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They won't say anything after its posted, they usually catch it during uploads.

Simply beautiful Marc!

Wow Marc, gorgeous tank. The tangs make it look small and you already have too many corals....maybe you should have went to 800 gallons.

After testing the ammonia today, I did a bigger water change. Probably 70%. There's too many fish in this little tank, so I've got to stay on top of it. Testing Ammonia again, and it was down, around .25

Well, they've not said anything yet. I need some music that is roughly 6.5 minutes long and that was handy.

Looks great, how did you get youtube to let you keep the music? Every time I load a video with music it says I can't use it.

Looks really nice =) Can't wait to see it mature!
Been a fan of your reefing/acrylic works for about 6 years or so now, thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

Got some new pictures last night.

60 meters! That's great for that price. You could use it for SCUBA as well. I'd like to see some slow video though - the one I watched was a sampling during dirt bike riding, when everything doesn't have to be crisp since you are moving at 40+ MPH. Let's see what you can do with your camera from outside of the tank to get a feel for how good it is.

I have the HD Flip as well, but don't use it much.

i just ordered a GoPro HD, its water proof to 60 meters. I would think that your cam would be better, but it might be pretty cool to be able to take vids from inside the tank

here is the one i ordered
http://gopro.com/cameras/hd-motorsports-hero-camera/

Such a geek! Couldn't the "softness" be from compression? Seems to me the D90 HD should be as good as any other "HD".

I do refer to them at Pajama cardinals, but they were also listed on a website as Red Spotted cardinalfish, so I carried over that mistake, apparently.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but those cardinals look more like Pajama Cardinals to me: http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesS...me=nematoptera

fishbase lists two redspot cardinals: http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesS...iesname=dispar
and http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesS...t+cardinalfish

He painted the eggcrate various colors with Krylon Fusion spray paint for Plastics.

Awesome coverage, thanks for posting.

PS- Is the eggcrate racks that Jason is using something custom made, or were they painted? Very interested to know!

when i handle one of my rocks with Zoanthids on it even without consciously touching the zoanthids within a day or two the skin peels off my fingers. this happens every time.

AMW expansion, wow! the best reef tank in the world and now they are getting even better. way to go Joe.

I don't keep my reef cold. The temperature is usually around 79F. The average is more around 81F, so if my tank goes up in temperature a little, it has room. 79-81F is pretty much what the tank is most of the year. I don't agree with Dr Ron's point of keeping corals at 84F, especially when oxygen levels plummet if the tank hits 85F. At that point, you need to add an airstone to your system for the fish to be okay. My tank is set up to kill the lights if the tank goes up to 83F or more.

I'll pick up some Chloram-X if my LFS has it. Thanks.

Btw, I got a little nervous about the water quality and did another water change, added some Prime, and introduced an airstone to add oxygen to the water, and I added two more gallons to the volume. I tested Ammonia but it read 0. I was running it a little shallow to help prevent any jumpers.

choram-X works great for QT tanks and is not harmful for inverts either. cheaper than water changes too. if you put in live rock and your fish are sick the live rock will not be able to go back in the main system.

why do you keep your reef so cold? http://www.ronshimek.com/salinity_temperature.html#

Carl

Just added one more. What a crazy news day.

I need to find out actually. I thought it was a April Fools prank, but it's well past that now.