New Additions

For some reason, I can't seem to get enough fish for my tank, but I'm putting my foot down and stopping the madness.

Two weeks ago, I added the 30 Chromis plus the two little clowns you saw in my frag tank. Then last Friday I received 19 fish from ORA that I acclimated directly into my tank since I had to fly out to SoCal for Reefapalooza. I couldn't expect my tank sitter to care for them in a small cube holding 14g of water with no active filtration.

Then yesterday ...

Hey friends,

So last night a local reefer posted coral for sale on the local forum, i jumped on the opportunity and bought 2 colonys and 2 frags. This brings the total up to 19 new pieces of coral in the last 3weeks my sand bed is getting extremely full! im acclimating now i will have pics up once everything is in the tank im going to need help with ID as we werent sure what one of the corals is.

teal/green acro
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So today our local reef club had its monthly meeting, I gave a slide show presentation on carbon dosing, which was segwayed into the raffle where the grand prize was a BRS Bio Pellet Reactor and Pellet Combo Pack (Donated by BRS). Out of all the other raffled items this one had the most tickets, I tossed 10 tickets in the pot knowing full well my chances were very slim because there were guys tossing 30+ tickets in the pot. But low and behold my number was called and I walked away with the grand ...

So here are a few pictures from the stuff I brought home from CRASE, as promised. Some (or most) of the Chromis. The tank now has 36 in it.




The corals were given a 24 hour Interceptor bath, then a 10+ minute dip in ReVive. The corals were then moved to my frag tank.



Plenty of dry food for a while.

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I just got home less than an hour ago. We (DFWMAS members) had a great time at CRASE in Oklahoma City, seeing the members from the club up there and talking about next year's MACNA to them. I had the opportunity to meet up with many friends, like Joe Yaiullo (from the Altantis Aquarium in Long Island and runs the 20,000g reef), Laura Birenbaum (who works at Acan Lighting now and who was on RA's podcast and in one of our videos), Tony Vargas (who recently released his new book via all the social ...