Tank Entry

Coralvue sent me out some of the Biospheres NP pellets to try out on my tank. I've held off for a bit to make sure my tank was stable and in a good position to switch from the Vertex biopellets I've been running since early February.

This bag holds 1 liter of biopellets.


The biospheres are packed in a ziplock sealed bag within the main packaging that also can be resealed.
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This weekend, my reef got a huge cleaning, tackling a lot of things that I felt needed addressing. My lighting fixture above hadn't been cleaned in seven months, so each Lumenbright pendant was taken out carefully, wiped down, the glass removed and cleaned on both sides, reassembled and reinstalled. The light rack was wiped down of dust at the same time.



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Here's the promised update. My tank is now 6 months and 3 days old.

Sump area with gear.


These pictures are from the backside of the tank, from within the fishroom.





I've had this coral about 6 years, obtained just before Extreme Corals opened for business. ...

My reef turned six months old today. However, I was gone and didn't get to take pictures or have any time to share any news about the tank on its anniversary, so this is going to have to suffice.

More tomorrow.

When people come to visit, they often talk about how clean my system is. I clean everything at some point, never all at once in a single day because there is too much to do. Every few weeks, I clean the glass with a hotel Room Card (those plastic credit cards they hand you), swiping it between the glass and the sandbed to keep the view of the sand clean. I scrape off any algae along the sand bed, near the silicone seams, and along the entire top edge where the water laps up against the eurobracing. ...