Tank Entry

I was out of town when my reef turned two years old. While traveling, my tank sitter did a great job keeping everything healthy and happy for me. And you.

Here are three pictures from today.

Testing is something I always recommend to anyone, especially if their tank is seemingly off. But what about testing when everything is right? When talking to Joe Yaiullo of the Atlantis Aquarium (formerly the Long Island Aquarium), he mentioned how he tests repeatedly to make sure the results he gets are accurate. Specifically, if salinity is dead on, he tests again and again to make sure that it's actually correct and not a false sense of security. As he pointed out, when we see the numbers ...

One of the metal halide ballasts became problematic this week. I noticed about a month ago that it was occasionally not lighting the bulb on the left end of the reef, but with a little tinkering it resumed as expected. By tinkering, what I mean is taking down the ballast, cord, socket and bulb and hauling all of that into the kitchen to test it in a different outlet, and naturally it turned on just like when you take your car to the mechanic and everything works perfectly.

Last week, ...

October 10th makes the reef 23 months old today. It's been doing quite well, and runs on autopilot. I have a few new frags in the frag tank that will soon be placed in the reef, and I have to determine the perfect spots for those. Here are some new pictures taken today.



How many of the 17 clownfish can you count?



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I just ordered some pretty SPS frags that will arrive next week.

New video uploading now to Youtube. This week's topic is about skimmers, and this is going into my system soon. It's the largest NYOS Quantum skimmer, which is brand new to the market. I saw it at MACNA, and they asked me to give it a review so I'll be running it for a couple of months in my system.