As I reported not to long ago, my Skimmer Swabbie's squeegee bracket broke. I received a new one in the mail on Saturday, but it didn't match what I've had all this time. I did have to trim off the excess rubber at each end, because otherwise it would have been too tall. The groved section of the bracket is longer than ...
Years ago, I got this coral from a local vendor that was about to open for business. It's a beautiful maze coral that has done well or poorly as things happened with water quality. It was plagued with cyano that refused to go away, to the point that I was ready to write it off. When it was down to less than 20% life, it suddenly decided to reverse course and heal. It took nearly a year to fully recover to the point you couldn't tell it ever looked bad. When the tank leaked a year ...
Wanting to take a picture of one subject, I ended up with a few to share. The Hammer zone in the center of the reef is impressive. The Yellow Scroll coral is healing a little bit more every day. This was a blind shot with a top down photo box. I just pointed and clicked, and got a decent image from the effort. ...
While traveling, the reef is automated for the most part, although I do have someone check on the tank daily just to make sure everything is working as it should. Since getting back, I've been sick sick sick. Taking medication has made me sleepy, and I've not had the desire to lift a finger for the past six days, other than to add some thawed fishfood to the reef before the lights shut off for the night. The Apex has been keeping everything firing on 8-cylinders, the top off is replenishing ...
Six months of time elapsed between images July 2012 Jan 2013 July 2012 Jan 2013 July 2012 Jan 2013 And eight months between full tank shots June 2012 ...
Updated 02-18-2013 at 12:28 AM by melev