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State: Texas
Metro: Plano
Birthday: 3/17/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: The aquarium I chose is a JBJ 12 gallon Nano Cube. I hope to get a new hood next year with better lighting.
Expertise: Current Mods and livestock
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Occupation: Student
Industry: Hospitality
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Member Since:
7/14/2005
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| I got a new pink duster today. I also installed the new fission
nano skimmer. But I have to say that it is one of the biggest
wastes of money EVER. To put it bluntly the skimmer does not
skim and that is it. Anyway I also got a couple of dusters from a
group buy but one of them did not have a tube so I took a little
hang-on compartment and had my dad put some slits in it with his
table saw. and hund it on the side with some sand in the box. He
seems relatively happy and is currently making a new tube for
himself. I put him in there because my shrimp are viscous and
if they saw a worm in there they would totally go after it and eat it.
Anyway I am now looking into rearing some peppermint shrimp and later
blood shrimp in order to offset the cost of this hobby. And
believe me that cost is high when you are a college student with no job.
Anyway here is a pic of the clown with his coco worm | | |
| screw the last post! I have decided to research building
aquariums and build my own! That way it can be
exactly how I want it to be. I dad has a table saw, router,
drill press, and various other tools and he is an extensive wood worker
so I think I might actually have a shot at this. My dad makes
stunning furniture for my family. My aquarium is actually sitting
on the night stand he built for me(my to his chagrin) because it was
the only piece of furniture in my room I trusted to be able to hold the
weight. the only problem is that he is totally weighted down with
other projects that my mom wants him to build. Right now he is
working on a chest of drawers for my parent's room and then after that
he is building our new dining room table. After that I am going
to ask him to build a stand for my nano in the style of my night
stands(which I expect that he will hate since my night stands have been
the most difficult things he has built(probably because I designed it ))
I have the utmost confidence in mine and his ability to build everything needed for the tank. the only problem is time.
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| ok so it has been a while since I updated but here is what has happened
plus a pic of my tank that really is not recent and is not the best pic
but at least it is there.
so I have rearranged my rock twice(I finally really like it)
I have gotten a new clownfish named Paris
I have a new green and purple frogspawn
and I have a couple of new dusters
So I am kind of at a loss right now as to what I should do. I
don't really want to go whining about it on DFWMAS so I decided to
whine about it on here. my parents are giving me a check for 300
dollars plus the hundred I got this week from them(not sure why) so I
will have about 400 after Christmas.(yeah I know I have a horrible life
and feel the need to whine about it). But that is not my
problem. My problem is what I should do with it(real bad thing
right?). I have a nano cube that is not 'all it can be' but at
the same time it looks nice in my humble opinion but I could mod it out
and make it totally awesome and keep more cool stuff in it like
clams. However I see all these really cool big aquariums and I am
like "that is sooo cool" and I really want a big one, but 400 is not
nearly enough for a big aquarium so I may just try and save up for a
big aquarium. Because I also want to start out with the
best. A good skimmer, metal halide, and I was even contemplating
trying to have the tank itself custom made. I love the look of
the m-tank with no trim and the system completely in one place with no
piping down to the sump. I also like tall tanks with the
'reef-wall' look and lots of LR.
So I may go down the path of saving for a while however for
she-who-has-no-job(meaning me) this might take a while. It took
me two years just to save for my nano cube.
ughhh I am so NOT a patient person.
Anyway this is a pic of my tank when it first began
and this a pic that was taken earlier this month a few days before the great feather duster massicre
the last picture is not what the tank looks like right now. Like
i said before I like the reef wall look so that is what it kind of look
like right now.
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| I am so depressed right now... That GD flatworm exit is the
DEVIL. It might have taken a few days but I only have three out
of my 14 dusters left.
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