Tank Entry

Let me start off with a random happening first of all. When I was cleaning the filter socks a few weeks ago, I dumped the bleach-water solution out on the deck. Well, it appears that a squirrel was under the deck since his entire body is now white while his tail is bushy brown still. Crazy, but true.



At MACNA, I got my very first plastic jug. All these years I've used the water cooler bottles, so this ...

just a little walk though of the coral since I can seem to take very good pics

My wife's cousin joined the military a few years ago and left his aquarium for his parents to care for. However, his parents wanted nothing to do with taking care of it. Soooo... when I heard that I could acquire a 125 gallon tank, stand, sump, skimmer, powerheads, and lighting for free; I jumped on the opportunity! All I had to do was rent a trailer, break it down, and transport 2 hours to my house.

It was July and the hottest day of the year. Luckily, I didn't have to carry stuff ...

My Beaked Leather Jackets (that is what the Australians call them vs. Orange Spotted File Fish the Americans call them, I like the Aussie name better) continue to do very well. They eat mysis, nutramar ova, flake food, and even sera marin granules. I thought I would take a few quick pictures.

This is what they did to my pocillopora.

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Well, we finally got internet access back last night so I thought that I would update the group on my reef’s status and how it made out with a 9 day power outage caused by Hurricane Irene that swept the east coast a few weeks ago. I was prepared only with a D battery operated air pump, air stone and a turkey baster thinking that this would suffice. I was wrong.

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