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As I walked past the frag tank today, I saw what I thought were some white bubbles near the top corner. I was about to swipe them out, as I like my tanks clean but realized it wasn't foam at all. I had to take out the Macro lens for this one as I thought you'd find it interesting.




It was an elongated Asterina starfish. These starfish propagate via fission, tearing themselves in half. That little ...

Here is one of the Ricordea I brought home from Florida a few months ago. It's in a terrible spot for photography, but nice to see in person.



The Lawnmower Blenny was parked in the Nepthea, watching me.



The Cyphastrea is almost always open.

Last weekend while visiting the COMAS club at CRASE, I got to stop by Paul Whitby's beautiful 600g reef. It is 2.5 years old, and in a hybrid tank by AGE. Paul had them create a tank that has an acrylic perimeter glued to the PVC base, but the panels are starphire glass.







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So here are a few pictures from the stuff I brought home from CRASE, as promised. Some (or most) of the Chromis. The tank now has 36 in it.




The corals were given a 24 hour Interceptor bath, then a 10+ minute dip in ReVive. The corals were then moved to my frag tank.



Plenty of dry food for a while.

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I just got home less than an hour ago. We (DFWMAS members) had a great time at CRASE in Oklahoma City, seeing the members from the club up there and talking about next year's MACNA to them. I had the opportunity to meet up with many friends, like Joe Yaiullo (from the Altantis Aquarium in Long Island and runs the 20,000g reef), Laura Birenbaum (who works at Acan Lighting now and who was on RA's podcast and in one of our videos), Tony Vargas (who recently released his new book via all the social ...