srsly

i don’t post very often but my traffic keeps going up.- i wonder why.- they can’t all be spam bots.

sunday i talked to my uncle.- i’m going to a KMFDM show with him on halloween.- he’s friends with one of the guys in the band.- my aunt tracy works with the guy’s fiance+¬.- put all this together and i get to hang out with KMFDM on halloween after their show.

my tank is finally settling down.- for some reason my cycle took about two months to kick in. kinda took my by surprise because i had thought it was just a weak cycle or i completely missed it and everything was fine.- everything was not fine.- for a couple days i had a horrible nitrate spike and i nearly burned up a rock i just bought that was covered in zoanthid and star polyps.- the star polyps are bleached but they’re coming back with a vengeance.- the zoanthid colony was pretty much decimated; it’s less than half it’s size now (i think it was unhappy and started dying and falling off the rock, which in turn triggered the nitrate spike and cycled my tank).- there’s a solid patch of it left though and when that recovers there will be no stopping it.

it’s been about three weeks or so since dippy died.- i’m hoping another two or so weeks and water changes will get rid of whatever parasite he had that might still be lingering in the water.- i would really like to get a pair of them.- i can’t decide if i want orange or black.- since i know a guy at the fish store i can get them for about the same price. and both cheaper than retail.

i’m really unhappy with the rock arrangement right now.- but since the nutrient levels are being good i feel like i shouldn’t disturb it. soon enough though i’ll have my hands in there and completely rearrange the universe belonging to the critters in my ocean box.- i’m going to try my hand at actually aquascaping the tank rather than have it be a box filled with water and a pile of rocks in the middle.- keeping a marine tank isn’t all that much harder than freshwater.- you just have to pay attention to it more (which is easy because i obsess over hobbies) and you have to be a lot more patient (which is hard because i obsess over hobbies).- after about two months up, two shrimp, about 5 snails, possibly 4 hermit crabs, and a clownfish later things seem to be leveling out. which is good because i want more critters.