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Today it was 'cooking for my fishies' time :-)

Last week I bought a fresh seafood pack at the market then froze it for a few days to kill pathogens. I unfroze it in the fridge from yesterday to today, and tonight ground it to a paste with some Cyclop-eeze, nori and some gelatin.

Pictures of the 'cooking':


My kid helping ...

A few update pictures for this evening:

Full Tank Shot

Full Tank Shot 2

2.5 Year old hitchhiker (Seems to be a LPS as it has a skeleton, unlike a mushroom or anemone)

Sun Coral on the road to recovery. I picked it up a a LFS for a deal as it was wasting away. I have been feeding it 5 days a week and it is starting to make a comeback.
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For the past two weeks, I was thinking about modifying my Euroreef protein skimmer so it could work in conjunction with my NextReef biopellet reactor. I was considering drilling a hole in the body of the skimmer, inserting a uniseal and then pumping the effluent of the reactor into the reaction chamber of the skimmer. In this way, it would definitely export dead or dying bacteria exiting the reactor. Perhaps that stuff was causing the dinoflagellates in my tank, I really don't know.
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Come on Reef Addicts lets see your Full Tank Shot for May!!

Will post mine later today when I get to my computer. Wanted to get it started!

Here ya go:

And a few other shots!

*** EVERYONE PARTICIPATE PLEASE!

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Just starting using pio pellets in system. Was switching from a Pura phosLoc... Boight a new reactor and no maintence... Any bio pellet rewiews?