For me, milestones are important. Being able to hit specific goals or maintain something for a measurable time period is always rewarding. If you aren't familiar with the 400g's history, here's the quick recap: February 2011: I started up the 400g dream tank to be my reef for the next decade. 13 months later it sprung a leak. 18 months after that - November 10, 2013 - the 400g and a 60g cube were populated by the livestock waiting in a temporary 215g setup. A lot of work went on ...
'Til I pop the cork on this bottle. In the meantime, here's a new video.
Just put this on ice... the one year anniversary of the 400g is almost here. This will be opened on Monday. I'll be doing some cleaning over the next day to have a nice system to showcase. I'm hoping to record a video summary of sorts.
Here are a few macro shots of some of the corals that I took yesterday. Can you identify the species?
Once a year I clean the protein skimmer. How I go about this task varies, but essentially I want it as close to like-new as I can get it. My Euroreef skimmer has been a valuable asset to my reef for the past 10 years, outlasting two aquariums and caring for the third at this time. For the past week very little skimmate was being collected. The body seemed to be full of bubbles but they weren't fine like usual. More coarse, they just didn't extract much waste. For about seven days ...
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