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  1. lawnmower blenny and tiger pistol shrimp!

    ok, i will make this real quick because I can not believe what I am seeing in my tank right now. I have not seen my tiger pistol shrimp in months...literally I have not seen this shrimp since I added him to the tank months ago. Well over the last few days I have notices his burrow has gotten much larger over night than previously. Well I am not sure if there is any history to this but I have just watched the lawnmower blenny "stand watch" while the tiger pistol comes out of the burrow ...
  2. If it's not one thing it's another

    Well it has been quite a while since I have posted anything so I will give a quick rundown of how things have been going.

    First off sadly I have been a little busy caught in life to really take great care of my tank (second child born, in-laws in town, oldest back to school, etc.) so it has been running on autopilot for a while. I am fighting a fairly large hair algae problem currently and I think it stems from me not adding any live rock when I did the tank restart at the beginning ...
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  3. Tank update

    Well it's been a while since I have wrote a tank update so here we go. I am still fighting the caulerpa outbreak in my tank but with regular trimmings and one of my newest tank addition (a yellow tang) it is starting to come under control a bit.

    My wife found that there was water magically appearing around the tank and after further investigation I discovered my pump was leaking that cycled water in my closed loop system. I have yet to get the time to try and figure out a new way of ...
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  4. Just a little about my setup

    Well, I guess since this is my first entry I will tell a little about my tank. I started saltwater with a nano tank I acquired from a friend a little over a year and a half ago, it didn't take long to cycle since it was still used when i got a hold of it just far out of parameters. after about a two month cycling process I added a small CUC and a yellow tail damsel. One week later my first coral was added, a frag of green star polyps about the size of the tip of my pinkie finger, it had begun! soon ...
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