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Ah, the beauty of nature... How it draws us in, makes us think, and piques our curiosity.

The weather is in the 90s, and I'm cleaning up equipment in my fishroom. Today I took down the lights to clean the reflectors' shells and both sides of the glass. I'll be wiping down everything, like the rim of the tank, the sump, pumps and plumbing. I also need to do all my water tests.

I'd like to clean up the display tank a little more, trim out some dead stuff and move a couple of corals.

On Monday, I'm going to BBQ. What are y'all going to do?

She's really taking up a lot of space lately. I may have to pull some LR out of the tank. This was taken earlier in the day before she engorged herself. It's a pretty creature, but it leaves little room for other stuff. The Capricornis to the left is almost a goner due to her sting.

Today I drove over to Fish2morow, a fish store in Fort Worth about 30 minutes away with good traffic. As I walked around his beautiful store checking out the choice corals and fish, I started noticing little things. It didn't take long for me to run out to the car, grab my Nikon D90, 105mm Macro lens and a tripod to get a few of these shots.

This first one is a Porcelain Crab in a Rock Anemone. These anemones are very sticky, so I was pretty surprised to see this crab being able ...

In one of my favorite corals, in the past month a real problem arose. The SPS coral growing on the overflow directly above the Toadstool Leather, a number of brown patches appeared within the branches which soon followed with algae growth. Ugh!!

Here's the coral back in December.



I tried scraping away the bad spots, and have been picking away the algae with forceps. It wasn't very ...