I’m bored — should I do something else?
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How about rescaping your tank if you're bored? That might help stir things up 
Do it please! Make a build thread so I can just try and copy what you did 
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Current setup below. I might put the seahorse tank on the left of the 175g.
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QUOTE="bakbay, post: 1114845, member: 20245"]That is way cool!!! He changes color on the fly?[/QUOTE]
two different chameleons. Its a different type of challenge keeping these guys, but at the same time can be similar to keeping a SPS tank, as in keeping everything stable, with prefect parameters.
keeping the humidity up. Especially at night, misting before and after lights off, possibly fogging, feeding gut loaded nutritious bugs, keeping live plants and a lot of hiding spots. The list goes on. It helps keep you busy aside from water changes, and weekly maintenance routine of a reef tank.
plus they like to be mostly left alone.
sometimes, I’ll throw in 40 crickets, and not have to worry about feeding him for a while, I just make sure the crickets get something to feed on also.
two different chameleons. Its a different type of challenge keeping these guys, but at the same time can be similar to keeping a SPS tank, as in keeping everything stable, with prefect parameters.
keeping the humidity up. Especially at night, misting before and after lights off, possibly fogging, feeding gut loaded nutritious bugs, keeping live plants and a lot of hiding spots. The list goes on. It helps keep you busy aside from water changes, and weekly maintenance routine of a reef tank.
plus they like to be mostly left alone.
sometimes, I’ll throw in 40 crickets, and not have to worry about feeding him for a while, I just make sure the crickets get something to feed on also.
Do a cold water tide pool temperate tank. I would keep it small like a IM25 AIO... LOL visually match your frag tank. You only need a 1/15 chiller. You have tons of local resources. The exciting thing, which why you want to keep it small is the all the Zooplankton that can come with a handfull of kelp. The discovery of new critters everyday will keep your ADD in check. You can keep all sorts of critters that might be considered pests in a reef tank. Visit the Cabrillo aquarium which is filled with all local critters to give you ideas.
You do need a fishing license with a ocean stamp to collect and you have very confusing but specific guidelines to what you can and can't collect.
You do need a fishing license with a ocean stamp to collect and you have very confusing but specific guidelines to what you can and can't collect.
Outstanding- sounds like a challenge! I actually have an Artica 1/10hp chiller that I’m not using but prefer to plumb into the current system for filtration, circulation, dosing, and monitoring. Indeed, another IM25 will be symmetrical to satisfy my ADD, not sure where I can find such a thing? lol
Other options: since I’m out of room in the frag tank, get a ginormous frag tank and convert the current IM25 into a seahorse tank! Still figuring out, pending the Boss’ approval. If she makes me King for a day, I would rather get a 500g tank — that should satisfy my boredom for at least another 6mos?
Other options: since I’m out of room in the frag tank, get a ginormous frag tank and convert the current IM25 into a seahorse tank! Still figuring out, pending the Boss’ approval. If she makes me King for a day, I would rather get a 500g tank — that should satisfy my boredom for at least another 6mos?
I do feel tempted to take a blade to this thing today since I am home today. I have a prodigy md. new for the overflow. I guess I have a different perspective. I got into MTS in college when my buddy who ran a LFS out of his dads ace hardware basement. We would buy broken tanks from the distributors for super cheap and just go upstairs and cut new glass for them. So there may or may not of been 12+ tanks in my small college apt. I am just lazy 40 yrs later.
