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This guy found out the hard way that they are not equal.

I ran over to Bobby's house yesterday to get some pictures of his beautiful reef. There's something to be said for smaller tank, especially while the individual corals are smaller colonies. Everything looks cleaner, more tidy.

The other reason I'm sharing this is because of his gear selection. He's upgraded to a smaller tank with better gear over what he had previously.

This is a 58-gallon Oceanic Illuminata

It ...

It's official, the tank is out of the house. Prior to everyone's arrival, I built a quick 8' pallet out of landscape timbers, 1x material, and some wafer decking.







Installing 2x4s under the ...

I know many of you have wondered what is going on with the tank that leaked. To sum up, during the past two months I had to fly out to California to promote MACNA, came back to deal with the livestock in a tank that was 50% full (lagoon-mode), borrowed a 215g from a friend, got really sick that lasted 10 days, took another week to recover from that, moved the livestock into the 215g, took 450 lbs of sand out of the tank and cleaned it out.

It was then that I reached out to Marineland, ...

I bought a very pretty lobophyllia about two weeks ago. I put it in the frag tank where it would get a meal and not be bothered by my dwarf angels. Within a couple of days, it attacked my suncorals. It was obvious because a huge glob of clear jelly was covering about 8 large polyps. I moved the attacking coral further away, and pulled the suncoral out of the tank and repeatedly blew off the infection in a bucket of tank water to help salvage the coral. I ended up saving all but two polyps. ...