Keith Perkins
06-13-2011, 12:34 AM
So I did a little decorating, note the piece hanging above the tanks.
http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/CozyKeith/Decorating.jpg
This is for Martha, she asked me to post a picture of myself well over a year ago.
http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/CozyKeith/ForMartha.jpg
A new pine shadow box, painted flat black, with a piece of what I'm told is commonly called Brain Coral. I found it on the beach on the windward side of Cozumel, Mexico while on my honeymoon about 8 years ago.
http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/CozyKeith/BrainCoral.jpg
So if that was the whole story the title could have just been "A little decorating in the fishcave", but oh what happened along the way. I wanted to move the 26 over one position right, the 29 left of it over one spot to the right, and finally the 29 that's now on the far left out from where the 26 now is. Got all that? In football terms, I pulled the left guard and went left...
GO PACKERS!!!:D
So after draining the little ones tank to do a WC I slid it right maybe half and inch. Then I took the light off the 29 that was empty next to it and set it on top the 26. I pulled the 29 out and proceeded to clean the glass on the sides of the two adjacent tanks and the counter underneath. Somehow I pulled the cord of the 29s light and sent it over the back of the 26. So it's sort of stuck along with a heater package I had over an open slot on the 26 behind the tank. I finally get it out, plug it in, and check to make sure it's still working. Mind you the TV is on loud, but suddenly I'm hearing something odd.
I wonder if what I'm hearing is on the TV. I sort of walk over toward the TV and listen. The noise isn't coming from there, but from my left. I think I know what I'm hearing, look left, and see water spraying on the floor. Somehow when the light fell or I was pulling it out I bumped the switch and turned on my water pump whose hose was hanging on the back of the wall. I run to shut off the switch and come back to find water has been spraying down on the old chest freezer, and the floor, and a bathmat just inside the door, then started soaking into an area rug and also running to a floor drain. Oh, and into the fishcave. So I cleaned that all up and turned a fan on.
After that I got the coral hung and tanks rearranged without any real further incident, other than dumping a quarter drain hose of tank water on the floor. Then I did a WC on my 55 and when I had it about 85% filled up I noticed one of my year old mixed blue grow outs was down on it;s side. Stuck my finger in the water to check the temp, nope, not that. Then I reach in and stand up a spawning cone, and move my hand over to try to lift up the down fish. Now I really hadn't seen any problem with any fish so I was really confused. So I go right up to it's nose and it just doesn't move, just laying flat on the bottom. So I bump his nose and the fish doesn't move. I'm not saying he didn't try to get away or stand upright, I mean he literally doesn't budge. Here it had gotten stuck between the glass and the piece of slate on the bottom of the one piece of driftwood in the tank. Moved the driftwood back a little once I determined he was that stuck and away it swam, apparently no worse for wear.
Then the turq female who was making dry runs just before I did their WC started laying and the male ate the eggs as fast as she laid them. You can sort of see in the pic with me in it she is laying. I pulled the spawning cone and stuck in a piece of PVC instead to see if that change up might help, but either she was done of didn't like the switch out and quit laying.
So, you could call the thread "A little decorating in the fishcave, or It was a really interesting WC night in the fishcave."
http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/CozyKeith/Decorating.jpg
This is for Martha, she asked me to post a picture of myself well over a year ago.
http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/CozyKeith/ForMartha.jpg
A new pine shadow box, painted flat black, with a piece of what I'm told is commonly called Brain Coral. I found it on the beach on the windward side of Cozumel, Mexico while on my honeymoon about 8 years ago.
http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/CozyKeith/BrainCoral.jpg
So if that was the whole story the title could have just been "A little decorating in the fishcave", but oh what happened along the way. I wanted to move the 26 over one position right, the 29 left of it over one spot to the right, and finally the 29 that's now on the far left out from where the 26 now is. Got all that? In football terms, I pulled the left guard and went left...
GO PACKERS!!!:D
So after draining the little ones tank to do a WC I slid it right maybe half and inch. Then I took the light off the 29 that was empty next to it and set it on top the 26. I pulled the 29 out and proceeded to clean the glass on the sides of the two adjacent tanks and the counter underneath. Somehow I pulled the cord of the 29s light and sent it over the back of the 26. So it's sort of stuck along with a heater package I had over an open slot on the 26 behind the tank. I finally get it out, plug it in, and check to make sure it's still working. Mind you the TV is on loud, but suddenly I'm hearing something odd.
I wonder if what I'm hearing is on the TV. I sort of walk over toward the TV and listen. The noise isn't coming from there, but from my left. I think I know what I'm hearing, look left, and see water spraying on the floor. Somehow when the light fell or I was pulling it out I bumped the switch and turned on my water pump whose hose was hanging on the back of the wall. I run to shut off the switch and come back to find water has been spraying down on the old chest freezer, and the floor, and a bathmat just inside the door, then started soaking into an area rug and also running to a floor drain. Oh, and into the fishcave. So I cleaned that all up and turned a fan on.
After that I got the coral hung and tanks rearranged without any real further incident, other than dumping a quarter drain hose of tank water on the floor. Then I did a WC on my 55 and when I had it about 85% filled up I noticed one of my year old mixed blue grow outs was down on it;s side. Stuck my finger in the water to check the temp, nope, not that. Then I reach in and stand up a spawning cone, and move my hand over to try to lift up the down fish. Now I really hadn't seen any problem with any fish so I was really confused. So I go right up to it's nose and it just doesn't move, just laying flat on the bottom. So I bump his nose and the fish doesn't move. I'm not saying he didn't try to get away or stand upright, I mean he literally doesn't budge. Here it had gotten stuck between the glass and the piece of slate on the bottom of the one piece of driftwood in the tank. Moved the driftwood back a little once I determined he was that stuck and away it swam, apparently no worse for wear.
Then the turq female who was making dry runs just before I did their WC started laying and the male ate the eggs as fast as she laid them. You can sort of see in the pic with me in it she is laying. I pulled the spawning cone and stuck in a piece of PVC instead to see if that change up might help, but either she was done of didn't like the switch out and quit laying.
So, you could call the thread "A little decorating in the fishcave, or It was a really interesting WC night in the fishcave."