| New Photo Gallery! |
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Time flies whether you are having fun or not! Actually I have been having some fun with the band lately which is a good thing. We
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| Visitors From Afar - Tank Changes - Other Photos! |
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Let me start by saying hello to our visitors from far off lands. As some of you may know already, our tank is setup in Southern
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| A couple of Photos..... |
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Another month has gone by, and it is hard to believe that we are already this far into 2004! Time flies when you're having fun
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| Happy New Year! - New Photos - New Wallpaper |
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Happy New Year to all you nano reefers out there! It is really hard for me to believe that it is really 2004 already. I guess
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| New Desktop Wallpapers! |
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I took some time out this Sunday to put together three new Desktop Wallpaper images for you to download and put on your desktop!
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| Tank of the Month - Nano-Reef.com!!! |
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Woohooo! Our tank was chosen to be Tank of the Month over at my favorite website Nano-Reef.com. This site is the only site on the
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| New Desktop Wallpapers! |
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New desktop wallpapers have been added, so have a look on the main page where you may download them for free as always. I
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| Back from vacation! |
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Well it's true.... Liza and I took a trip out into the Eastern Sierra once again to relax and take it easy. RIGHT! We were up
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| New Desktop Wallpapers |
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Just wanted to note that I have added three new reef desktop images after several requests to change the previous set. This set
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| Some new photos! |
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Well it has been a crazy month. Half of this month I was sick with a flu like viral infection of some sort, so between that the
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| Some photos from last weekend... |
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Here are some of the photos taken last weekend of Cam Barr's 40 gallon reef and Project Reef's 90 gallon reef. Both of these
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| Lots Of New Photos! - Water Change |
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I finally took some time last evening after our water change, to take some photos of our Nano Reef! I went ahead and posted 13
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| Forums are back online! |
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Well after a very trying day of geeking out, the 7 Gallon Forums are back online! Please login using your regular
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| No More Gobies - Anenome Update - New Clown |
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Well I am sorry to say that the last of our 2 Green Banded Gobies has dissapeared. The first one to go was actually a couple
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| ONE YEAR OLD! - That Darn Anenome! |
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Just wanted to note the fact that our little reef is officially one year old! What a great introduction to saltwater reefkeeping
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| New Bubble Tip Anenome! |
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Well in last weeks news entry, I mentioned that we had gotten another Anenome for our little Minibow. I had been gawking at a
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| Happy Memorial Day! - New Photos - New Anenome! |
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As the title says, Happy Memorial Day folks. We will be celebrating the holiday which is also the first official weekend of
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| New Nano Photos - Friends Tanks - Minibow.com! |
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Well it has been a while since I added news, but here I am again with a new News update and new photos to share with you! As far
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| Happy Easter! - A Couple Photos - Water Changes |
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Happy Easter Nano Reefers! Hope you find all of the eggs hidden around the yard this year. I decided today would be as good as
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| Lots Of New Photos! - Water Change |
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Been a while since I added Nano News to the site again, but we have been busy with the basic Nano maintenance regardless. In the
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| Wow! What A Difference! |
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It has been quite some time since I added news to the site! Since adding the Minibow Forum, I have kept much of my posting on the
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| Late Water Change Note (ENL) |
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Well this week brings me into a whole new zone of lazyness when it comes to water changes. The water change was actually
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| New Photos - New Forums - Water Change |
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Well I broke down and scraped the glass on Sunday during our weekly maintenance water change making our Minibow look much nicer.
