Contest - Sea~Horse~Whisperer

Thanks. I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with.

love the rock is the big rock 1 peise or more and what kind is it


ps.. wish i had stuff around the house i would join your contest

There is actually 6 pieces of rock there. It is from Haiti and it is encrusted lettuce head rock. I love it because it has cool shapes and lots of nice ledges for corals to sit on. I bought 100 lbs. of it last March for my 65g tank. It was uncured and it took 7 days to get here ( i paid overnight shipping) It was the smelliest, grossest mess I have ever smelled. The house stunk forever and there was 0 life left on it. Took 2 months to get all of the die off off of it and cure it. But it "would have" been awsome if all would have went like it should have.

Hummer..... lol, you WILL get lots of stuff built up eventually. We all do. I have boxes of "misc." saltwater stuff. So much that I don't even know what's in 1/2 of them anymore. I need to go thru all of the totes and decide what to get rid of. I have so many plumbing parts, I could probably restock menards.

Angie

i'm sure we all could help you restock menards... think they'd pay us??

anyway nice looking tank, love the aquascape can't wait to see some life on it

I did my first water tests today. Here are the results:
Nitrate 20
Nitrite 0.5
alk 300 (kh)
PH 8.4
ammonia .5

Didn't anyone else set up theirs yet? LOL Maybe I'm the only crazy fool who couldn't wait to start another project. I quit smoking 3 days ago, I need something to do. I already cleaned the cobwebs out of the basement today. Ohhh I miss my smokes!!!

Had all the pieces for months, just haven't gotten around to getting started... But I'll post my entry thread here shortly, then I can start hacking on the tank, still working out some details in my head to do some 'different' things. But you'll have to wait for them to come to be before I give them up, I'm not sharing.

I did another water test today. Ohhh it's ugly!!! Yeah!!!!
Nitrate 40
nitrite 3.0
ammonia .75-1.0
ph 8.2
alk 240
salinity 1.024
Temp 76

I'm using the dip strips for now since I don't need precise measurements yet.


I have lights!!! I'm using a 96w PC power quad retro. :cool:

I "could have" used a 250w MH over the tank, but that would be a little too much. I "was" going to do sps, but I decided I didn't want to get that crazy. Cooling a 10g tank with a 250w MH over it in the summer would have been a nightmare!! I don't have central air and my window airconditioner wouldn't have been enough. I know 0 about sps and I didn't think there would be enough growth before september to make me happy. Plus.....what would I do with them after the contest? All of my big tanks have seahorses in them and they couldn't stay in the 10g forever.

pretty blue lights!