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  1. B1N4RY's 8 Gallon Reef Aquarium - Thursday, July 18, 2013.

    So living in an apartment in the Bronx is not really conducive in my opinion to setting up the incredibly large reef aquarium of my dreams. So instead of staying out of the hobby cold turkey, I decided that I would challenge myself a bit by setting up an 8 gallon pico reef aquarium in my dining room. until I can no longer stand the urge and decide to go bigger. So I'm curious to see where this goes.

    So I found a suitable location for the aquarium in the dining room just behind our ...
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  2. Fast forward to today.Tank is 4 months old.

  3. Sudden storm, and then powerless for half a day

    It's been a busy week for me as I prepare for my upcoming trips, care for customer orders, club business, and more. Yesterday afternoon, my area was hit with a 'microburst' storm. I saw a few raindrops on my windshield as I was heading home, and maybe 30 minutes later it was crazy outside. The wind was huge, the trees' branches were swaying hard, there was white mist going every direction, then pea-sized hail came down for a few minutes. It rained really hard and fast, and the storm then passed, ...
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  4. Goodbye, 75!

    Well, it's time for my 75 to go. I'm recently engaged and now I'm moving into a real house, but only for a year. Since I don't want to set up that big just to move it again, I put off my plans to go bigger and decided to go smaller. But before I go there.... The last picture I posted of my tank. Now, it's in shambles as I've cleared quite a bit out to friends.....
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  5. I pulled out the 50mm lens

    Should that be a 5cm lens? Anyway, the 50mm lens has a very tight f/stop and thus can be great for taking pictures of fish because the shutter speed is greater. That being said, it doesn't guarantee success. I took about 80 pictures yesterday and only liked about 15. Normally if I shoot 80 pictures, 75 are serious contenders for sharing. Here are the ones I liked of three subjects: Spock my Naso tang; the male Lyretail Anthias; and the Flame Angel.

    Spock - She has ...