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I met a local artist at Dallas Comic Con events two years ago, and discovered she used to be in the saltwater hobby herself. Lhars Ebersold does some beautiful work, some of which I've shared from her Instagram account from time to time. This is her.



I hired her to create some special light switch and outlet covers to dress things up here at Melev's Reef, and she did an incredible job. Here are some pictures. ...

Here they are as of tonight. They are doing quite well, fattening up nicely.

After a few more water changes, adding some live sand and manually removing more algae I have come to this look.

I'm now heading out to add to my clean up crew and hopefully get rid of the rest of the hair algae in the tank.

WARNING: PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!


Like I said in my previous post, this is rather embarrassing, but I'm trying to get it back on track.

BEFORE


AFTER 10 gallon water change and picking up/siphoning out as much as I could.



I also added a bag of Chemi Pure in my AC70. Giving it one more day, and then going to do another 10 gallon ...

The last time I posted on this site was 6 years ago. Seems so much longer, but I guess with 3 moves around Texas in that time, it would seem longer. I went from Georgetown Tx, to San Antonio Tx, to Arlington, TX, back to where I am now, New Braunfels, Tx. Lots of time spent up and down the I-35 corridor! Anyways in that time I have gone through several tanks and none have survived the moves. I ended up selling livestock and tanks, but for the last 2 years I have had a 20 gallon long going. Well ...