend if the local hardware store has all the fittings i need which is cutting it dang close on shipping live rock to the middle of nowhere Montana in the winter.....

good news is since the sump is in my plant room i can just plumb my "dont play well with others" tanks into the same sump and run one filtration and heating unit.....also easier to plumb in a refugium.....

i guess atleast its nice my wifes interests are similar enough to mine that most of what she wants work out for me.....
 
LOL! Yet another project....
 
Which store did you go to? If you're ever feeling up to just a 15-20min drive south of seattle, stop by my shop.. http://www.barrierreefaquariums.com Would be awesome to help ya set up a tank. :) BTW our annual anniversary sale is this weekend. ;)
 
its cool you share a passion
 
There are worse problems to have in a relationship... I've had them all.
 
lol goodluck with the project
oh and don't forget to close the browser dont want the wife seeing :D
 
Sounds like me. I seriously can't walk past any sort of garden area without looking, and often times, without leaving with a plant in my hand. You're probably way more likely to hear me say "I want that" than "I'm hungry".

oh and don't forget to close the browser dont want the wife seeing :D

haha.. this.

My fiance and I are both "internet people". I could never do this and get away with it; neither could he :lol:
 
Brie you have a shop, That's how you get that very nice setup! I think I'll try and order from you.
 
Brie you have a shop, That's how you get that very nice setup! I think I'll try and order from you.

lol its not _MY_ my shop.. Just am one of the 3 employees running the place. I suppose you could call me the Asst. manager? lol I also do all of the photo/graphic stuff for the business. Trust me, I dont make much :p Its still a retail job working for a small business.
 
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My fiance and I are both "internet people". I could never do this and get away with it; neither could he :lol:

I am an internet person too, but my mom doesn't approve...:glare:

i WOULD be making a pic thread right now if she hadnt kicked me off th main account and logged me on to mine (the sarr pics are on the main account)

mom:"GET OFF OF 'TERRA FORMA' DO YOUR MATH" me:"terraFORUMS you IDIOT":censor:

im supposed to be dong online math crap on tenmarks.com. oh screw it...:glare:

i hate being 13...

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i jus raelized that im screwed, my mom always checks the history...DAMN IT:rant:

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ive been so busy ranting that i forgot tho mention the fact that i would like to see pics of your progress on the tank Rattler. you do have pics, dont you?
 
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At least she's willing to get an appropriate tank for the fishies.
 
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Which store did you go to? If you're ever feeling up to just a 15-20min drive south of seattle, stop by my shop.. http://www.barrierreefaquariums.com Would be awesome to help ya set up a tank. :) BTW our annual anniversary sale is this weekend. ;)

thats about an 18 hour drive one way.....dont much care for drives over bout 12 hours :-O
 
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@sarracenia_x - Cherish every moment of 13, it is likely that soon, you will be telling your son/daughter to get off the internet to do his/her homework. (Seriously, the older you are, the faster time goes). And take it from me, everything you do from here on out will affect your future. So stick with the books my friend. Just a few words of advice from someone who almost learned the hard way.

@rattler - seems to me you haven't learned your place yet... LOL. Just kidding. My first rule is to keep the wife happy. Seems to make everything else go alot smoother.
 
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At least she's willing to get an appropriate tank for the fishies.

tank she has now is appropriate for what she has now.....she just wants a bigger tank with more fish.....so long as tank size is fine for the species involved the only other thing that matters is water quality....she has seen a number of other cool fish that she wants but her nano is at capacity.....plus she wants her clowns to have an anemone but this tank is to cramped for that given the other inverts and corals.....

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@rattler - seems to me you haven't learned your place yet... LOL. Just kidding. My first rule is to keep the wife happy. Seems to make everything else go alot smoother.

true......but she is used to me figuring out how to do what she wants.....she just says i want this or that done and leaves the logistics to me.....unfortunatly setting up a good sized saltwater tank costs money, especially when the equipment i have on hand is geared to much smaller tanks so new equipment is needed....
 
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One word of advice from experience with the anemones, be extremely careful on which species you get. My dad got what the shop owner said was a standard sized anemone. It turned out to be a carpet anemone that took over and entire corner of a 75 gallon aquarium that ate everything, including a clownfish. I had no idea that dwarf lionfish stayed that small!
 
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yep i know......and most anemone hosts that clownfish like are notorious for eating fish and inverts......tube anemones have a horrible rep for eating fish cause someone one time said they saw one eat one and its been reported that they are fish eaters ever since though it is extremely rare for them to take a fish cause the venom of most rank near the bottom of the scale for Cnidarids as most eat zooplankton.....however anemones like the carpet anemone of your dads will eat nearly everything but rarely get a mention as being a problem.....saw one article where a guy kept track of what his carpet anemone in his reef tank ate and in one year it consumed over $1000 worth of animals....

will need a bigger tank for the lion eventually but right now the tank he is in is over 7 times his length and he just hangs out next to the live rock anyway cause thats where the amphipods are....so as a youngin the 10 is ok but he will need a 30 as an adult....
 
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The most popular amongst both reefers and clownfish alike, are Rose Bubbles... Not powerful stingers, not really known for eating fish(not saying they WONT, but nothing like a carpet), and fairly hardy for an anemone.
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You just have to be careful, because if you let them divide unchecked,you're tank will turn into this.
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thats about an 18 hour drive one way.....dont much care for drives over bout 12 hours :-O

lol well I ment if you ever happen to be in Seattle again. ;)
 
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thats the anemone i was looking at most......figure he will be one of the first additions, let him choose the spot he likes best and then add corals.....not a big fish eater may eat some inverts, stays a lil smaller and though he will damage corals he touches if i let him pick his favorite spot first than add corals later, they rarely move if they find a happy spot so it becomes a very minor issue....
 
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thats the anemone i was looking at most......figure he will be one of the first additions, let him choose the spot he likes best and then add corals.....not a big fish eater may eat some inverts, stays a lil smaller and though he will damage corals he touches if i let him pick his favorite spot first than add corals later, they rarely move if they find a happy spot so it becomes a very minor issue....

Well, the general consensus with anemones is to make sure the tank is very stable and mature before adding one. They dont tolerate swings in KH/temp/salinity much, or bad water quality thats usually present after cycling(high nitrate). Long as the tank has been running for 3-6 months and you've done proper testing/water changes, should be good to go. Also as for size, there's actually two types of Rose Bubble. One of them, the True Rose Bubble, gets huge. Same size as a carpet. They are usually pink with maybe a slight hint of blue under the tentacles, and their pedal dist(under side of them and "stalk") is flesh colored. Beige to dark brown. Then there are "Colonial" Rose bubbles. They stay smaller, and their pink has a slight broken up effect if you look at them super closely. Like they're stippled. Lots of tiny dots. They're usually more "bubbled" as well at the tips. And their pedal disc is usually shades of purple. From maroon to bright royal purple. These also stay alot smaller, but like their name suggests, they split much more rapidly so you'll have more clones to deal with.. Hope this helps!
 
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