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| Water Change - New Green Banded Goby |
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Our local fish store's latest shipment included some Green Banded Gobies. I found this out from Cameron who works at the store
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| New Zoos, Anenome, Candy - Photos, Water Change |
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First off let me say Happy New Year to all you faithful readers, as well as you new ones! What a crazy year for frags this has
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| New Frags! - New Photos! - Water Change |
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I was lucky enough to meet up with a local reefer name Ed aka Fridmani this past weekend. While there he showed Paul (Friends
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| Merry Christmas - Water Change |
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Merry Christmas from Liza and myself. May all of your reefs overflow with good tiding this year! It is hard to believe how fast
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| Water Change - New Desktop Wallpapers! |
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Well I just wanted to make a note that yesterday we performed a one gallon water change on our Nano Reef. As always, I vacuumed
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| New Zoonthids! - Water Change |
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A few days ago, Paul and I went over to visit Anthony and see some Zooanthid frags that he had available in his tank. He ended up
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| New Frags! Blastomussa & Montipora |
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I was lucky enough this week to see an ad on the Reef Central Coral Selling forum from Project Reef aka Ali who is a local reefer
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| Wow 6 Months Old!! - New Zoos - Water Change |
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Here, take this cigar.....Well it is really hard to believe, and time most surely indeed must fly when you're having fun because
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| Nano Photos - Water Change- Capnella Sewing |
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Last evening, I took an opportunity to post 18 new updated photos of our Nano Reef. There are some nice closeups since the glass
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| New Friends Photos |
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Well I was over at Paul's today with my camera, so I added some updated photos of his 60gallon reef system. His reef is really
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| Water Change - New Nano Photos |
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As the headline reads, we performed our regular weekly maintenance 1 gallon water change a couple of days late. Needless to say,
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| New Zooanthid Photos - Water Change |
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Well this past weekend, Paul (from Friends Tanks section)and I went to get some Zooanthid frags from Anthony (also from Friends
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| New Email List |
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Hey! In case you didn't notice, I put together an email based list that I can send email to whenever there is new news or photos
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| Water Change - New Friends Photos! |
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Well, other than the usual maintenance water change message, you may have noticed, I put together a visual timeline showing the
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| New Photos - Water Change |
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Well I have been bad for the last couple of water changes and have not posted them here as I should. Well not to worry, water
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| Updated Nano Photos! |
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Well this morning, I took the time to shoot some updated photos of our Nano Reef. Paul took good care of our reef while we were
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| Fishing Trip! - Photos Included |
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Well we packed up and went to the High Sierras for some late summer fishing, hiking, and photography for the last week. Armed
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| Maintenance Water Change - News Update! |
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Well I just wanted to note that I performed a 1 gallon water change last evening as basic maintenance on our little reef. In case
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| New Friends Tank Photos |
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There are updated photos on the friends tanks section. Both Sharkdude's and Calagero's photos have been updated with new photos
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| New Photos Added! |
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Well all has been going well in our Nano Reef recently. The Xenia is growing like mad, our Mushrooms are beginning to propogate,
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| Water Change - Paul's Tank Photos |
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Well I performed a 1 gallon water change as regular maintenance today on our little reef. Everything is growing just fine, and I
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| New Tank in Friends Tanks Section |
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Well when I went to Irvine to pick up our newest frags, I met a local reefer named Anthony with a great looking 55gallon/10gallon
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| Happy Birthday Liza! - Water Change |
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Well it's Liza's birthday today, so Happy Birthday to Liza! In order to follow our maintenance schedule, I performed a much
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| New Frags! |
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I met Anthony last evening (a local reefer) and picked up two new frags from his 55 gallon reef system. He sold us a rock with
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| New Goby Photos - Updated Paul's Reef Photos |
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Well I posted some new photos of our newest member, the Green Banded Goby. It has decided to come down off of the back wall and
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| New Green Banded Goby - Water Change |
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Well, we went to the Local Fish Store today to get some salt water for water changes, and we ended up with more than we expected.
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| Friends Tank Photos - Water Change - Powerhead |
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Well, today I got the time to post some new photos of Paul's new reef system that is in the process of being setup. He now has
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| New Photos Added! (finally!) |
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Well after a what seems like a long hiatus in reef photography, I finally had an evening to sit down and look at our little reef.
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| Water Change and general update! |
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Well I finally got the time to change the water in our little tank today... I have been neglecting our reef website since last
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| Water Change - Caulerpa Removal |
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Performed a one gallon water change today as part of weekly basic Nano maintenance schedule. Vacuumed out sunbathing Planaria
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| Water Change - Paul's Sump - New Photos |
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Well as the headline suggests, we performed a 1 gallon water change today as part of our weekly Nano Reef maintenance routine.
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| New Frag!!! |
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Thats right, we got a new frag today from our new reefer friend Mike in Oceanside. Paul and I went to Oceanside to see Mike again
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| Moving and Fragging Xenia - Water Change |
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Last night we decided to move the Xenia from the sand bottom of our little reef to more permanent spots up on the rock. We left
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| New Photos Added - 100 Photos! |
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I just wanted to let readers know that I added 11 new photos to the Nano Photos section today. With this 11 photos, there are now
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| New Stuff! |
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Well, Liza and I went to the LFS and made two great new purchases for our Nano Reef last evening. They had some nice looking new
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| Liza's New Macro Lens |
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Well Liza got to go shopping at work yesterday, and purchased a new macro lens for her Canon EOS D-60. This macro gets much
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| New Photos Added! |
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Check out the newest photos of our little reef taken today. Liza may be getting a macro lens for her camera soon through her job.
