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On 6/10, the tank turned seven months old. Which means fresh pictures, right? I've been doing some necessary maintenance to clean up the system because I prefer it that way, but also because Gary Parr is coming to visit and asked specifically to photograph my reef. All the Vortechs are clean, the viewing panels are spotless, the overflow scraped down to the glossy black acrylic once more. The reef is ready.

I see blue polyps in this montipora, and some interesting rootlike veins. ...

When I built the fishroom back in early 2011, I set up my lightrack to move it out of the way when needed. This isn't often because I use Lumenbright pendants which are way up off the water, but when I need to take them down for cleaning, this is when it's worth the installation back then.

In the picture above, it is pushed all the way back by via rollers riding the track hangers affixed to the ceiling.

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Does anybody still hatch there own Brine Shrimp? Melev, I was reading on your site that you once did.

I was thinking of buying a cheap hatchery and adding them to my tank once in a while.

No reef is ever perfect, no matter how much you want it to be. One thing declines as another improves. Here are some examples from yesterday:

Declining: These Blastos were happy, but now the right side is dying off. Could be the vermetid snail beneath (bright pink thing on the right), or the sponge that appears to be growing between the sclerites of the coral. I'll have to pull it loose and scrape away the sponge and have a run at that vermetid as well.

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Odds are there are many new features, but this basic one caught me off guard so I'm sharing it now. Fusion is no longer in Beta-stage, it's 100% live. If you've not opted to go this route yet, it's time to get your firmware updated and enjoy the cloud-based features. Number one for me is the speed. You can make a change and it implements it within half a second, compared to the older method (Apex App). Fusion is browser-based, so you can access it with any computer or smartphone and it will ...