#saltblr

[melodromacy]

1snt 1t r1d1culous that ppl are sell1ng frags of puls1ng xen1a and green star polyps for l1ke anyth1ng h1gher than $5... l1ke thats try1ng to sell crabgrass to an amer1can lawn haver... sell1ng mosqu1tos to an area where theyre a des1gnated pest...

l1ke 1 could understand $10-20 1f they were REALLY B1G frags (whole rocks covered) but normal frags???

[ice-block]

Me: I kinda want to set up a saltwater tank

Me: *does research for 10 minutes*

Me: I want a saltwater tank in theory

[birdsandbotanical]

Help with stocking my 125

So! My 125g is almost ready to go, the cycle is just about complete.

My current fish split between 40g are:

- ocellaris clown

- blue damsel

- three stripe damsel

- three spot domino damsel

- algae blenny

- skunk cleaner shrimp

Does anyone have any suggestions for fish or inverts to add? It’s a FOWLR tank

@letsgetsalty I was hoping you might have some insight

[greekbettas]

Handsome little boi doing his crawly thang

[fishamiright]

Our new Fire Shrimp, John F. Kennedy and Marylin Monroe. May or may not be a bonded pair but they be split up this summer. JFK will stay with me and Monroe will go with my roommate in her new tank.

[bugdart]

Going to the Huntsville Frag Swap today!!!1!!1!!

[hella-free-space]

Looking for saltwater blogs and saltwater tanks 101 style posts!

Asking for a friend :p

[kcowgill]

6/27/2019 1.00 mile/1.61 kilometers Oh, what an absolute goat rodeo of clusterjumbles YTD: 462.87 miles

Drove the kids to summer camp and kept driving north to park at a commuter train station (different train line) near summer camp so I could pick them up after work. So far, not so bad. But then at work we finally figure out an avenue for investigation for a problem a teammate and I have been working on for over a week (a service my team provides to our Singapore office), only to get rebuffed for help since we have admin privileges (i.e. “Well, we don’t know how badly you guys messed it up, so... good luck!”).

Narrator: They did not mess anything up.

And then I do some digging into my emails to discover that the rebuffers are the ones who set it up that way ~2 years ago. So I’m a little salty about the lack of help, the rebuff, and the misplaced blame (on us). And then another similar service of ours goes down (the US version of the previously mentioned Singapore service). But I didn’t know about it at the time, because ... Ah, I’m getting ahead of myself.

I had to find some time during the day to go and get more lasers shot at my feet. Higher intensity lasers, longer duration. And run a mile, and lift. Had to leave work a little early because the different train line I took has a different schedule, and differing destinations call for a schedule adjustment. Regardless, got them to their appointments in the northern burbs on time. But just barely - as we were getting off the highway we had a front-row seat to a Jeep rear-end a Nissan since the Nissan had stopped before merging into a single lane road (thanks to some summertime road construction) and apparently the Jeep wasn’t paying close enough attention.

Always find opportunities to teach your kids the importance of paying attention!

As we’re packing up the kids afterwards to eat in the neighborhood to let traffic die down, my teammate texts me to let me know the US service had gone down. We get to the restaurant (Roti if you must know) I place my order, grab my food, and sit down and whip out my laptop, hotspot, etc and connect to help troubleshoot.

My family ended up leaving me there since they were done and anxious to get home. I sat for a while and admired the torrential downpour of A) rain outside and B) technical failures at my office. After about an hour of this things seemed to have calmed down (the rain, people getting stuff sorted out, etc) so I decided to head home.

I decided to re-connect to check on things and a decision had been made to keep the US based service down until Friday (Chicago time) so folks could fix it while in the office. But by this point, folks in our Singapore office were starting their day (they’re 13 hours ahead of us) and started noticing the US based service was down and by golly, they depend on the US one too!

I had the folks who were trying to push off service restoration go ahead and make an attempt at getting it back up and running NOW instead of what would effectively be Monday for the Singapore folks (if it waited until our Friday it wouldn’t be ready until their Friday evening at best, and unless they need it over the weekend it’s out till Monday). It came back and all was right with the world.

For the most delicious irony, the original rebuffers for the Singapore based issue were also the pusher-offers as well as the you-need-to-get-it-done-now folks.

I’m still pretty salty about the whole thing, but at least my new teammate has a positive attitude about it and is able to view it as a learning experience.

[greekbettas]

Clowning around at my local fish store

[greekbettas]

Cute little penguins from the aquarium ☺️

[fishamiright]

Introducing Charcoal(Char) the black clownfish and TWO new corals. Pumped to final expand my collection!

[greekbettas]

“This is my swamp” -every fish at petco