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With the reef tank torn down, my routines are a little out of sync. I don't have to worry about cleaning the glass nor much of anything else, it seems. Still, I check on my livestock and view them from above, and make sure all the equipment is running.

The calcium reactor seemingly sprung a leak, but after a careful disassembly, no crack was found. I applied more teflon tape to the threaded area, and have it running again. I'll have to keep an eye on it and see if it happens again. ...

I hate to share bad news, but...

The Toadstool Leather that was moved out of my reef is in terrible shape. It was moved into a trashcan with live rock on July 4th. I knew it would slime heavily, and it did. I changed the water twice that week, doing 50% water changes in the barrel.

While I was out of town over the weekend, my tank sitter texted me that the house smelled terrible and that it was certainly the leather. As soon as I got home, I drained out 50% of the water ...

I think we almost died on this flight. It was the worst scare I've had on a plane ever. Landed a few minutes ago and have to catch a connecting flight in 1.5 hours.

After a momentary freefall, the captain never addressed the passengers for the final 15 mins of our flight. My guess is some thing broke and the flight crew had their hands full for the rest of the flight.

Even on the runway, he never came on the mic. Since the oxygen masks didn't fall, I guess it wasn't ...

Keeping up with my monthly tradition, here's this month's *cough* full tank shot.



I hope my reeflings will be okay for the next couple of days as I'm going out of town to speak to the club in Maine.

I'm about to fly out to Maine this weekend to speak to the club. Leaving my temporary holding vats unattended does make me uncomfortable as anything can happen.

I had to repair the calcium reactor today, but it was an easy fix. One of the thumbscrews broke off in the reactor's flange, so I carefully extracted it and installed a new one. The reactor has been off for the past seven days to let the alkalinity in the water drop down from 15dKH, the level it hit due to no sand bed or ...