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In honor of the Olympics, I was wondering if any of your have heroic reef keeping stories that should have won you a medal. You've trained for years, and then one day you had to step up and do...what?

Share your story, and later I'll share mine.

Who'll win the gold?

Well after a weekend of work on the new tank here's my "Zoo-City" as I've dubbed it. I've places all my zoos in the same area of tank and I'm hoping for all of them to grow together into a mosaic of zoos over the next year. I wasn't going to move this much over this soon but the water quality was where I wanted to see it and everything is rocking and rolling so why not!



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So its been about 4 weeks now with no fish, and its getting pretty long.. lol
But it seems that its just getting worse.. things just look ugly.. the algae is getting out of control. I dont have enough flow I think but still..
The day lights are only on 5 hours a day.. my button polyps look real crappy.. gotta get rid of that aiptasia.. the only things that look good are the mushrooms..

Anyone ever gone through this sort of thing?

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With my recent blogs, you've read about how the power has been going out due to the snowfall in Fort Worth, Tx:

Snow - my favorite topic; & a power outage to deal with

No Power Again

Let me describe how I run the generator when an emergency strikes. If the power doesn't resume within one hour, the generator is used.

The generator is stored in the garage, safe from the environment. Gasoline is also stored, ...

Since 3:30am today, the power has been out to my home (as everyone else in the vicinity). As of now, it's been about 12 hours straight without juice. I was up until 6 a.m. waiting for it to come back on, then I finally fell asleep. I got up around noon, as my son brought back a hot chicken teriyaki subway sandwhich, which helped warm me up a bit. The house was 65F then. I'm glad I took a hot shower with the stored water in the water heater before I went to sleep.

I installed a ...