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.

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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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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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

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