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  1. A few recent pictures

  2. Visiting SWFMAS last Saturday

  3. Frags from Florida

  4. Day 68: The latest changes

    After having my new fish in quarantine for 10 days with no sign of illness, I decided it was best to move them into my reef tonight. During the QT period, one Chromis died early on, and yesterday one of the Helfrichi firefish was found dead and tattered. Since I'm about to fly out to Florida to speak to a club there, I didn't want to risk it with all those fish in a small water volume and no-one to change the water daily. All the fish were quick to eat at every feeding session, so they can hold ...
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  5. Remember to clean your skimmer pump(s).

    My Euroreef skimmer has two Eheim 1262 pumps on it. When I have to clean the collection cup, I turn off one pump and leave the other running. I do the same thing if the cup is overflowing, because within the body of the skimmer, foam builds up with all kinds of dreck. Once the cup is clean, I start the second pump and all that stuff is immediately exported.

    Today I did just that, I turned off one pump and noticed how the body of the skimmer was full of water and very little bubbles. ...
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