Propagation - fish & corals

Green Your Reef!

Welcome to the first edition of Green Your Reef! As the title suggests, I'll be writing about matters that pertaining to "Green" aspects of reefkeeping. But, "Green"? What exactly is it and what can it do for you? For my purposes here I'll use Green to frame issues such as new technology, efficiency matters of electric and water consumption, reusing and recycling when you can, sustainibility issues in the marine fish and coral trade, educate and ...

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How many of you out there have ever sat in front of your tank and sighed, remembering how exciting the hobby was when you got your first tank set up? Recalling the hours you spent staring in wonder at the infinte diversity you poured your heart and soul into building into your reef. The countless water changes performed, the meticulous testing you did and redid hoping that stubborn nitrate test wouldn't turn red. Even something a simple as seeing your first limpet stuck to the glass and thinking ...

So right before New Year's Eve I had to go out to Terre Haute, Indiana. I hate going out there but was obliged for family business so we rented a car and made the 10 hour drive(620 miles). My wife actually looking for something to do out there other then do the normal sight seeing(a ton of stuff in town is named after my family but is pretty boring) looked up some things. She found this place there called inland aquatics, I thought OK a nice fish store to waste an hour in. Holy crap was I wrong. ...

Here is the latest update on my breeding system. You can find the initial post here. http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...breeding-setup

The breeding set up now running with water and the broodstock is in place. Here are the latest pics of the broodstock and system.

Broodstock tanks and growout



Larval System

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Hello everyone!,

My name is Tal, AKA: fishtal. I live in Michigan and I got back into the hobby in early 2006. I soon found my way to MASM.org, the Marinelife Aquarium Society of MI. Each year MASM hosts the Midwest Marine Conference. At the 2008 Conference I met Frank Marini who talked about captive breeding and got hooked. A week later I started turning a spare room into a breeding room.

Later in 2008 I attended MACNA in Atlanta and met Matt Wittenrich and eventually ...