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I was playing in Lightroom for a few minutes yesterday, and figured I'd really manipulate the heck out of this one picture. It's pretty amazing how something can be cleaned up, especially if you are good at this (doing it for a living). Me, I just wanted to demonstrate the difference between what came off the SD card vs. what the final result could be. I'll show you the better image first.

You can see this Frogspawn coral without annoying distractions. I used a tool to black out all ...

Lately, I've really thought my reef needs a beautiful eel. Something I can trust to be a nice reef-safe addition that won't devour my other reeflings. What's a good candidate? I do have a couple of options as to the habitat. It could live in the 400g with everything, or I could put it in the 60g with the anemones and clownfish. I find them to be so interesting and beautiful, but have never felt I could trust it to leave small fish and shrimps alone. What's the real verdict?

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We got a new tank inhabitant this week, a small anemone!

I had intended to get a slightly larger one but when I was able to go to the LFS it had been bought. They sell fairly quick over here...

So they still had this little guy, which seemed to be healthy, would fit easily in my small tank, was less expensive, almost a bargain (R$100, roughly US$50), so I decided to buy it.



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Earlier this month, I went to Las Vegas for my first time ever. While in town, I had to make it a point to visit Acrylic Tank Manufacturing, or ATM for short. Before my arrival, I had spoken to Brett Raymer via facebook to hopefully meet up, but it turned out he was stuck in California for the week. Using the address off their website, I followed the Map App to my destination, but couldn't find it. Fortunately a nice woman provided directions over the phone. Soon I saw multiple Petco 18-wheeler ...

I have always been drawn to more odd shaped fish like copperband butterflies, frogfish, pipefish, seahorses etc, but copperbands always keep me fascinated. They are not very rare and not real difficult but many people have trouble keeping them, or even getting them to eat.

In the early 70s I started to write a book (that I will never finish) and I noticed in my notes that copperbands were one of the first fish I used to keep, right after blue devils, clowns and dominoes.
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