Tank Entry

The 400g arrived yesterday, and this morning I uncrated it as I awaited all the volunteers that offered to help bring it inside. I purchased bottled water, sodas, snacks, and even had cash to give to all my helpers, but they declined that latter offer.

It was carefully crated, and I took out about 100 screws to remove the plywood walls protecting it during its trip to my house.

This eurobracing ...

It's been a long wait, but I'm happy to see a huge crate in my yard today. Tomorrow a bunch of DFWMAS members are coming over to squeeze this through the front door.

An official check in to let you know I'm still around... I'm always around actually. I don't start new blogs up too often because a lot of people are subscribed to my blog and don't want to clutter up their inbox with minor chatter. I do check the blogs daily to see what you are posting, and if there's any SPAM to deal with. Reef Addicts is about to get another software update. It's already set up on a test site now, awaiting a little time to make sure all is running as it should.

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With MACNA less than two weeks away, I've been really really really busy. Fortunately, my reef is running on auto pilot and doing quite well.

I recently got two samples of food from Reef Nutrition to use in my tank, and my fish love it. I'm feeding it both during the day time and adding a tsp of each each night after lights out for the corals to snack upon. All my fish are actively chasing it down, and the suncorals seem to accept it readily.

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Thanks to Henry's request, I had to take a full tank shot and figured I might as well take a few more of the livestock.




Female Lyretail Anthias, and a Pygmy Angelfish


One of two male Lyretail Anthias




Birdsnest colony and recovering ...