Tank Entry

I love this first chalice, especially under 20,000K lighting.

This green and blue one is doing quite well.

A little frag was gifted to me by popular vote on DFWMAS, and this is the actual color of the tissue. I used a flash to keep the color honest.

This little guy is amazing. You ...

The left side of my reef suffers from sand movement. The ebb of the Vortech pump seems to pull the sand toward the pump, leaving a huge low spot at least a foot wide that coincidentally buries some corals on the left. It wasn't this bad at first, but something changed and it will move in a day instead of over a week's time. In this recent picture, you can see the big hole. Maybe I bumped up the flow rate, I'm not sure.

I took a couple of ...

Now that I'm nearly completely caught up from all the orders that were placed over the holidays, it's nice to feel a moment of relaxation. I totally expected a serious lull in business from Christmas to New Years, but it was quite the opposite. I went to spend time with family in Arizona, and the entire time I was away orders kept rolling in. I've spent all my time trying to get everything built, packed and shipped and stressed about it the entire time.

The reef is doing very well. ...

It occurred to me that I'd not taking a picture of the refugium zone in a while. Feather caulerpa has been my staple for many years, and even though I run biopellets the macro algae seems to grow well. My display tank stays algae free, although I do see some micro algae taking hold in the anemone tank. I'll have to manually assault that situation before it gets out of hand.

A couple of pest anemones are in the refugium, but can be removed ...

Today marks the date the livestock moved into the 400g and the 60g. Sometimes people confuse that with the date the tank was started up, thinking that the necessary cycle was rushed or the livestock was simply thrust into the tank in some type of mad rush. No, two months ago all the livestock was transferred out of the 215g and my frag tank into the 400g and the 60g. The 400g had been running with sand, live rock and water for nearly four weeks before livestock was added. The sump with all the ...