Best Day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it has finnally happend, my live rock is here, it is all set up, ive been sitting in front of the **** tank just waiting to see something. talk about addiction, wow all i have seen are about 300 sanils, a bunch of fillimus alge, bubble alge, and the occasional flat worm, and a lot and i mean a lot of apstaisa, BUT WHO CARES IT IS GREAT ENJOYMENT FOR ME.

ON A SERIOUS NOTE: i want to thank all of trt. because of you this day is possible. im sure i have asked some dumb questions but you are always there to awnser them. so to you i dedicate this tank. i just hope i can live up to all of your tanks. thank so much for showing me the door.


now i must go sit and stare some more.

[Mnemic]

I Envy you and Await the same situation

I've still got my 55 Gal Fresh with my nifty Clown Loaches to entertain me tho..

[cath]

Staring is good! Congrats, MN!! This place is great, as you have found!

[Doug1]

Of all the FW fish, I think I miss Clown Loaches the most

im sure i have read it before, but the rock i got has been cured, actually the lfs where i got it from let me pick out 75 lbs of it a month ago and he kept it there till i had the cash. so i picked it up today. how long should i wait till i get a clean up crew. i really dont feel like sitting here for the next 5 hrs picking of alge, and boy oh boy i got a ton of alge. also just outa curriosity, how ling before you guys noticed the creatures that only come out at night? i keep checking my tank out with a flash light and so far nothin. i dont even see a crab . but i got a few snails so there keeping me busy. oh and i got a purple mushroom. and 1 other thing i got a great mixture of rock. 30 lbs figi, 20 lbs marshal island, and 25 lbs tonga. it looks really cool.

[billc]

Just keep checking.. For me it was a while.. But remember Rome was not built in a day.. I would go ahead and add some snails and a mix of hermits.. If the rock has been sitting in the tanks at the LFS that long I dont think you will get much of a spike.. After moving the critters that might have inhabited the rock are still not sure of their new home.. Pull up a chair and do what the rest of us do instead of watch TV.. Watch a glass screen with water behind it..Enjoy.. You are going to get many, many hours of relaxation, frustration, bewilderment, and maybe a little enlightenment..

I GOT CRABS!
I SAW ONE WOOOT!
OMG THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!

and a starfish!

[billc]

I said that once and it was not funny at all... But I think I did go Hoot Hoot..

oh well i wasnt trying to be funny i mean it i got crabs on my biggest peice of lr. i can see why you all enjoy this hobby. its midnight and im calling all my friends to come over so we can sit with a flashlite and stare at live rock. i think i am not going to bed tonight

[Etech]

welcome to your new addiction

and your new money pit

[yakmon]

hehe, have fun, all i got right now is a glass box of sand and water. gonna let the tank stabilize a day or 2 before i add my lr. except i know whats in/on it.

[beach bum]

Ahhh, is there anything finer than a big new batch of rock...

Where did you get the rock? what kind?

[Brooke]

...why would you buy liverock covered in algae??? We just got some great rock from Dirk in Red Wing. He's got lots of rocks..nice stuff for $4-6 bucks a pound. If it really is covered in bubble algae and aiptasia I'd take it back. You are going to be battling too much too soon. Where are you in mn?? I hope you didn't pay much for that. Oh..and BTW..Dirk might even help out with payments. I didn't know you were live rock shopping or i would have given you his name sooner. I'll pm you his number.

Brooke

[GaryG]

I'm surprised you are happy about having lots of aptasia????

Before you get any fish I would get about 10 pepperment shrimp and let them clean the aptasia off of the rock.

Did you know that a large aptasia can actually kill a fish?