Last night we had a Lock family dinner at Taste Of Shanghai in Eastwood.
Olive rice, very nice.
Crab with salted egg (that’s egg on top of the crab shells!).
Sweet and sour trout.
I’ve eaten at this place before, didn’t rate it, but they’ve totally done up the place and the food last night was a lot better than before. Hit and miss, some dishes were pretty average but most of the dishes were different to the usual (which I think is a good thing!).
We set this up in 2007 and it’s still going strong. Last night Tony gave me the thumbs up to quote up an ADA set-up. I’ll be designing and quoting up a new tank which will be the same width (4ft) but deeper (2ft) and it’ll feature 10mm starfire glass. A new cabinet + hood needs to be sorted out too (I’m more than happy to help out!).
Last night I did my head in trying to figure out whether or not I want to leave the doors as they were or paint them white. In the end of the day I went against my instincts and painted them white. I’m missing the contrast and character of the wooden doors. Oh well, too late now!
For the moment I’m using a bit of tape at the bottom of the left door so I can open them. Might look at using something like this
We had Christina’s sister Jess + cousin Norman + his girlfriend Amanda over for dinner last night (it’s the first time we’ve had people over for dinner). Christina made chicken pies and damn it was so good!!!
Norman and Amanda (she’s a pro bowler!) coming up the stairs.
Jess.
Eggs + avo = win.
Pie!
LOL @ Jess.
A couple of bottles of wine later… Of-course we wanted to see how Amanda (the pro bowler) did on Wii bowling haha.
Almost done! Today we test fitted the doors before painting them.
These kitchen hinges are so awesome. Totally concealed and very adjustable after fitting which will make it easy to line up the doors perfectly.
Top left: there’s the little bastard who’s kicking up all the coral sand into my corals and making my water hazy!
Shame about the visible hinges at the top huh? If you know of any solutions to hide them please let me know. Bit grey outside today so painting tomorrow!
SPS Frags.
I bought some SPS frags off a reef forum member. Small Polyp Stony Fragments (SPS Frags) are pieces of acropora corals which are broken off mother colonies to start new colonies themselves. SPS are harder to keep than most other corals (I’ve tried in the pat and mine only lasted a few months), kinda like the holy grail/top end of reef keeping.
I figure I start with aqua cultured frags from a guy off the forums rather than buy big pieces which have been plucked out of the ocean. Cheaper, frags are more acclimatised to living in an aquarium and better for the environment too.
If all goes well hopefully my tank will end up looking something like this in future!
Sold for $400.
Sold for $1550.
I was hoping the bike would go for $500 (there were so many watchers!) but $400 is pretty good. Happy with the guitar too. More spending money for fish stuff aye?!
