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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Stock of Rock

July 8th, 2010

Dropped by Triangle Tropical Fish today to check out their stock of rock. They had some nice Fiji rock for only $4.99/lb so I snapped up about 20.5 lbs.

Holding Tank

July 7th, 2010

I dug the old Aquapod out of storage to use as a holding tank for the critters while I restart the Solana. It still looks pretty good! The Reef Keeper 2 still works, although the back light is very dim these days.

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