New Additions

I replaced my quarantine bucket with an actual tank to make it easier light and monitor new additions. Photo isn't great since I'm using a 6500K CFL bulb for the quarantine. Most of what you see above I got from my local frag swap a few weeks ago and I'm excited about the duncan coral and montiporas. I'm especially excited about the Diaseris frag I bought from a semi-local reefer (upper right in photo). ...

This is my first aquarium video. Nothing special except two of my new additions:



For several weeks I've kept a Caulastrea and a green-tip hammer coral in quarantine and I decided that it was now safe to introduce them to my tank. The hammer coral I picked up from a local club member. I was expecting a small head of coral, but he handed me a huge deli container with a 4-inch tall frag. It's now the largest piece in my tank and it's ...

At BAYMAC last weekend, I acquired some new equipment and decided to take the time to de-uglify my tank. I had two "spare" clumps of Chaetomorpha happily expanding in the main display tank and the corals from the February frag swap were randomly scattered. Everything looks nicer and cleaner now.

CPR Aquatics had a booth at BAYMAC, so I bought a small Aquafuge to replace my makeshift AquaClear ...

On Saturday I went to my first frag swap, hosted by my local reef club, the Bay Area Reefers (BAR). Here's my loot in the quarantine bucket:



It was a little overwhelming actually. There were swarms of people, a pleathora of raffles, and the picking rounds seemed to flash before my eyes. I couldn't find everything I was looking for but I'm very happy with what I got. For some reason I ended up ...

This is Maturin, he's acclimating to my tank:


I wasn't planning on getting another coral so soon, but I was visiting the much raved Aquatic Collection for the first time and spotted this beautiful orange Fungia. My first corals were doing well, I was planning on a plate anyway, and Fungias are known to be very hardy, so I decided to nab him on the spot. He's less than 2 inches across, so ...

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