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  1. Stuff you don't see every day...

    Yesterday as I was cleaning the glass and specifically near the area where the sandbed meets the glass, I accidentally bumped this acropora with my elbow. I use a plastic room key card (like a credit card) to clean the harder spots in the tank, and sometimes my arm makes contact with a coral. I always recoil and hold my breath hoping I didn't damage a colony, but this broke was quick. I watched the branch fall slowly toward the sandbed, and felt disgusted with myself. For the time being, the ...
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  2. Day 157: Things are going pretty well

    One coral in my reef turned very pale. And oddly enough, that same exact species is in two other locations and did the exact same thing. It's very light, after shedding its zooxanthellae for whatever reason. I dont know why it did it, and I'll have to see if it survives.

    Also, a branch in a birdsnest colony in the back of the reef suddenly turned white, so I checked Alkalinity first and it was 8.5 dKH. Maybe the tongue coral got it and it wasn't a water quality situation. There ...

    Updated 04-18-2014 at 11:14 AM by melev

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  3. The lunar eclipse

    I didn't post my pictures from the Blood Moon event two nights ago. This was shot with a 200mm lens.




    And this one with a 300mm lens.



    The event started just before 2 a.m. CST and I happened to check to see what the sky was like at that point. Not a cloud in sight, and I had a decent shadow in my backyard to set up the tripod ...
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  4. Next Wave is going to be here very soon.

    May 3, that's like 16 days from now. Come attend the full day event and have fun with like-minded hobbyists.

    www.dfwnextwave.com/register

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  5. At last, it's switched over (melevsreef.com)

    It took me about two years to redesign melevsreef.com, my main website that I've cared for since roughly 2002. It has helped countless people over the years, and during my travels people come up to me often thanking me for said information provided assisted them in their reefkeeping. In early 2012, I began building a new version to replace the aged website -- using a database-driven CMS (content management system) instead of HTML-code that I was so very familiar with.

    Of course while ...
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