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| Water Change and Xenia Splitting |
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Performed a routine 1 gallon water change with store bought premixed Reverse Osmosis Saltwater. Siphoned out a some planaria with
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| New Green Star Polyps |
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Well it's been a few days since adding any new Nano News, but sure enough there has been some news to add.... I have just been
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| Water Change |
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Performed a 1 gallon water change today. Calcium was high today (over 500ppm?) when I checked it with the Salifert test kit. I
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| New Photos All Over! |
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Be sure to take a look at our new Nano specs. We have new livestock and a new updated tank photo! There are also many new photos
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| Happy 4th of July / Water Change |
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Here, hold this sparkler in celebration of the 4th, while I tell you what happened in our reef just now. We performed a 1 gallon
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| New Frags, New Wisdom, New Pictures!! |
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That's right.... New frags, new wisdom, and new pictures... all coming very soon. Today, Liza and I went over to a fellow local
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| Baby Snails |
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I thought that I should make mention of the fact that we have been seeing baby snails on our Live Rock lately. These snails are
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| No More Percula |
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Well, I decided that our Percula was too large of a fish for our Nano. I felt guilty not being able to feed it as much as I'd
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| Maintenance - Water Change |
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Performed 1 gallon water change and cleaned the glass with a magnetic glass cleaner.
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| Worm Photos Added! |
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This morning the worm had itself at the far end of its hole. Its hole has gotten progressively longer as time goes by, and it
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| Calcium Level Is about Right |
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To see if it would help out in opening the Mushroom, we ran a carbon filter in the Whisper HOB filter last evening. So far there
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| New Mushroom Seems Unhappy |
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Our new Mushroom Coral seems to be unhappy with where it has been located. It opens and closes and seems to be doing a clam
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| New Mushroom and Water Change |
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Today, Liza and I went to the LFS to pick up some RO water for top off and water changes on our 44 gallon freshwater tank, and we
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| New Friends Tanks Section |
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In order to emliminate any further confusion about that Koran Angelfish being kept in a 7 Gallon Nano :P I have decided to add a
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| New Photos Added |
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I added some photos today of the hitchhiker snail and sponges that came on our Live Rock as well as new photos of our Percula
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| New Percula and Koran Angel! |
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Well the mission to pickup our new Percula Clown and Paul's Koran Angel from Marine Depot went well. The traffic getting there
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| Water change and Fish Day! |
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I did a one gallon water change today, getting the tank ready for the new True Percula Clown that will be going into the tank
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| Shifty worm....... |
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Last night we both tried to get a picture of the imfamous worm at different times of the night! Unfortunately the darn thing
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| Worm Spotting |
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Well this morning Liza spotted a large worm in the sand against the front glass. This thing is about 3" and is green with a
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| Water Change |
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No huge event here. Just a 1 gallon water change. Everything is still alive!
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| Snails and Our 1st Frag! |
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Well there is a noticeable algae buildup on the tank glass now, so I decided to buy a few Astrea Snails from the LFS.
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| Thought it died… |
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Well when I got home today I saw what I thought was a Hermit Crab carcass….. I immediately began counting shells. Finally
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| Adding Hermit Crabs |
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Went to the LFS to day and purchased 4 Blue Legged Hermit Crabs. They are pretty cool, and really seem to be getting around. Here
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| Tank is cycled already! |
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Wow! I have been watching the ammonia/nitrite levels with basic Aquarium Pharmaceuticals test kits, and they show that the
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| Installing the CPU Fan |
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Radio Shack had the mini CPU Fan (CAT NO 273-240) and AC/DC Converter I needed to begin the instalation of the fan. The fan was
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| Adding Live Rock |
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My girlfriend "Liza" and I went to the LFS this evening and hand picked 8.5lbs of "Uncured" Fiji Live Rock. I
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| Adding Live Sand |
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Well I went to the Local Fish Store (LFS) and purchased 8lbs of Fiji Live Sand from one of their tanks. I put down 2lbs of dry
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| Heating problems come and gone |
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Well, the tank is running hot with the glass under the new retrofit light. The tank is running at around 84F which is too hot
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| Setting heater and testing water flow |
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Well here they are….. The first pictures our new Nano Reef without the reef…. I am running the tank with freshwater
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| Hang On Back Filter and Heater |
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I decided on a Whisper 10-15 w/lid for the HOB filter for our Nano. They have them at WalMart for $9.97, what a deal!
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| Lighting has arrived! |
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Well, I received the Lighting Retrofit/Rio pump today from Premium Aquatics. The bulb unfortunately is broken. Premium Aquatics
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| Final Decision on Lighting |
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I have decided to go with the CLS 32 Watt Smart Light Retrofit and I will order it from Premium Aquatics. I have read a lot of
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| Painting the back of the tank |
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WalMart can be a really great store. I was looking for Krylon brand paint to paint our Bowfront, because it is safe on rubber
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| Purchasing our tank! |
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I've decided on an AGA 7 gallon bowfront. These tanks are $59.99 at PetSmart in my area but can be purchased online for the same
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| Stepping up from Freshwater Tanks |
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I have begun the planning our Nano-reef using mainly information that I have found online. There are many websites dedicated to
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