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  1. Cloudy moments - calcium reactor drama

    I tend to prefer to show you pictures of the reef when it is gorgeous, naturally. Not often do I post pictures like these.

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    Fear not, nothing is amiss. It was more cloudy before I took these pictures, and at this point post photo edit and typing up the blog, it's already a little more clear.

    The calcium reactor burned through a lot of media over the past six weeks, pretty much liquefying ...
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  2. A whole bunch of Topdown eye candy

    It was time for me to get up on the walkboard and get some nice pictures of a number of corals from the best perspective: looking down. Here are the results from today's session.

    Using a Nikon D90 and 105mm Macro lens in a Top Down Photo Box, pictures were framed, shot and processed in Lightroom.
    You can purchase one here: http://www.melevsreef.com/node/42


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  3. Saturday - it's raining... what to do

    Done:
    Clean the penductors and get the flow improved again
    Fix the sandbed on the left end of the reef
    Rearrange the rock and corals a little for a new look
    Remove dead coral rubble in the sand
    Make space around the Sebae anemone and move some zoanthids
    Clean the overflow panel
    Clean the Vortech pumps - soak in vinegar
    Feed the fish
    Water change
    Clean the sump of detritus, tube worms and other calcifications
    Clean the skimmer body ...
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    Tank Entry
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