FishBrain`s build thread

Posted By phishcrazee on 03/05/2010 04:40 PM
Are you paying half of Fed Ex overnight? That's $80 total, so $40 for you?! That doesn't seem right.......The total should be closer to $40 and you paying $20-ish something sounds better. I dunno, anytime I've dealt with idiots and they start doing stuff like this, it sends up so many red flags in my head. He could totally be legit, and I hope he is so you can get some nice coral for a good price! I always start to wonder though, when things start going wrong and they want more $$ for whatever......like does he even have more of these coral available? Is he some sort of con-man etc. ?
Case in point, I dealt with a con-man a few years ago in regards to some lights I bought through ebay. I paid $5xx.xx something dollars and the guy ducked out after I paid, suddenly became unregistered (had good feedback), simply could not find him anymore. PP refunded what they could but I could never get the whole amount back via their policies. Just be careful and get it all in writing. Get his phone number (call it), full name, address etc. so if this deal does go sour, you'll have something to locate this guy with.
Yeah I hear yea, But I have no doubt that he is legit. And the price I am paying for these chalices I have seen people pay as much on RC just to get one or two of these pieces. And it looks like 3 or 4 of the first shipment will pull through.

 

I got some new fish today, here are a few pics.

The first one is a yellow mimic tang



Also got three pajama cardinals

And two firefish

 

yeah there very cool. The only thing is they were out and about for around a houre after I put them in then the found holes and I havent seen them sence. I hope they don't want to hide all the time.

 

I guss the tang is a orange sholder tang not a yellow mimic. Marcked wrong at the pet store.

 

I got the firefish from Hung over at the sea of marvels and the tang and cardinals from Coralvill bay. I almost bought a flame angel at pet land but the price was twice what I can order it for from reefs2go. So I think I'm going to make a order from them in the next week or two.

 

Here is a video of my progress and some still shots. Most of the coral is back in the display and this is the final aqua scape. I know that everyone will be itching to start in on the ( you have stocked this tank to fast comments) Just keep in mind I am a professional and don't try this at home. LOL There are ways around a cycle if you have multiple tanks and a plan in advance.
http://www.shwup.com/album/2010_mar...dium=email
This link should take you to a little movie my wife made. I'll put up some still shots in a little bit.

 

Here ar the pics.







You can see at the top left side my ora cali tort that I just cut all the tips off of  for the spring swap. Here's a pic of the frags.



 Well that's all for now. I have some fish and clean up crew comeing on tuesday from reefs2go more pics to come then.

 

Posted By Gered on 03/12/2010 10:26 PM
Looking good! Looks like you plenty of room for SPS to grow. Can I call dibs on one of the Torts?
Sure can! I'll make sure to hold onto one for you. Yea one of my goals was to leave plenty of room for stuff to grow and for the fish to swim.
-Bill

 

Posted By phishcrazee on 03/13/2010 12:47 PM
Looks great! Is that a minefield cyphastrea (sp?) to the left? Pretty stuff! I like the fuzzy pink one to the left too /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif Thanks Fawn! It's not minefield it's meteor shower, I have some frags of it growing out for spring fest. If you want one let me know.
The only problem I am haveing so far is that my big sailfin is not being nice to my black clowns. So I may have to take the clowns out and put them in another tank. I have a purple long tentical nem comeing on tuesday hopefully they will take to hosting in it quickly.
-Bill

 

Yea got the shippment from reefs2go yesterday. And I must say I am very pleased! The flame angel I got is so bright that it makes all the other fish look faded. I also got a carpenter wrasse, stary blenny, 100 blue leg crabs, and 50 snails and I must say they are all good size and in great helth. Now as far as the purple long tentical nem it was in great helth. What i mean by that is that last night it decided to detach and and explore. When I got up this morning it was pancacked to the side of one of the mp40s. It's in bad shape now but it might pull through. I'll post some more pics later tonight.
-Bill