Taking a break

April 30th, 2012

I’ve not posted to the blog in a long time. I’ve decided to take a break from running a tank for a while. I slowly took the Solana down over the last few weeks. I’ll get back to this eventually, but for now this site just holds some of the past articles and pictures of the two small tanks I ran over that last six years.

New Additions

December 18th, 2010

My coris wrasse became mysteriously ill and died. I’ve added a mystery wrasse, a rainford goby (love these guys), serveral types of zoanthids, and some nice brick red mushrooms.

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New Frags!

August 12th, 2010
Full tank 8/12/2010

Full tank 8/12/2010

I swung by a store yesterday afternoon and left with some aqua cultured frags. Picked up some green birds nest, a chunk of awesome purple with green/orange polyps superman montipora, and some nice plating orange montipora. I plan on attaching plating monti frags to the back wall to see if I can get a nice shelf effect.

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Annnnnd, we’re back!

August 9th, 2010

31 days in, and I’ve moved the critters back into the Solana. Things went pretty well. I double dipped everything except the fish in water dosed with flatworm control, and fragged away every bit of rock I could in an attempt to rid myself of the flatworm plague and macro algae infestation. I hope it goes well.

Acclimating

Acclimating

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Clearing Up – New Giesemann Light

July 11th, 2010

Water is clearing up nicely. I hung the new light fixture yesterday. Testing it out today…

New Rock

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