Wednesday13’s Fish Room

[wednesday13]

Damn....I thought I had the world's largest rohani barb! I have one loner that mixes it up in my stock tank, solid 6-7", but yours is a true monster rohani lol. Seems they don't need a group like so many people insist, thrive when they're odd man out.

Guy is a trooper… atleast 11-12 yrs old now. The lone survivor of an original 11. Sadly i had a few that made it to 5-6” and my rays ate them… thing is an ass tho lol. He chewed up my 40” lung a year ago maybe. He goes rounds with the knives and tinfoils. Never learns.

 

[Backfromthedead]

Guy is a trooper… atleast 11-12 yrs old now. The lone survivor of an original 11. Sadly i had a few that made it to 5-6” and my rays ate them… thing is an ass tho lol. He chewed up my 40” lung a year ago maybe. He goes rounds with the knives and tinfoils. Never learns.

That's a wily old veteran for sure, lives on the edge, pushes the boundaries trying to hold onto his youth. Judging by his looks mightve been swallowed by a knifefish a time or two before fighting his way out. Legendary.

 

[jjohnwm]

That's a wily old veteran for sure, lives on the edge, pushes the boundaries trying to hold onto his youth. Judging by his looks mightve been swallowed by a knifefish a time or two before fighting his way out. Legendary.

We're still talking about the barb, right?

 

[jjohnwm]

I put those bags up just for u John lol… i did actually change the lighting tho … had to try it on the bags, ive read u mention it many times on here. They static clung better than i expected.

Dang! I hate it when one of my ideas works out better for someone else than it did for me!

You appear to have crinkled the crap out of those bags before slapping them on, and it gives a nice rockwork-like look to it. I always just smoothed a nice clean flat bag onto the glass, right out of the box. Looked like paint. Now I gotta try to replicate the effect you have there.

It's tough going through life with no imagination...

 

[Backfromthedead]

We're still talking about the barb, right?

Haha i did notice a narwhal-bandaid-wrapped thumb in one of those pics. Somebody must like petting his lungfish...could've been that scumdog rohani though

 

[wednesday13]

Dang! I hate it when one of my ideas works out better for someone else than it did for me!

You appear to have crinkled the crap out of those bags before slapping them on, and it gives a nice rockwork-like look to it. I always just smoothed a nice clean flat bag onto the glass, right out of the box. Looked like paint. Now I gotta try to replicate the effect you have there.

It's tough going through life with no imagination...

The secret here is textured contractor bags i took from work lol

 

[wednesday13]

Haha i did notice a narwhal-bandaid-wrapped thumb in one of those pics. Somebody must like petting his lungfish...could've been that scumdog rohani though

i didn’t even notice that… this is what happens with a 2 yr old in house. My street cred is ruined lol

 

[jjohnwm]

The secret here is textured contractor bags i took from work lol...

Oh, sure...now you tell me...

I have exactly one all-glass tank that isn't set up as a "see-through" and on which I could try to replicate this look. So I spent a couple hours last night doing just that. I now have a pile of 6 or 7 Glad bags that have been twisted, scrunched, balled-up, stretched-out, beaten, bashed and otherwise abused...all the while putting them on, taking them off, putting them on again...all for naught!

...textured contractor bags...

 

[Egon]

What the...did you seriously just say that in a response to me???

"...pushin 40 now..."....pfffft!

Of course, I do understand, and sympathize. I mean, squeezing under my plywood 360 to remove the pump for servicing was way easier back when I was 60; it's a real PITA now...

pushing 60 now, just had a leaky bulkhead in my 1100 and that kicked my ass!

 

[wednesday13]

Exciting day of substrate removal yesterday… cple bonus pics of my catfish out cruising, hes getting much more personable all of a sudden, even hand feeding pellets outta left field. Still siphoning out bits of sand as i can. I can only take out around 75g with the system running then i wait for it to fill back up automatically. Surprised how dirty 1/2” of sparse sand was.