Old bike: 2007 Specialized Allez Elite
New Bike: 2009 Trek Madone 5.2
Can’t you tell the big difference between the two? And don’t you know white bikes make you go faster
Bike Upgrade
October 8th, 2009Turn Signal Intergration – Yamaha YZF R6 2002
April 5th, 2009After owning my bike for a number of years I finally went ahead and decided to change out the rear fender and put in a turn signal integrator. As long as I was changing the lights out on my bike I also went ahead and changed out the front turn signals to some “flush” Mounts as well. I order my rear turn signal integrator from CustomLed since they seemed to have a pretty decent price on the lights. I also made sure to get a new relay since I was removing all bulbs from turn signals and was going all leds.
The instructions from CustomLed were of a vary high quality so following them was a breeze. Of course the actual implantation of those instructions is something else entirely.
Stock Rear Fender
Stock Rear Side View
Hermit Crab Fight
February 4th, 2009So after two days of having my new blue leg hermit crab stuck in a hole with the red tip hermit crab hanging on the end of the shell sticking out, I decided enough was enough and knocked the red tip hermit crab onto the sand.
The blue leg hermit crab then crawled out of the hole he was stuck in and started to eat so I thought everything was fine and dandy.
I checked on the tank a few minutes later and noticed the blue leg racing along the tank with the red tip standing close by. I separated them again and sure enough the red tip hermit crab was cornering the blue leg hermit crab. It sure didn’t seem it was going to be a friendly greeting with how frantic the blue leg was acting.
I now had a choice to make of how to handle this. I didn’t want to out and out kill one off but one crab was going to die if I didn’t do anything. I knew that from pure aesthetic reason the blue leg hermit was going to stay. So as of now it appears the refuge clean up crew just got a little larger with the addition of one red tip hermit crab. I am not a total bad person, I at least put in a couple of empty shells for him in his new home. Hopefully after a few molts the blue leg hermit crab will be able to hold his own and I can bring the red tip out of his current exile.
New Fish
January 31st, 2009I finally broke down and added some livestock to my tank. Of course I went the very typical route with new salt water fish and added two juvenile false clowns.
Update: Fish are gone now.
Scarlet Crab Molts
January 31st, 2009So when I woke up the morning and checked on my fish tank I saw that my scarlet hermit crab decided to well make a birds nest out of my birds nest coral. I decided to leave him up there and see if he would get himself down on his own and of course he decides that it would be the perfect place to conduct a molt. Thus preventing me from moving him since I didn’t want to disturb him while he harden up and would be moving on his own. Read the rest of this entry »
New Frags
January 25th, 2009Just added some new frags to the tank.
Purple Green Yuma
Purple Fuzzy Mushroom
Hopefully once I have a DSLR I will be able to take pictures of the actual stock in my tank.
Filtration Change
January 25th, 2009I just killed a bunch of brittle stars. A very pointed first sentence but anyway. The filtration change as the headline suggests I changed some stuff on the nano wave in the third chamber. What you get in the box when you buy the nano wave for the 3rd chamber is some ceramic which I suppose is to provide some more biological filtration. This wasn’t the best type possible so I instead swapped it out with some chemi pure elite and some poly filter pads to support the chemi pure. This is where the first sentence comes from in emptying out the old ceramic a lot of brittle stars made it their home along with a couple of feather dusters. Hopefully as the day goes by the water will clear up more with the extra filtration.
Hermit crab swapped homes
January 21st, 2009Well looks like the store bought shells are a success. The scarlet hermit crab last night got themselves a new home and crawled back up top of the rocks. Of course as happy I am that the shells appear to be working out I am sad that I didn’t get to actually see him swap shells. Now all I have to do is get them to actually face the front of the tank so I can see them at work. Also I think I may have to get some seaweed for them to munch on due to food supply might be a little low.
Hermit Crab Shells
January 11th, 2009Instead of paying about 50 cent each for each shell from the fish store, I decided to follow a suggestion from a forum post that I read on how to get more shells for my hermit crabs. I went to the local hobby lobby and simple bought three bags of shells for a total just under ten dollars. Once I got these shells home I fired up the stove and boiled all the shells to clean them up before I added any to the tank. I ended up with more shells than I could possibly ever use. My two hermit crabs haven’t swapped any shells yet from either the shells from the fish store or from the newly boiled ones but if they use the craft shells I will be sure to drop a note. Below are the pictures after I boiled and somewhat sorted them out on size and shape.
New Aquascape
January 10th, 2009So this morning after my water testing i decided to rearrange the rock in the nano to give me more shelf room for attach more corals and the like. It also gave me an excuse to remove some of the larger hair algae so the caulerpa in the refuge has a chance to grow.
But hark what is that towards the bottom in the center of the tank? Why its a dragon eye zoanthid.
Not the best picture but have to use the camera that I have.