What would you do if you had the house to yourself for a year, and suddenly could make as bug a mess as possible?

[GJak]

GUYS!!!!! The Cincinnati zoo just had a baby penguin born July 1st. If this isnt a sign from a higher power telling you to go "borrow" that penguin from the zoo while you're visiting your wife than my name isn't Steve.





(Its Greg by the way)

 

[r20crazy]

sell it all and buy an awesome car and beer.... restart in a year if she still loves you. (no wonder i'm single)

 

[Smarkow]

GUYS!!!!! The Cincinnati zoo just had a baby penguin born July 1st. If this isnt a sign from a higher power telling you to go "borrow" that penguin from the zoo while you're visiting your wife than my name isn't Steve.

(Its Greg by the way)

Funny enough, my name IS STEVE. That penguin is mine

 

[inland_reef]

So if I go marine planted, this pico from @inland_reef is one in the Mangrove lover’s thread that I find really inspirational. Anybody have others I should look at?

Hey appreciate it! This is an awesome little tank and macro builds are awesome. I’d say go that route. If you’re looking for more inspiration @Tigahboy has a really cool macro tank going on right now. Not sure if he has a thread but check out his Instagram for recent photos.

 

[creativeballance]

Soo...I'm not seeing the penguin thing on the vote list.
You need the penguins so you can have a reason to sing "Swedish Penguins" by Sabaton.

 

[GJak]

Ok I got your plane flight to Cincinnati and the return flights booked for you and "Steve Jr". When you land just make sure you go pick up some sardines so the peng... I mean "Steve Jr" has something to eat on the flight back home. I sent you a package that will make it easier to get on the plane, just make sure "Steve Jr" is wearing them before you go through security.


PS.....

Inland Marine is going to send over 7 more of those 75 gallon ice holding tanks tomorrow.

 

[LRT]

What I would do if I suddenly had the house to myself for an entire year-
Become my version of Jesus when he was homesless and grow long hair and beard and probably beg for money outside the Chevron dowm the street.
Order take out food the whole time.
Stock up on disposable dishes, cups, forks, spoons, bowls so I never had to do dishes again.
Turn every room in my house into reef house.
End up getting fired from my job.
Reef for food.

 

[Smarkow]

Soo...I'm not seeing the penguin thing on the vote list.
You need the penguins so you can have a reason to sing "Swedish Penguins" by Sabaton.

Aaaaaaaand googling

 

[Smarkow]

What I would do if I suddenly had the house to myself for an entire year-
Become my version of Jesus when he was homesless and grow long hair and beard and probably beg for money outside the Chevron dowm the street. CHECK (minus the begging)
Order take out food the whole time. CHECK
Stock up on disposable dishes, cups, forks, spoons, bowls so I never had to do dishes again. TODO
Turn every room in my house into reef house. IN PROGRESS
End up getting fired from my job. EHHHH
Reef for food. FISH ARE FRIENDS NOT FOOD

 

[creativeballance]

Aaaaaaaand googling

So...how'd that turn out?

 

[Smarkow]

So...how'd that turn out?

30 seconds of confusion at the lack of penguins, a quick disconnect from work wifi fearing NSFW content, and then hilarity as I realized I have def heard one of my metal loving bosses play this at work before

but also sad at the lack of actual penguins?

 

[creativeballance]

30 seconds of confusion at the lack of penguins, a quick disconnect from work wifi fearing NSFW content, and then hilarity as I realized I have def heard one of my metal loving bosses play this at work before

but also sad at the lack of actual penguins?

Yeah...I know. I send the band regular requests to do a "special" version.

 

[Tl02022020]

Giant concrete pond in the garage filled with mangroves and eels. Why isn’t this an option on the poll? Haha. Seriously what you are planning sounds like a fun project!

 

[Smarkow]

Okay orders from Gulf Coast Ecosystems (https://www.live-plants.com) and @Bulk Reef Supply have arrived! Unpacked the live stuff ASAP but then had to get to work.

so here is the teaser:

 

[tnyr5]

Just remember, you'll eventually have to clean the mess up. ;-)

 

[Smarkow]

Just remember, you'll eventually have to clean the mess up. ;-)

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Awesome! I cant wait to see what you ordered! Gulf Coast Ecosystems is a really great dealer, I hope to order from him again in the future.

 

[creativeballance]

Thanks for the link for the macro dealer.

 

[Smarkow]

Awesome! I cant wait to see what you ordered! Gulf Coast Ecosystems is a really great dealer, I hope to order from him again in the future.

Thanks for the link for the macro dealer.

Gulf coast is seriously the best!!! This is my 2nd order with them and somehow it’s even better than I remember

 

[Smarkow]

Only had a few hours after work to get stuff done and “of course” I was missing one plumbing adaptor (stupid metric to imperial gets me AGAIN) so that hampered progress.

So the tank is replacing the small breeder I had setup on the left. It’s plumbed in so that 1/2 if the display return (yellow overflow) will go into the planted tank and 1/2 will still go down into my cryptic zone (yellow tank)

In the meantime, waiting for the PVC to cure, I’m filling the planted display with ~75 gallons of saltwater and getting the new water heated so that there is no salinity or temperature shock when I suddenly turn a few valves and the two systems touch for the first time